Today was a repeat of yesterday. It's awesome. I've put off grocery shopping to the point where I have only pasta and sauce left. Tomorrow I will get shit done, I tell myself. I don't understand this lack of ambition.
I'm wary of whose eyes are seeing this right now. Daisy did a dumb thing and exposed this blog to eyes I wouldn't normally have wanted on it. I never advertised this to anyone I knew. I started this with the understanding that strangers would read it, and that was comforting. Anything but the social circle I was stuck in at the time. Readers became friends, and that was okay. Friends did not become readers. I spent a few days reading everything I wrote here in chronological order. I gave up somewhere in 2006 but stopped myself from deleting a lot of stuff. A lot, but not all. I don't feel bad about that either. I'm not done, and soon I'll get through the rest of it with a scalpel and be satisfied.
While cleaning out my bookshelf I found my old journal that was purchased for me by my dad while I was in 5th grade to improve my handwriting. Everyday he would check it to make sure I wrote in it so it's full of bullshit entries that I kept up until he got bored and forgot to check anymore. When teenagerdom hit it actually got used more often, but mostly when I was going through the bullshit emotional trauma of the time. In highschool there a large lull and then after that it was only used when I was going through what I felt was major shit. All that said, there is a good chunk of it torwards the end that is still empty.
So I found this relic of brain vomit and opened to a few random pages. The words on the page were still fresh in my mind, and I hated that. So I destroyed it. Page after page came out in my hands to be ripped in half and then quarters and then eighths if I felt like it. Some of the pages stayed in tact because I just didn't feel like ripping shit up. I left a few scattered entries in what is now a tattered hardcover with the strings hanging out and a bunch of loose pages tucked back inside.
The garbage bag went into the dumpster and that was that. Goodbye memory.
And bit by bit, I want the rest of my brain to be cleaned.