Black Tar Heroin Is My Fallback Plan

I cut my hand again today. This time it’s on the top of my left index finger, running from the nail through the first joint. My hands scar very easily. “My hands are like etchings of concertina wire teeth exhaust burns and broken windows. Shiny pink patches that show up when I tan.” They are easily more scarred than anyone else I knows hands. This new one should be good, it runs deep and relatively long, it gets right into the meat.

God has seen fit to deal me a bitter hand and reintroduce me to Diplomacy which has to date cost me something in the neighborhood of 11 hours of lost sleep. That number is expected to grow linearly. I don’t know why I find this game so attractive, but I do. I suppose it might have something to do with the very deep personal interaction that goes on, or the deep satisfaction of a successful stab, but whatever it is it’s got me hooked in a way only really good books sometimes do.

Biology is already the most boring thing ever and makes me not never want to go to school ever again.

The war on the domestic front is winding up neatly on one front. Personal laundry and goods have been cleansed and organized. I didn’t throw away as much stuff as I thought I would, but I think some of that has to do with being better about not hanging on to junk, maybe. I’ve been making an effort to recycle stuff and save water/energy. It’s supposed to take something like 30 straight days to build a lasting habit, so we’ll see how that goes.

Although me and Netflix have been a running joke in the past, I’m finally starting to use it. Right now there’s something like 100+ movies on my queue, the vast majority of those being from before 1945. But at the rate that I can watch a movie, mail it in, and get a new one I can only watch like 6-8 movies a month, so that list will be long for a while. And what is this bullshit about the watching instantly thing not working overseas?

I signed up for biology last week. It was the only class they offered this semester that I either hadn’t already taken a class for or taken an AP test for. I won’t know what credits will transfer, I have to take two classes first, but I’d like to avoid any kind of repeats if possible. Here’s hoping the plunge back into academia (more of a toe in the water really) goes better than my last foray.

The job has taken a remarkable turn for the better. In large part this has to do with the news that my unit will not, after all, be going to Hawaii. So though that may be spiteful, at least it removes one of the primary contentions I had with the work. The pace in general has slowed down, and some new blood around the shop has made the atmosphere a great deal more jovial. I’ve got a lot of free time now too, so for now I’m doing an extreme reorganization of the shop, though after that I’m not sure what I’ll keep busy with.

Well, things keep going forward towards the end of the summer.