{"id":244,"date":"2005-09-14T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/stereotypical-livejournal-post-no-need-to-read\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T22:02:00","slug":"stereotypical-livejournal-post-no-need-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/stereotypical-livejournal-post-no-need-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypical LiveJournal post, no need to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to do the whole LiveJournal Drivel (TM) thing now, so get comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><b>Yesterday &#8211; now I know they&#8217;re here to stay<\/b><br \/>\nYesterday was a rollercoaster of a day at work, starting with apathy, sheer glee in the middle and ending with that sick, nasty feeling in my stomach. A major cause of these emotions was things happening with money, which is something that bothers me. I have more money coming in now than I have ever had, but it&#8217;s also the first time in my life I&#8217;m going to start having more money going out than coming in &#8211; because I&#8217;m going to University. I actually have to <i>care<\/i> about money, something which I hate over all else. I also have to <i>care<\/i> about mundane things like cooking, cleaning and ironing which I generally avoid at all costs. <\/p>\n<p><b>Feeling<\/b><br \/>\nI&#8217;m experiencing a <i>lot<\/i> of self doubt and a reasonable amount of stress, but apart from that it still doesn&#8217;t feel like leaving home in a couple of days is actually real. Y&#8217;know, the town I&#8217;ve lived in since I was born.<\/p>\n<p>In a suprising twist I&#8217;m being treated like shit by senior people at work in the last week of my mostly great job, but only because I&#8217;m caught up in the rivals of others. The urge to speak the hard truth and leave utter devistation in my wake is irresistable but I have to try and not.<\/p>\n<p><b>Memories<\/b><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just been going through my things &#8211; the box I have under my bed with all the precious things in it, not valuable things, things with memories. This above anything else has made leaving home feel real. I think about all the people in those memories and what they&#8217;re doing now and I&#8217;m reminded of life&#8217;s habit of running away when you&#8217;re not looking. Interetingly there&#8217;s not a single photo in that box.<\/p>\n<p><b>Collecting<\/b><br \/>\nI was emailed by one of the Polish girls I met whilst interrailing today and a while back was emailed by the two Lauras from Spain. This has given me a sudden urge to collect the addresses and phone numbers of every person I know or have ever known!<\/p>\n<p><b>If you know me, please please send me your address and phone number. I will probably never use it, but it will make me feel much better knowing I have it there. email tola at hippygeek dot co dot uk.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had urges like this recently, urges to collect things, to back up hard disks, make lists of things to remember and things to do, to document everything so I don&#8217;t forget. A shrink would probably say it&#8217;s all down to repressed feelings about leaving things behind.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a poem last night, the type of drivel you write all in one go but actually means something to yourself. The poem was called &#8220;Obsession&#8221; and was a reflection on how obsessive my personality is &#8211; towards ideas, people and objects. I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s something to worry about or try to change or what.<\/p>\n<p><b>Busy<\/b><br \/>\nMy to do list on the computer has a very long scroll bar next to it. Very long. Added to that I have my finger in more pies than Weebl could eat in a month and a strong desire not to take any fingers out and actually do something I&#8217;m &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be doing. There&#8217;s so much going on, I just don&#8217;t want to miss anything.<\/p>\n<p>Laura&#8217;s in Spain, that&#8217;s kind of weird though I think all this would be even harder if she was around \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to do the whole LiveJournal Drivel (TM) thing now, so get comfortable. Yesterday &#8211; now I know they&#8217;re here to stay Yesterday was a rollercoaster of a day at work, starting with apathy, sheer glee in the middle and ending with that sick, nasty feeling in my stomach. A major cause of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/stereotypical-livejournal-post-no-need-to-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stereotypical LiveJournal post, no need to read<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}