My new personal blog!
Waiting for Dave to Finish a Paper...
Me: I'm going to fucking murder you kid.
Dave: Do it faggot then you'll never get your coupons.
Day 1
It’s been a full day without Facebook. This really isn’t that hard. I’m probably only saying that because I’ve been busy as hell lately between work and school and running, but as for right now Facebookless life isn’t too bad. I’ve been tweeting whenever I feel the need to make a status but to be honest I find twitter boring to use so I just tweet and go. No hanging around like there was on Facebook. Anyway, that’s that.
Dear…
Man who just gave me a 4$ tip and had a conversation with me about creepy molester vans: come back soon.
Today:
Go to school
Immediately go to Cross Country Practice
Spend an hour at home
Go to work
Go to bed
YAY LIFE
Day 0
It’s officially the first day of my not using Facebook. After 3+ Years of regular use, it’s strange to not be checking it every 4 minutes. I’m resisting temptation well, let’s hope it lasts.
The people I know who are rebelling meaningfully, you know, don’t buy a lot of stuff and don’t get their view of the world from television and are willing to spend four or five hours researching an election rather than going by commercials. The thing about it is, in America, we think of rebellion as this really sexy thing that involves action and force and look good and my guess is that the forms of rebellion that will end up changing anything meaningfully here will be very quiet and very individual and probably not all that interesting to look at from the outside. I’m now hoping for less interesting rather than more interesting. Violence is interesting … and rattling sabres and talking about war and demonizing a billion people of a different faith in the world — those are all interesting. Sitting in a chair and really thinking about what this means and why the fact that what I drive might have something to do with how people in other parts of the world feel about me isn’t interesting to anybody else.
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| — | David Foster Wallace (via ratskeleton) |
We’re absolutely dying to give ourselves away to something. To run, to escape, somehow. And there’s some kinds of escape that end up, in a twist, making you confront yourself even more. And then there are other kinds that say, “Give me seven dollars, and in return I will make you forget your…
Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education — least in my own case — is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.
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| — | David Foster Wallace, This is Water (via reenactthatact) |
