{"id":244,"date":"2002-01-28T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-28T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2002\/01\/28\/244\/"},"modified":"2002-01-28T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-28T20:28:00","slug":"244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/01\/244\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon has been slow and depressing. All of it was spent in front of the computer, as I attempted to get work done. It gets worse and <i>worse<\/i> every time I get on the computer&#8230; the more and more I try to do work, the more and more distractions there are. And finally when it comes to doing work, I decide to take a break. And then the cycle repeats. I say to myself, &#8220;okay, I&#8217;ll do some homework <i>off<\/i> of the computer!&#8221; and I end up falling asleep. And no, it&#8217;s not just because I&#8217;m reading <i>The Scarlet Letter<\/i>, I even fall asleep while reading something easy, like <i>Harry Potter<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my sister is a big problem&#8230; I&#8217;m the most educated in math at my mom&#8217;s house, although that&#8217;s not saying much. So here&#8217;s my sister&#8217;s dilemma&#8230; she claims she gets homework that asks questions about things that she hasn&#8217;t learned in class. She goes off on a bitch-fest every time I assume this, but I think that the real problem is that she&#8217;s just not listening in class. Especially since her homework asks similar questions each night. Since I&#8217;m all for truth and justice, I moan and whine almost as much as she does when it comes to helping her, since I think she should find the answers herself, by 1) thinking, 2) reading the math book, or 3) looking at previous math assignments. She&#8217;s too lazy and wants me to do the work for her. And when I still decline, she <i>cries<\/i>. Well, that&#8217;s the downside to being a 6th-grade yuppie.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking advantage of what I refer to as my &#8220;new free time,&#8221; though. Since I&#8217;m not drawing <a HREF=\"http:\/\/midgard.keenspace.com\">Midgard<\/a> anymore, that leads me to believe that I&#8217;ve got all the free time in the world, so I&#8217;ve accepted every MIDI request yet, and I&#8217;ve also agreed to draw (!) an upcoming comic for <a HREF=\"http:\/\/downloadlife.keenspace.com\">Bob<\/a>. So not only will I be doing the same stuff as before, but I&#8217;ll be more stressed because of all of the stuff on my &#8220;To Do&#8221; list. (For all of you reading this, don&#8217;t withdraw your requests in sympathy&#8230; despite my current stress level, I am eager to get all of these projects underway.)<\/p>\n<p>Another giant leap I&#8217;ll make is to reveal my desire for a girlfriend. I&#8217;m lonely. But even more so, I&#8217;m shy. To cover up the fact that I&#8217;m shy, I don&#8217;t pay much attention or respect to people of the opposite gender. I don&#8217;t comb my hair, I don&#8217;t take showers or put on deodorant in the morning (BTW: for all of you locals reading this, don&#8217;t do some stupid &#8220;backing away&#8221; procedure the next time you see me&#8230; it&#8217;s really insulting), and I act like a total fool just to slightly amuse my good friends, at the expense of the general public&#8217;s respect for me. The only good part about it is that I&#8217;m not emotionally in need of a girlfriend. I mean, I just said that I act foolish at school, right? Well, that&#8217;s pretty much unconcious. Although it still shows I&#8217;m shy with girls, It&#8217;s also a sign of being emotionally stable, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I really wish that I didn&#8217;t act so different around people I find possible as girlfriends. I stutter, I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say like I normally do, and I&#8217;m overall boring. But to people of the opposite sex that I just see as friends, I treat them as, well, friends! Ugh. This is just another thing that I have to stop blaming others about, and work on myself, instead. I blame &#8220;society&#8221; and too many other factors on my problems. I don&#8217;t do enough about them. And even stating what I <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> do isn&#8217;t going to get me to work on <i>doing<\/i> them, either. It&#8217;s just going to be a slow process of self-help.<\/p>\n<p>Ah&#8230; it feels good to actually make a serious blog for once, that shows actual emotion and doesn&#8217;t use any of my dopey humor cliches to get a rise out of my readers. I refrain from just ranting most of the time since I don&#8217;t want to be told to &#8220;feel happier and better,&#8221; like I do to many people who have dilemmas more often. It&#8217;s just insecurity about voicing my own feelings. And the worst part: when I&#8217;m feeling lighter and more jolly later, I&#8217;ll look at posts like these and tell myself that I complain too much about the little things. Well, that&#8217;s what personal sites are for, aren&#8217;t they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon has been slow and depressing. All of it was spent in front of the computer, as I attempted to get work done. It gets worse and worse every time I get on the computer&#8230; the more and more I try to do work, the more and more distractions there are. 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