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Such a Waste

[img]So, I totally wasted my two days off sleeping. I told Bill this.

I said, “I was asleep these two days more than I was awake, I think.”

He said, “That’s good.”

I said, “Not really.”

And that was that.


I went to Denny’s this morning and had breakfast because I felt like having a “real” breakfast. I was going to make myself pancakes but my pancake mix was full of bugs. I had the skillet all warmed up and everything. I could have cried.

I wrote in my journal at Denny’s, only after discovering that someone at work wrote in it as well, a page after my entry that looked almost exactly like this one (except better). I would quote it here but suffice to say it was very cheesy and lacked any sort of talent at all, to the point where the final line was a question, but lacked a question mark. You can sometimes pass those sorts of things off stylistically but not this time around, it was very bad. I have a feeling it was Ivan just fucking with me, but if I really want to be cruel to myself I can believe that someone was trying to tell me that my writing is trite and pointless. Oh well, I guess. Let the critics hang themselves on the details.

I wrote…


I’m sitting at Denny’s, diligently working through my french toast. The joy of eating is gone and now it’s the process of dutifully killing off the beast, leaving it with a little bit of life left in it would be needlessly cruel and unsympathetic. (I hand write like shit, I know).

I’ll never fully understand coffee, as it is served to me to quinch my thirst, but it is always served to me too hot. How am I supposed to enjoy it asap if I can’t drink it without burning my mouth off? Coffee is not a hydration refreshment. It dehydrates almost exclusively. Here, I will play art student and draw coffee.

[insert squiggle cup of coffee] yeah I rock


I wrote something else but it isn’t important.

4 Responses to “Such a Waste”

  1. :(

    IHOP > Denny’s

  2. bzzzzt! denny’s == god

    also, “something else” means “I <3 Dan, but not in a gay way.”

  3. Uhm, yeah, OK guys.

  4. Denny’s here is an overpriced piece of shit now.

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