10/9/23, 11:38 AM My Daily Struggles: A Boring Life

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A Boring Life
My Daily Struggles
After all the
dislocation of my life, My Zimbio
and the uncertainties Top Stories

of my existence, it is My Zimbio
paradise to be in this KudoSurf Me!
quiet apartment in
Washington. Some Blog Archive
people say that my ► 2020 (1)
neighborhood is the
► 2016 (9)
dreariest part of
northwest ► 2015 (23)
Washington. I am a ► 2014 (60)
stranger here, but I
► 2013 (134)
feel at home: it is
life, and I am ► 2012 (476)
content--yes, ► 2011 (1049)
miserable, but content with my misery. ► 2010 (1340)
► 2009 (305)
I spend the day doing small things, drinking my morning cup of coffee,
going to the library, then coming home and listening to music; ▼ 2008 (106)
afterwards going for a walk, shopping for dinner, cooking my evening ► December (6)
meal. In between all this activity, when I have a quiet moment (as if all
▼ November (4)
my moments were not quiet!), I look over my notes. I am daunted by
Neurotic Mothers
them--the strange handwriting, the bizarre references, the bizarrely-
boring notes about my life (if one might call it a life). There are two Schizoid Personality Disorder:
large notebooks, about two hundred pages, filled with my writing. Between Two Worlds-...
There is too much of it. Some pruning is in order, I should think. There's Goooooooooooo -- Bama
enough material here for a hundred blog posts, at least. A Boring Life

It's a relief to have household chores to do. They keep me from ► October (10)
thinking, just as thinking keeps me from living. My chores are brainless ► September (6)
and tiring, they are just what I need.
► August (4)

I think of myself when I was a little boy coming home in the middle of ► July (6)
the day for lunch. I had a very serious face, very pale from the ► June (8)
Philadelphia winter and perfectly smooth. I had small beautiful hands
► May (4)
and deep brown eyes that were so expressive my mother did all she
could to please me. She gave me treats, bought me chocolate at the ► April (12)

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corner store, and cakes for my after-lunch dessert. She watched ► March (9)
television with me, sitting next to me. When I was at school my mother ► February (15)
missed me so much that sometimes she went early to meet me, and
► January (22)
loitered until I appeared.
► 2007 (174)
"What do you want for lunch?"
► 2005 (10)

"A ham sandwich with Swiss cheese." ► 2004 (64)

► 1971 (1)
It delighted my mother that she could make me happy by being with me
► 1970 (1)
and offering me these simple things.

Actually, all this is a lie. My mother all but ignored me, and never
picked me up at school. When I started kindergarten, my mother had a
neighbor child walk me to school to acquaint me, no doubt, with the
cruel reality of life that mother is not always there to offer comfort. I
accommodated myself very early to the fact that my mother mostly
ignored me, rarely tried to please me, and never offered an empathic
observation to soothe my troubled heart.

Posted by My Daily Struggles at 1:08 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...
and therefore the picture makes sense...?

remember when you had said that in you i see a cationary tale of
wasted talent? i don't know that to be true, so i won't deny or
confirm. but when you describe a life lived thus, as in this post --
'boring', i think about how i often long for such moments as you've
mentioned; but to nurture a hobby, or write a novel. you are
skillful in your ability to dissect personalities and thought and
ideas, perceptive and eloquent with words, and yet you keep a
blog that has unpredictable shelf-life. give it a thought will you?
but remember, no plagiarism!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Anonymous said...
but wouldn't you be deemed overqualified on account of your law
degree for the work of a paralegal?

Thursday, May 25, 2006

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