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10-11-01 no thanks, I'll pass I really don't want to do this, but rather than cop out, I'll explain why. First off, today's comic is the last time we'll see the "good guys" for a while. The party is more or less assembled, and now it's time to see the "dark side". Hmm... I guess that term really doesn't apply when the main character is TheDarkChristian... Anyway, we'll see Tempest's recruits. I tried to make it humorous, with a slapstick humor usually associated with Bob and George or Life of Wily. Thanks for the many emails and message board posts lately. It's been fun chatting with all of you, and I appreciate your feedback, both good and bad. I tried to make the strip today more funny based on one email. I hope you like it (you know who you are). I've also gotten a lot of requests for people to add them to my links page. If you don't see your link there, be sure to get on my case about it until it is. Okay, I think that's all of that stuff to get out of the way. I had told someone in email a couple hours ago that I would rant about a particular topic. Sorry, I think I'm going to rant about some other stuff right now. I'll answer your question in email and quite possibly in a later rant. Alright, now to why I don't want to write this. To be honest, I don't feel much like doing anything. Here's the way my life works: Get up in the morning, do what has to be done, go to sleep. That "do what has to be done" covers everything from personal hygiene to chores to Reset to homework. To be honest, I don't have free time anymore. There is so much to do, so many projects to complete, that I don't even have time to play video games anymore. You're probably either sympathizing with me or saying sarcastically "ooh, poor pitiful TDC". Well, let me explain a little better. With so much going on in my life, my instinct is to just shut down and not do anything. Yet I am compelled by a number of different forces to continue. I want to tell people "shut up, leave me alone, go away" but instead find myself saying "hey, how's it going? Come on in." So many times I respond the exact opposite of how I really want to respond. Why do I do this? The first answer would be my faith. The second would be my upbringing. I had a fairly strict set of rules to follow, and I have learned as my life goes on the consequences of negative actions. So instead of saying "fuck you" to every person I meet, I find myself quietly smiling and exchanging pleasantries. I make myself sick. Everything is so damned false, it makes me want to scream. I don't remember what it's like to be "real" anymore. Perhaps that "real" me is that empty hollow feeling inside that makes me want to give up. Maybe it's a selfish tendency to want time to myself, to express myself, to make someone understand... That brings up a couple of other points. I fight constantly with the notion that I am selfish or self-centered. It is something I have always been accused of, and so I check every action on that scale. Also, because I hate myself when I interact with people, I tend to spend more time alone, spending time in books, online or playing video games (when I can). *sigh* So much to say, so little space. Maybe I should take up journaling. But I like knowing that someone else is reading what I am writing, even if it's just a handful of relative strangers. Well, thanks for listening. I guess I'm done, but I still feel the need to connect with someone... BTW, thanks Ben, for chatting with me whenever I IM you. It means a lot, even if we talk about nothing, or bulletin boards or role playing. I think I'll focus some of this energy, this tendency to want to share my life into my novel. That is, after my last major update to Reset and my update of my geocities sites, and... enough. ~TDC, who doesn't feel like doing much
of anything, but does it anyway PS - we're doing a little something to help out with the relief effort. We (my father and I) are selling t-shirts for $15 and polo shirts for $25. Each says "Remember 9-11-2001" and sports an American flag. The tees have a stylized, waving flag, and the polos have an embroidered straight flag. $3.50 from each tee and $5 from each polo goes to the Red Cross. Email me if you're interested. I haven't worked out shipping costs yet. Haven't had a need to. |
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