Spring Break is over.

Spring break is over, and I've gotten a bunch of stuff done. Yet, it feels like I've accomplished nothing.

One thing I was hoping to do was to update this journal more frequently, although that seems to have fallen through.

I did get my prom shopping done though, which was a plus, and I got to spend time with a favorite person.

Anyway, I have very little else to write about. Maybe I should start rethinking my rethinking.

Never to know.

I fail to understand why I feel this way. I've never felt such a striking need to leave the solitude of my house. I went out prom shopping today, and it utterly changed me.

Maybe it wasn't the socializing or the shopping or the food or the discount tobacco that made it great. Maybe it was her. I still have no idea why I find her so fascinating, so charming, so utterly befuddling. Yet, I do.

It's probably meaningless adolescent infatuation, but I love being around her.

Not that I love her romantically, of course. It would be foolish to make such assumptions about someone based on my experiences around her. Something though, draws me to her. I doubt she would ever feel the same way in my presence, but it's still nice to pretend that she might.

The tea is fueling this, so I'm out.

Of Watchmen and the human condition

It's easy to forget that we are suffocating. Suffocating ourselves. Society is like one of those plastic bags that covers children's toys. We see the warnings, yet we stick our head in anyway, unable to understand why we are suffocating.

I walked into a showing of Watchmen to have two women publicly start a verbal conflict outside the theater. The human condition has never seemed more debased. It wasn't a fight about anything meaningful, but one of the spiteful conditions that defines humanity.

The idea of always being right. We humans cannot fathom being wrong, so we cultivate all sorts of situations to make us seem right. The thought that everyone might be wrong, or everyone might be right is just so indescribably alien to most people in our society that it cannot propagate. A meme that's rings true with Night Owl's impotency. Why does society allow patterns like this to exist?

Because society is a masochist.

The Woes of Being Wrong

So, recently, I've had to own up to the fact that I am a careless monster. A careless monster that endlessly quotes Aristotle, drinks tea, and plays sudoku in between bouts of kicking puppies and stealing joy from orphans.

There's a girl, who, for lack of better terminology, I despise. Yet, she feels the need to constantly follow me everywhere I go, message me on various social networking sites, and indict me as an asshole. She then proceeds to tear apart my crazy feelings for a different a girl as if to fleetingly say, "Hey, this chick despises you, so be with me!" The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and the despiser who loves the despised while despising the despised's despiser is not one who is loved.

Long story short, I'm in the market for a pretend significant other until this thing blows over.

I try not to be evil, and yet I always seem to have to be the bad guy. Sometimes being human is too much of a chore.

Poetry because I'm lazy.

When you make a clockwork girl
She needs the perfect gears
Ones of beaten gold or
Ones of polished brass?

A clockwork girl is perfect
An engineer's delight
Her face of sculpted porcelain
Her eyes of stoic glass

The clockwork girl adoréd
Is quite a sight to see
Perfect hair and a perfect face
An artist's dream to dream

But does a clockwork girl dream?
No man can truly say
To that I must remark
Of tin and solder, a heart is never made

No man has oil blood
No doll yet draws a breath
I'll always know one thing
I'll always dream for she




Pretty subpar, but I enjoyed writing it. The concept of mechanical women coming in to replace our biological ones is incredibly intriguing to me.

Plus, delicious dolljoints.

Sometimes

I think the world is filled with all sorts of spirits and gods. It certainly makes life much more interesting. I also like to believe these spirits and such manifest themselves in ordinary, mundane ways just to further mess with us.

For instance, I only ever write something when I've had a stiff cup of tea. Maybe there is some god or goddess of tea who rewards my allegorical sacrifice by becoming my muse.

Or maybe I'm just crazy and want to fill up the number of blog entries I have.



Yeah, apparently there's a sage devoted to tea. Maybe I'm not so crazy after all.

How to Fuck Up Your Daughter

1. Make every attempt to alienate and isolate said daughter from the outside world.

2. Spread weaponry around the house with threats to use it should anyone "interfere".

3. Threaten anyone who attempts to make any sort of contact with said daughter.

4. Attempt to obstruct said daughter's ascent into adulthood by treating her like a petulant child.

5. Be a complete hypocrite and coward.

Yeah, I'm bitter, and diary-ing. Actual post to come.