Growing Up In a World of Social Humiliation
I have been working out like crazy lately. Ten days straight as of today! Unbelievable, I just can never motivate myself to go enough, but since I am so bored when I'm sitting around in the house I've had a reason to go to the club. The treadmill has always been my worst enemy, but not now! Friday I ran 2.21 miles, yesterday I ran 2.11 miles, and today I ran 2.6 miles! I always would just barely get to 1.5 miles, panting and shit. I have now been hitting my second wind when I get to the 1.5 miles. That second wind is exhilirating!
I was sitting around watching TV and some of the most pointless commercials came on. One was a baby talking and another was a motorcycle just rushing by making a ton of noise. Neither commercial made any sense at all for what they were advertising. That seems to be where we are at. People will just be pulled in by anything. Ooh, a motorcycle, how cool, I'll buy that product. Ooh, how funny, a talking baby, how clever, I'll buy that product. What the fuck?! And again when I was working out there was some news story about kidnappings or something and they were treating the story like a thriller movie. How disgusting.
So I went with my mom to turn in a couple more job applications and people were just crazy. Drivers were driving nuts. Slow, moving from lane to lane with little regard, taking up the entire lane of the parking lots, nearly running into us. Who taught these people how to drive. Anyways, when we got to Tower Books there was this guy in suspenders talking to the guy at the information desk (a little bit to loudly if i may say so myself). He was asking where to find self-help tapes. It was kinda sad. I am so not used to seeing that. Either things have changed drastically since I left, or I am seeing things that I was blind to before. I saw the same guy as we were pulling out of the parking lot. We had to stall for a couple seconds because he walked right behind the car, unaware of us.
Finally my closet is clean. Me and my mom cleaned it out this afternoon. There was so much old stuff. I was quite nostalgic. So many good, old memories of childhood. I found a book report from middle school, marble works, bath toys. Spiders were everywhere! I couldn't believe how brave my mom was. She was just like "get over it" and she sucked 'em up with the vacuum without flinching. I am usually fine with spiders, but these things had bulb butts and were black. I don't care how small they were or if they were not really black widows!
When we went to Tower my mom bought me the companion book to The Giver. I'm thinking I'm gonna read that until Harry Potter comes. And yes, you heard correctly, Max is gonna read on his own time. I am that scared of boredom. I also got Entertainment magazine and a magazine called MovieMaker (both of which I am planning to get a subscription to so I can have something to do).
I watched an episode of the Simpsons this evening that parodied Wal Mart with the name Sprawl Mart. In the episode there was a banner on the front of the store that said "Don't Watch 60 Minutes Tonight". They threatened to deport Homer back to Mexico for trying to quit as an executive manager of in-store welcoming. And refused to give him a raise as he gained top positions in the in-store welcome chain. Take that Wal Mart! You bastards.
I was sitting around watching TV and some of the most pointless commercials came on. One was a baby talking and another was a motorcycle just rushing by making a ton of noise. Neither commercial made any sense at all for what they were advertising. That seems to be where we are at. People will just be pulled in by anything. Ooh, a motorcycle, how cool, I'll buy that product. Ooh, how funny, a talking baby, how clever, I'll buy that product. What the fuck?! And again when I was working out there was some news story about kidnappings or something and they were treating the story like a thriller movie. How disgusting.
So I went with my mom to turn in a couple more job applications and people were just crazy. Drivers were driving nuts. Slow, moving from lane to lane with little regard, taking up the entire lane of the parking lots, nearly running into us. Who taught these people how to drive. Anyways, when we got to Tower Books there was this guy in suspenders talking to the guy at the information desk (a little bit to loudly if i may say so myself). He was asking where to find self-help tapes. It was kinda sad. I am so not used to seeing that. Either things have changed drastically since I left, or I am seeing things that I was blind to before. I saw the same guy as we were pulling out of the parking lot. We had to stall for a couple seconds because he walked right behind the car, unaware of us.
Finally my closet is clean. Me and my mom cleaned it out this afternoon. There was so much old stuff. I was quite nostalgic. So many good, old memories of childhood. I found a book report from middle school, marble works, bath toys. Spiders were everywhere! I couldn't believe how brave my mom was. She was just like "get over it" and she sucked 'em up with the vacuum without flinching. I am usually fine with spiders, but these things had bulb butts and were black. I don't care how small they were or if they were not really black widows!
When we went to Tower my mom bought me the companion book to The Giver. I'm thinking I'm gonna read that until Harry Potter comes. And yes, you heard correctly, Max is gonna read on his own time. I am that scared of boredom. I also got Entertainment magazine and a magazine called MovieMaker (both of which I am planning to get a subscription to so I can have something to do).
I watched an episode of the Simpsons this evening that parodied Wal Mart with the name Sprawl Mart. In the episode there was a banner on the front of the store that said "Don't Watch 60 Minutes Tonight". They threatened to deport Homer back to Mexico for trying to quit as an executive manager of in-store welcoming. And refused to give him a raise as he gained top positions in the in-store welcome chain. Take that Wal Mart! You bastards.