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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Sucky Lives

perspiciens's picture
Submitted by perspiciens on November 25, 2008 - 18:25.

Why does everything have to suck all at once?

I mean:

I know life isn't all bad. I have friends who make me smile; I have the best S.O. in the world; my family loves me; my teachers care; we have Barack Obama for freakin' president elect!

But I can't ever focus on those things - not when all the sucky things just mob you and take you down. It's like they shield you from all the good things in the world so that you... I don't know.

Damn it.

Usagi's picture

Aw,

Submitted by Usagi on November 25, 2008 - 18:35.

Aw, Perspekitikiten (not just gg!), how very horribly true.

Spazz's picture

I know....

Submitted by Spazz on November 25, 2008 - 20:02.

I know, I hate it. Those moments when you feel like throwing something at the wall. When things suck, everything sucks. It's those moments when someone asks you "What's wrong? Are you alright?" You want to answer, but you're just at a loss of words....If that makes any sense...
~Spazz.

ggevalt's picture

Pardon?

Submitted by ggevalt on November 25, 2008 - 23:56.

So what, exactly, sucks about your life right now? You've told me all the things that don't suck but never wrote about the things that are bringing you down...

Lose your hat?
Dog bite your ankle?
Someone mispronounce your name?

cheers
gg

perspiciens's picture

G2G2

Submitted by perspiciens on November 26, 2008 - 08:58.

Ha ha. Just little things like my teacher giving me poor grades for stuff I'm working really hard on, not getting other homework done because I'm working hard for the "hard" class and I'm doing well in all the others (but not getting homework done bothers me), having to spend Thanksgiving with my grandmother (whom I really don't care for at all), not having my own mode of transportation and therefore not being able to hang out with some friends who live relatively far away, an ex-boyfriend who showed up at work and started asking my about my love-life, my mom yelling at me because she's tired, not having yummy food in the house, a friend (possibly friends) who are leaving at the end of this year, my dad having to get shoulder surgery for the second time... stuff like that.

-pur·spikk·inns- *sorry for the poor quality of the name this time...*
ASAP: Affluent Students Aspiring for Perspicacity

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