Sept 12 ,1997                               
NOTHING DOING
  XHEAD
11:34 pm
    --- Today was so bland. I didn't want to do anything. Usually, even if I am not doing what I want to do I have an idea, at least, of what I would LIKE to be doing. Today was just spent standing up, leaning my head against the wall because I didn't want to do anything. I went to Kris' house. Brian was there watching TV with Tara (another resident of Poho, a middle aged female) and Kris was washing clothes. They both liked the programming I had done on the 303 earlier this week. They liked it a LOT. In fact, Brian kept playing it over and over. I was in sort of a similiar state of mind while I was programming then, except more musically inclined. I don't want to be with people, I don't want to be alone, I don't really have any human urges right now. I used to wish that I could be free from all needs. Well, this is what it might be like. Sure is dull.

    So, I went back home, just now. I don't want to play video games. I don't want to eat. I could just sit motionless. There's nothing I'd rather be doing, and it doesn't use up much energy. Man, this is even dull to WRITE.

  Truth, Beauty, Beauty, Truth
    --- I'm still annoyed at the idea of beauty. How do we know what is beautiful? Do we learn it as we grow up, or do we automatically know what looks good and what doesn't? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if it's so fucking subjective, how do supermodels make a living? Easy, a huge fraction of the population seems to have the same ideals about beauty. Why aren't there a significant number of people who think blistered purple skin is pretty? Some things are just universally ugly? Kinda makes the "eye of the beholder" cliche sound lamer.

    Hey, calling someone a "work of art" sounds like a compliment. Many works of art are pretty disturbing and fucked up ugly. Art isn't art because it's pretty to look at, I guess. It just has to evoke a reaction, maybe capture a feeling. I could call the monstrous woman who kept sitting next to me on empty buses in Portland a "work of art". She was unique in her awfulness. There are fatter women, but she takes the cake for ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? No it isn't. She was just plain dog ugly. (But how do I know that? Why is that ugly?) (Well for whatever reason, it sure as hell was ugly.) You'd think that being that ugly would result in her developing a lot of character as she grew up. (Attractive people can get by on looks in a lot of situations. Ugly people have to be especially qualified/talented/charming.) Nope, she was gross and rude too. Almost sat on me.

    So I guess today taught me that I don't actually want to be a robot. Being a robot is cool and all (Scud!) but it would also be monumentally dull. Hmm. Maybe I want to catch up on answering my email? Olana sent me some very nice mail, Alan seems to be drunk, and Anita might think I'm upset or something. I'm lousy at conversing, too. Especially the "avoiding insulting people" part. Hence I tend to not say much lest I say TOO much. That's me in the corner.

    Wauuugh! blech blech blech blech

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