25 october 2000
mean person

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Something's happening, life is turning weird, too weird, or maybe it's just me going completely bonkers, caught in some warped state of metamorphosis, or "personal growth," and it's turning me into an asshole, someone I really don't like to be around. Add meanness and a short temper to the mix, and I almost feel like voluntarily shooting the chute to self-destruction.

As it stands, I've been managing to systematically alienate all the people who are most important to me. I guess life just wouldn't be normal if I didn't destroy someone's weekend, evening, or most recently, morning with this weird whatever my mind seems to be spewing.

I don't like it when I make people unhappy, or uncomfortable, and yet that's all I seem to be doing lately.

Perhaps the best solution is to hide in a closet, or maybe sequester myself on a remote unpopulated island until this whole weirdness passes, if it will pass at all... Maybe it's just my mind trying to trick me into blaming all of this on quitting smoking, saying that if I go back to smoking, everything will return to normal and I'll be a nice person again. But then I don't feel like smoking now, and at the same time I will be happy to inhale a pack of death, just to make me less of an asshole.

I don't like disliking myself.

Ho-hum.

The Roxy gig is tonight. Come one come all. No, you won't see me in a dress, and up there is the last picture I have of it, rotated 90 degrees for your displeasure, just because I _am_ a mean person, thank you. I'll leave with a cool experience from yesterday, which some have already read....

From: me@gfrblxt.com
Reply-To: amaebi@egroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:11 PM
To: amaebi@egroups.com
Subject: [amaebi] intense

Five minutes ago, I'm sitting at my desk, building our new dynamic content management system, listening to "Low Rider" ...

and there's this huge crash, the walls shook, my posters rattled, the outside doors flew open in unison, and the line of palm trees across the courtyard bent impossibly. It was more intense than the Northridge earthquake, although it lasted less than a second.

Everyone ran outside, simultaneous exclamations of "What the F&%K was that?" Every car alarm in the parking garage was blaring. Of course, our lead programmer had the answer ...

"Sonic Boom ... the space shuttle just flew over."

And it landed at Edwards AFB about five minutes ago.

Wow. Cool.

(no new entry, maybe tonight)

That's about as positive a note I can end on here...

25 october 1999: : on hiatus til december

25 october 1998: : on hiatus til november

25 october 1997: B-3 in a box : ... but first I need to put on some Jimmy Smith ...

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