Aug 28 ,1997                               
HOLD AND MODIFY
  I like HAM
3:11 am
    --- 3 am, I'm eating a ham dinner. With orange juice! Ham has got no caffeine? Check. Today I was offered the remainder of a gigantic chocolate chip cookie, which I had to refuse. Because chocolate has caffeine in it. It's starting to appear like I have an allergy or something. "Want some of this?" "I dunno...does it have any caffeine in it?" As predicted, I'm getting grouchy and withdrawn (more than "usual") and annoying all my friends. I'm also drawing evil caffeine industry propaganda designed to wear away at my will and strap me firmly back into the caffeine monkey slave machine. Ha! Like Nancy Reagan says, "Just say NO".

    Hey Andrew! Karen gave us some of this gourmet biscotti. ".....nnn....no." We're all going down to 7-11 to get soda! "nuh. no." Whee! These pain relievers are just tops with their caffeine additive! "nnnnnnnno...."

    It's been kind of a grumpy day all around. I'm back at home, having sat around with my friends (who were all drunk) feeling very straight-edge. I don't want to join any armies of loonies, though. I want the freedom to contradict myself anytime I decide to. Flaky, ne? Well, like I said. There's a difference between knowing you can do something and actually doing it. Sometimes, I just want to know I can.

  What was today like?
    --- Today was like being stationary in different locations. First, I sat still at home. Then, I moved out to "Super Donut". Brandon was there. We both went to Cascade (Kris' workplace) and sat still. Finally, we went to Kris' house and sat still until he got off work. After that, it was mostly alternating between being still in the kitchen and still in his room, as everyone else boozed up.

    When everyone else is having fun, and you're sitting there motionless in the corner, you appear to be angry. If your friends are sufficiently paranoid and respectful of you, they start wondering if it is THEM you're mad at. My friends who are guys don't usually say or do anything about it at the time. My friends who are women will usually start giving me these weird looks, and take me aside later and say "are you mad about something?" I guess that's a side effect of not having seperate facial expressions for "blank" and "angry". Maybe I should work on different expressions to do. It would take a while to associate them with the appropriate moods. I would have to think to myself "Okay..angry. Make angry face!" For a few months. Bah, forget that. No one needs to know exactly how I'm feeling. My business. Mine!

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