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What Can't You Learn
Hey there, all...
Today is the day that I'm going to get the blasted New Age section together. No, I really mean it. Don't try to stop me! The whole aisle will be hell for a little bit, but that's the price people will have to pay for increased ease of browsing later on. Damnit.
My wisdom teeth are coming in. Every two or three weeks I'll get this weird sensation of pressure in my bottom set of teeth, and every time the...level of the gummy bumps in back will get a bit higher. This time 'round, the gum has split on the right side, even though I can't feel teeth. I'm wondering if I should be worried; it hasn't been particularly painful so far, but my bottom teeth are pretty crowded as is. One tooth is slipping behind the others...hmm. I can't *really* afford a dentist, and I don't think the free clinic does extractions any more, and is it really worth the pain and disorientation for several days? I'll hold back until things get really bad, I guess.
I have to head down to the State revenue Office tomorrow to get a new driver's liscence. I discovered while I was in Florida that my driver's liscence wasn't my own. The fellow who's ID I do have lives here in Fayetteville, and I've been trying to call his house for the longest time with no answer. I think I'll just mail it back to him if this keeps up. Anywho, I need to pick up some state tax forms, too, and see about getting my learner's permit. This weekend, if I can manage it, I'm going to pay a bit more off on the car. At least fifty dollars. The slow crawl towards having my own vehicle continues...
Oh, I started "We" today! It's pretty interesting so far, and I actually see the *appeal* of OneState, the way that Zamyatin writes about it. It's pretty odd how he keeps slipping in jabs to the idea of freedom as primitive, savage and chaotic. While symmetry is nice, I don't think I'd be very comfortable with it as the final progression of mankind. The society of OneState, though, at least through the eyes of D-503, has a wide-eyed optimism about it, and his enthusiasm for his ideals is perhaps what appeals to me more than the ideal itself. He's a genuinely likable Number. I wish people could get that revved up about what's happening to America today. Whatever happened to optimistic vigilance? The more I think about it, the more I think the apathetic deserve whatever happens to them, and if that means the price they pay for their apathy is a slow degradation to history repeating itself, so be it.
Mmm, that's not a very charitable mindset, is it? <:) Eek. I have to go to work!
Today is the day that I'm going to get the blasted New Age section together. No, I really mean it. Don't try to stop me! The whole aisle will be hell for a little bit, but that's the price people will have to pay for increased ease of browsing later on. Damnit.
My wisdom teeth are coming in. Every two or three weeks I'll get this weird sensation of pressure in my bottom set of teeth, and every time the...level of the gummy bumps in back will get a bit higher. This time 'round, the gum has split on the right side, even though I can't feel teeth. I'm wondering if I should be worried; it hasn't been particularly painful so far, but my bottom teeth are pretty crowded as is. One tooth is slipping behind the others...hmm. I can't *really* afford a dentist, and I don't think the free clinic does extractions any more, and is it really worth the pain and disorientation for several days? I'll hold back until things get really bad, I guess.
I have to head down to the State revenue Office tomorrow to get a new driver's liscence. I discovered while I was in Florida that my driver's liscence wasn't my own. The fellow who's ID I do have lives here in Fayetteville, and I've been trying to call his house for the longest time with no answer. I think I'll just mail it back to him if this keeps up. Anywho, I need to pick up some state tax forms, too, and see about getting my learner's permit. This weekend, if I can manage it, I'm going to pay a bit more off on the car. At least fifty dollars. The slow crawl towards having my own vehicle continues...
Oh, I started "We" today! It's pretty interesting so far, and I actually see the *appeal* of OneState, the way that Zamyatin writes about it. It's pretty odd how he keeps slipping in jabs to the idea of freedom as primitive, savage and chaotic. While symmetry is nice, I don't think I'd be very comfortable with it as the final progression of mankind. The society of OneState, though, at least through the eyes of D-503, has a wide-eyed optimism about it, and his enthusiasm for his ideals is perhaps what appeals to me more than the ideal itself. He's a genuinely likable Number. I wish people could get that revved up about what's happening to America today. Whatever happened to optimistic vigilance? The more I think about it, the more I think the apathetic deserve whatever happens to them, and if that means the price they pay for their apathy is a slow degradation to history repeating itself, so be it.
Mmm, that's not a very charitable mindset, is it? <:) Eek. I have to go to work!