L-dawg's Journal: plunge into darkness

For some reason, the Bay Area decided to hit the 90s this weekend. How nice to have something immediate and inconsequential to complain about. I kept the weekend very chill, which to some of you, may be synonymous with boring. Bought my season tix for Cal basketball, did the Sunday Taiwan Restaurant ritual with jo, tange, and bossy. Presently am caffeinated and unfocused and bored as ever. I hate that.

Finished Wind Up Bird Chronicle this morning. I think I was expecting too much. It really was the first couple of Murakami books I read that had the greatest impact. Still, it was good. btw: have you seen the new amazon.com search that searches in the FULL TEXT OF THE BOOK? bossy pointed it out to me today. Way cool.

I came to a realization that some of my closest friends are my most exasperating friends. I mean exasperating on a daily, hourly, possibly minute or second basis. What does that mean? I like to be exasperated? I like people who don't mind being exasperating? (Because they know it.) I guess they are the ones that don't let me get away with things, and remind me that it's not all about me, and push me out of my nice, safe, comfort zone where I'm in control.

Two thoughts:

Competence. So nice in theory, so hard to achieve.

Posting web content is like pissing on so many internet trees.

It's not even 9pm and despite the caffeine I want to go to bed more than anything. Tired of many things. Sigh.

familiarity breeds contempt

[nofungusamongus]

perhaps the glory days of SNL are returning as Tina Fey had this to say in a new yorker article [newyorker.com]:

"Girls are capable of spending a lot of time with someone and hating them,"

hate !=

[L-dawg]

Perhaps I should elaborate. There must be some distinction between "good" exasperation and "bad" exasperation. I guess there must be a difference between "good" hate and "bad" hate too. Girls hate a lot of things though.

that's what friends are for

[nofungusamongus]

hate n.:
1. a. An emotion of extreme dislike or aversion; detestation, abhorrence, hatred.

exasperation n.:
1.The action of exasperating or provoking to anger; embittering; intense provocation; an instance of this. Also, a cause or means of exasperating.
2. The condition of being exasperated or intensely irritated; exasperated feeling, violent passion or anger; an instance of this.

with friends like these, who needs enemies. :-/

EXASPERATION

[L-dawg]

You are exasperating me, I know how to use a dictionary, STUPID!!!!!! ARRRRRGFGGGGHHHHHHHHH! And /. can go to hell because it just told me not to use so many caps because it's like YELLING, and didn't let my comment go through the "lameness filter" when I had capitalized the whole thing. I __AM__ YELLING!!! /. is LAME! the computer just called me lame... THIS IS _MY_ BLOG. aarrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh. ARRGHH.

I think I have made my point. Thank you.