05.08.2006 or "Idle Hands"
Man, I know today was my day off and all but if inactivity makes one this depressed I would rather have been at work today. I woke up around 12 with that awful feeling like your skin is going to peel off your body. From what I have gathered this happens when you forget to shower the night before and you sleep with the AC on full blast all night. This occurance is usually accompanied by complete and utter stomach malfunction and a sense that you really shoudlnt have got out of bed today. So once I had showered and dressed I sat down and felt all new and exciting layers of sweat forming within minutes. Around 1pm I knew I had to eat otherwise I would not move at all, all day so I cooked some ramen. After this I decided that the best course of action to save the day was to go play taiko.
I instantly regretted the idea when my brain put together the fact that it was a saturday and that the arcade would be packed. Nevertheless I persisted and played like utter crap and and was constatly battling people for a place on the machine. Some girl kept putting more and more money into the machine and then shouting something in Chinese whenever anyone came near the adjacent area. To be fair I think there was something wrong with her brain, but still, she played better than me and I wasn't in the most sympathetic of moods. After my second awful game I just couldn't get my arms to do what my brain was telling them and I thought it was because I wasn't awake yet. So I headed down a couple floors and bought a can of coffee, "Mr Brown" brand, not a touch on Suntory Boss but I pretty sure they dont sell that outside of Japan.
Heading back up, I felt my knees were going to give way and my stomach, not half full from the ramen felt soulless and hollow. Again, after watching two guys who had clearly been playing it for years deftly kick ass on the machine (the worst possible act to follow) I tried my hand once again. First song: I picked the wrong song and ended up losing! :O I could'nt beleive it, this is almost unheard of and I felt incredibly folorn, luckily I managed to win another round of redemtion on the wheel of fate but just whacked out a lack luster and by this point pretty sorry looking performance. I dropped the sticks back on the plinth and vowed never to play the game again!
And all this on what is meant to be my day off. I came home and figured that the anger which had been building throughout the day just needed to be chanelled into something productive, such as work but it seems like the anger beast is no match for the apathy beast on days like this so I just sat sweating, angry and exhausted in my chair and waited for my girlfriend to come home. We sat down and watched the Nana movie. Then I used the net, and that brings us up to speed on my pointless uphill struggle of a day. Every movement or idea has been met with a force of equal resistance. I guess that pretty acurately describes your typical run of the mill bad day.
Still, I dont mind writing it off as such. For the remaining hours of the day I plan to escape into some playstation and let my brain shut off.
I instantly regretted the idea when my brain put together the fact that it was a saturday and that the arcade would be packed. Nevertheless I persisted and played like utter crap and and was constatly battling people for a place on the machine. Some girl kept putting more and more money into the machine and then shouting something in Chinese whenever anyone came near the adjacent area. To be fair I think there was something wrong with her brain, but still, she played better than me and I wasn't in the most sympathetic of moods. After my second awful game I just couldn't get my arms to do what my brain was telling them and I thought it was because I wasn't awake yet. So I headed down a couple floors and bought a can of coffee, "Mr Brown" brand, not a touch on Suntory Boss but I pretty sure they dont sell that outside of Japan.
Heading back up, I felt my knees were going to give way and my stomach, not half full from the ramen felt soulless and hollow. Again, after watching two guys who had clearly been playing it for years deftly kick ass on the machine (the worst possible act to follow) I tried my hand once again. First song: I picked the wrong song and ended up losing! :O I could'nt beleive it, this is almost unheard of and I felt incredibly folorn, luckily I managed to win another round of redemtion on the wheel of fate but just whacked out a lack luster and by this point pretty sorry looking performance. I dropped the sticks back on the plinth and vowed never to play the game again!
And all this on what is meant to be my day off. I came home and figured that the anger which had been building throughout the day just needed to be chanelled into something productive, such as work but it seems like the anger beast is no match for the apathy beast on days like this so I just sat sweating, angry and exhausted in my chair and waited for my girlfriend to come home. We sat down and watched the Nana movie. Then I used the net, and that brings us up to speed on my pointless uphill struggle of a day. Every movement or idea has been met with a force of equal resistance. I guess that pretty acurately describes your typical run of the mill bad day.
Still, I dont mind writing it off as such. For the remaining hours of the day I plan to escape into some playstation and let my brain shut off.
posted by Aaron | 3:27 AM
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