life purpose

[dragonlady7]

I require a life purpose. I have today off and am too bored and dispirited to want to do anything significant with it. I was considering cleaning the house but can't scrape together the energy. I haven't had a good email conversation or livejournal thread in a few days now and am starting to get way isolated-feeling and bored. (Somebody leave me a comment! I require a nonsensical lengthy comment-thread conversation about something bizarre! ... Beuller? Beuller?)
I lay in bed for an extra two hours this morning and tried to think of what to do with my life, but it didn't amount to much.

So, I'm going to tell you-all a story. It's not my story, it's Dave's, but he didn't write it, so I'm writing it.



So Dave goes to register his car at the DMV.

I'm standing there in line. I stand there for two hours. Nothing happens. We're all bored out of our minds. Behind me, a woman on a cellphone is having a really interesting conversation. So for a while I entertain myself listening to that. In front of me, there's an older dude, a biker-dude type, with the beard and the scary t-shirt with a skull on it. We stand next to one another, not speaking to one another, for two hours.
Finally the man groans. It's one of those, from-the-depths-of-the-soul kinda groans, a low-pitched, rumbling, awful, but kind of quiet noise. He looks at me.
"My Valium just wore off," he says.

Are you not entertained?


I think I'd be much better-suited to being a slacker if I didn't always feel like I ought to be doing something constructive with myself. I have these very real guilty feelings if I have free time and don't spend it writing, even when I try to de-stress by putting aside my Serious Writing Projects and working on friviolous things instead. I haven't yet watched my copy of the EE of RotK even though I was so excited to get it, because I feel like I can't spare the time. WTF?? I'm a fuckin' bartender. It's not like I have a fuckin' duty to be saving the world. So why can't I just slack off for a couple hours and not feel guilty? Pshhhfft. (<-- noise of weary self-disgust.) Maybe I should spend today Just Not Taking Myself So Fuckin' Seriously.

I asked Dave what I ought to devote my life to and he suggested macrame. I am skeptical as to his motivations.

Comments

[kittyc1978.livejournal.com]

So, you've had the day off with nothing to do and you are bumming about it? Seriously Bridget, learn to love being more relaxed. Go with the flow, nothing needs urgent attention? Go lie in bed and revel in it! You run around all the time! Give yourself a break!

DMV is like the Twilight Zone. I think the creator of that show thought it up whilest waiting in line at the Department of Morons who want to drive Vehicles...

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

DMV is terrible in Erie Co. because the county, bankrupt, just laid off several thousand employees, including shutting down four of the five DMV locations in the entire county. As of Thursday it's a two-hour wait to even get into the building; after that it's another few hours in line once you're inside. I might mention it's still snowy here, so waiting outside isn't, like, no big deal. It ain't spring yet in Erie Co.

I know, I gotta learn to just relax, but I always feel bad for not getting anything done. At least i don't have to go do anything at the DMV. :D

[eggplantia5.livejournal.com]

i have a second hand story of my own. actually, maybe a third hand story. a friend of a friend saw a woman on the subway eat a stick of margarine. parkay. normal looking, normal dressed woman, casually snacking on the stick.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

>parkay

Ewwwww! That's totally weird!!!

Now I'm all, thinking of reasons why she would do that. Like maybe she's got some weird digestive disorder.