Pay the fine at the library. I have no idea why I let myself get a library fine but in my culture this is worse than an STD. If you’ve contracted an STD you’ve come in contact with another human and while you’ve caught is disgusting, and you’re disgusting, you’ve done something we haven’t and that’s admirable. A late book to the library is inconsiderate in a way that gonorrhea simply isn’t. When you’ve had a book late back to the library, you’ve kept some other sad, broke nerd from reading it. You’ve trapped them in this world kept them from slipping into the other worlds. You may have even caused them to encounter a television program that will surely rot their brains.
I’m going to learn to accept compliments. Most people really don’t know how to accept a compliment and many people don’t like them, or pretend not to like them. I can’t hold a conversation with someone fishing for a compliment. I have no use for them and end up being very rude when given one. I don’t know if it comes from being more used to people saying unkind things or if it’s because I truly don’t care what you think or even that I don’t value in other people what you value, but it’s there. There has to be a way for me to graciously and genuinely say, “thank you” or at least acknowledge what was just hurled at me.
I’m going to use my health insurance. I have a wart on my foot that hasn’t gone away on it’s own and it’s been there since college. It’s ranged anywhere from twenty-five to seven hundred dollars to remove it and my loyalty to my locally owned coffee shop or corporate pit of a Jamba Juice has always come before my feet. It doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is two fold: first, I’m paying a larger portion of something I’m not using and second, I feel fine but a lot of people feel fine and fall over dead. Something caught now will cost less than it would later. However, like the dog, if it costs over a certain amount to keep me alive I’m really not worth it. Bear that in mind as well as my wish never to be visited in the hospital.
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