Archive for November, 2006

My Personal Productivity Report

It’s getting late and I’m only running off of five hours of sleep from last night. I managed to do absolutely nothing productive tonight, with the exception of watch Thank You For Smoking and talk to Jared via IM.

Ironically, my lack of productivity tonight actually constitutes as being productive in my world. So unproductively-productive that I wasted almost an hour on Line Rider trying to get the little dude to do loops without falling or crashing. That’s what I call effective self-management.

Breakfast

Ah, yes. This morning was calm and comforting. I prepared some toast and yogurt to start the day off right. This would be the first breakfast at home that I’ve had in a while. As I took my first bite of my peanut butter toast…

[Scratch, scratch]

What the…?

[Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch]

Why is it that everytime I try to enjoy some food of my own, the cat finds it a suitable time to take a shit? Any other time during the day I never see him in there, but as soon as I put anything edible in my hand there he is getting ready to drop a deuce! Seriously, I can do without the rather unpleasant dining fragrance!

But this was no ordinary crap! This was a steamy, ears-back shit that even a fly wouldn’t go near. Needless to say, the area was quite unstable so I ended up eating the rest of my breakfast outside before going to work. I knew there was a reason that I started skipping breakfast in the mornings. Thanks for the pleasant reminder, kitty.

Your Own Disaster

The same song plays over and over again. Four minutes and forty-eight seconds of Taking Back Sunday fills the room in a constant echo. Why does everything seem so unhappy? Why does everything feel so burned out and pointless? Everyone says there’s hope. They always say that there’s meaning behind it all…but I can never seem to grasp it. It feels like a constant spin of anger and depression, maybe a day or two of false happiness, then back to hell again.

Just think of this and me
As just a few of the many things
To lie around
To clutter up your shelves
And I wish you weren’t worth the wait
Cause there’s some things
I’d like to say to you

When there’s something in your life that you want to change, it’s up to you to change it. Other people might influence you or maybe you want to impress somebody, but ultimately it is you that makes the change. So what extent should you go to just to make something different in your life? Do you tear everything down and start over from scratch? Do you take your time, manipulating things piece by piece? What if you hate yourself, or the decisions that you’ve made? What if you’ve changed your world so much that you hate it even worse than you did before? Do you try again? Do you keep going and hope that you make it better? What if it keeps getting worse? We always know exactly what we want, and we do whatever we can just to get it. But once we have it there’s always something else we want even more.

No I don’t think that you know
What you’ve been missing
No I don’t think that you know
What you’ve been missing…

Why do we follow dreams that will never come true? Why can’t we learn from our mistakes? Maybe it’s best if we just stop getting in the way of our own destiny. Maybe it’s best if we just stop trying altogether…

Hey lush, have fun. It’s the weekend.
Hey lush, have fun.
Hey lush, have fun. It’s the weekend.
Hey lush, have fun…

Today’s Headlines

While living in Brevard County, Florida, your best source of quality local news comes from the Florida Today newspaper. I signed up for the online news notifications not because I wanted to stay up to date with current events, but because I needed a good laugh from day-to-day. I don’t think that the news stories are intended to be humorous, but how can they not with headlines like these:

It almost makes the news worth reading, doesn’t it?