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The Truth Is…

I’m moving back in with my parents, but I really don’t want to. My family’s more chaotic than I am and I am quieter than they are and more prone to rational discourse over irrational yelling than they are and I’m more sensitive to disruption than they are and all of these differences really get on my nerves after awhile. But this is the best route to getting a car, I guess, which is the only way I’m going to stop feeling like a burden on anyone anymore…

My mother wanted to see Easy A at the theater tonight, but I really didn’t want to. I really have absolutely no desire to see any movie before I see the Deathly Hallows movie. I know that’s irrational and lame, but the prospect of seeing anything else right now simply does not appeal to me, even if I wouldn’t have to pay for my ticket. I simply would not enjoy it and it would therefore be a complete waste of my time and money. My mother’s bashing of Harry Potter doesn’t exactly make me want to please her by NOT seeing Harry Potter, either.

So I somehow managed to make the premise of my friends’ party as the excuse for not going to the movies tonight. But I’m likely not going to that party anyway. I don’t really feel like soliciting anyone for a ride anymore… I just feel like a burden, extra baggage. And my friends I think are not in the place to go out of their way to even ask me, not even Liz, which I understand, considering: my moods the last few times we’ve all been together likely hasn’t made anyone feel like going out of their way to make sure I’m there, either. I am also in a situation where I really have little to nothing to contribute to the party. So yeah, I’d just be a mooch, a burden, and I think this is finally wearing on everyone’s patience. In short, I currently have NO redeeming qualities. And that makes me feel cheap. And I don’t want to grovel and beg for attention or company. I’m kind of tired of trying and doing that sort of thing right now. If they don’t want me, they don’t want me. I can hardly blame them anyway. I should just shrug it off and except my losses and move on, like the cold and rational adult I should be.

It’s a shame, too. I think I would’ve been in a better mood tonight if I could have gone, too, because I actually got a job offer today, and the job’s actually a pretty sweet deal. I was also just generally feeling pretty damn swell most of this day, independent and owning my own life and totally nonchalant (easy breezy, divorced from all of the negative emotions that have been plaguing me on and off for the last couple of years, and whatnot), rational and unable to be brought down, even if I was also far from euphoric as well (admittedly). I kind of reached this happy functional whatever numb place, somewhere in the middle. Like, it felt like nothing could touch me, and I could just float on that delicate emotion long enough so that no other emotions could touch me, hurt me.

But then I got home and the room project didn’t go as planned and my mother woke up and everyone started yelling at each other and meanwhile the the hour for my friends’ party loomed near and I realized that I wasn’t actually going and I realized I wasn’t sure I would be able to keep up the happy momentum from my job offer for the rest of the night anyway. I now (and still, in spite of the job offer) feel pretty damn cheap, worthless, and abandoned… and dammit, it’s just a really shitty, crappy, fucked up kind of feeling for ANYONE to have, sensitive or not.

So my plans for the evening, I guess, are going to be house chores, homework, a few eps of Legend of the Seeker, and maybe some Maple Story. Meanwhile in my mind I’m sometimes wildly contemplating just leaving everything behind once I get my car and my independence. You know, start out fresh, and make it so I don’t bother anyone again. The problem with that is… I just fucking care too damn much for my own good. I don’t know how to bring myself to just… let people go. That’s such an incredibly hard thing to do. For some reason I can’t bear the thought of never talking to them again, especially… especially some people…

Yeah, I could REALLY use a pick-me-up right about now… instead I’m stuck with this feeling that’s halfway between wanting to cry out for help and wanting to just silently fade away and disappear.

I’m just going to try not to think about it.

(Hopefully things will be better next year.)

EDIT: So I’m reaching that cold, numb place again. Maybe I could stay here long enough to get through all this and turn my life around and all that jazz. Who knows? We’ll see.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I kind of want to go clubbing sometime in the next few months. I don’t crave it often but it’s been awhile. Hmm. Dunno.

Like Ice Cream Topped With Honey…

Whelp, faced a few more obstacles/ sources of frustration this morning, but that’s okay.

That’s okay because I’m having a temporary quiet couple of days, school wise.  I just gotta do a little bit of homework and reading over the weekend and that’s it.  Nothing’s due in the immeadiate future.

That’s also okay because what comes out tonight what comes out oh let me think oh it’s HARRY FRIKIN’ POTTER.

So yeah.  I’m gellin’.

Shut. It. UP!

So apparently I like to blow things a bit out of proportion.

Or apparently I treat pending disasters as seriously as I SHOULD treat them… which is how I often manage to make them not quite so big of a deal most of the time. (*knock on wood*)

Don’t know.

Anywho, I still have a home, and a plan, and more prospects, and I filled out more apps, and there was new Aoi Hana to read tonight, and I even took a break to watch one episode of Season Two of LOTS, and in a minute I’m going to go home because tomorrow morning is LIFE JUICE DRAINING FOR CASH and tomorrow night is HARRY FRIKIN’ POTTER and the day after I’M GETTING MY FUCKING TEETH so YOU KNOW WHAT?  Life’s gonna be okay.  :D

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Blowing Up My Cranium

Well, today didn’t go quite as planned, but it wasn’t a complete loss.

I overslept, but I adapted.

I have no money, but I still managed to refill my minutes on my phone (in order to get calls for new jobs, etc., and perhaps the NUMBER ONE thing I needed to get done today) AND feed myself and my cat.

I managed to save enough beef from the soup kitchen to take home and mash up into something Mana would actually eat.  She gobbled it up and was asking for more within thirty minutes.  Currently I am making a fish meal for the two of us, and killing time by jotting down my thoughts for the day (something I am trying to do more often).


EDIT 9pm: Totally made something both Mana and I could eat.  She had fish mashed up with other random vegetables and a little leftover milk.  She gobbled it up (and tomorrow, with luck, I’ll have some money to buy her some real food again).  I took my portion of fish and combined it with corn, leftover sauce (half of which ended up clumsily on my face and shirt), bread crumbs and spices to make an awesome hobo stew.  Really, the right spices can make almost any lame old thing into something almost awesome.  :D  I also have leftovers for tomorrow.  I feel so resourceful!


I had yet another one of those mornings filled with very vivid, instense dreams.  I woke up a few times, but I was hardly myself.  My autopilot self totally ignored my alarms.  Meanwhile, I dreampt I was a teen/young adult in some sort of special boarding school or academy in the French countryside (random?  Or not?).  I even glanced at my schedule at one point, which listed three classes (two of which had something to do with transfolk).  I was fretting in my dream because I was failing all my classes and so I thought I might just get kicked out.  No bueno. 

As a result of all that dreaming, I overslept by a good five hours.  At about a quarter to noon I was suddenly aware enough to know what I had unfortunately done, and frikin’ jumped out of bed like it was on fire… but too late.  I got absolutely NOTHING done before it was time to go to the soup kitchen.  I had to frikin’ rearrange my entire day because of that.  :/

Well, besides a few minor hiccups, I DID manage to get a couple of my top priority items done for the day.  So I guess I’ll just… try again tomorrow.

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