Day 2 (8/31/2002)

Today’s soundtrack: Wake up Wake up! Woah Woah!

Today at 9:02pm: Stomache's renacting the iraqi war, popped in a few charcoals for special effect.


Today was one of those days whereit’s not enough for me to sit around and listen to Elvis or Def Leppard tracks. I hate this feeling: I don’t want to go out, but I don’t want to stay home.


Restlessness is marginally tolerable as a college student but outright nefarious in your early 20s. Still trying to get a handle on adulthood.


In my early 20s I never owned a couch and had no use for one; I was constantly busy with work or zealously conducting my social life. Now I’ve got a couch, and today after snooker I collapsed into it. Watched The Simpsons, thankful for the cheap laughs, and fell asleep before the end of the episode. Only a fucking Tuesday and I’m already out of gas.


How do MP3s get mislabeled? I’ve downloaded Queen tracks misleadingly labeled “Roy Orbison,” John Denver as “Elvis Costello,” etc. Do these errors occur at the time of ripping, or does some misguided revisionist rename and redistribute them?


Not that I’m complaining. My philosophy is, when you’re getting something for free, you shut your yap and either eat it or don’t. Which is why I think people who complain about FREEopendiary services or other people’s blogs are retarded. Eat it or don’t. And bring your plates to the sink.


The Brats(my three 11 yr old tuition kids) have some teacher's day celebration, so I won’t be going in the rest of this week. Most people would be excited to have 2/5ths of the week off, I’m not because it means I’ll get zilch.


To offset this I’ve got to make sure I have a productive 2 days. Working on finishing these journals, with all the torturous self-doubt and second-guessing that entails. I hope I can get something out, anything. You know what the writer’s curse is? When you’re busy, you wish you had more time to write; and when you’re free, you can’t write a damn thing.