Wanted: A Life
Apr. 20th, 2006 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puckrobinYou know, I've been wondering why I don't update my blog with my daily activities - cats acting up or trips to coffee shops or well, anything that isn't artistic criticism or political activism. At first, I thought maybe it's just because I'm a pedantic bore.
But obviously, that's not the case.
The truth is that I don't appear to have a life at the moment. I used to have a life. Back in university, I definitely had one. Now I have a job - that hollow non-life of the 9 to 5 that most of us share. But I don't have that much of a life when I get home. As fun as the episodes on the used Star Trek: The Original Series (Season Two) DVD set are, or my Firefly and Doctor Who DVDs are, it's not really a life.
Now, I could buy some self-help books, go to clubs, join some groups, or get a lobotomy and join a mainstream religion. But really, all that sounds like far, far too much work.
I'd rather just buy a life. So, is anyone willing to sell theirs?
If you don't want to be burdened with real social activities anymore, if you long for a time when you can sit at home and contemplate whether the 51st century Time Agent reference in "The Empty Child" supports or contradicts "Talons of Weng-Chiang" ... well, then you're clearly not going to be needing your life anytime soon.
Of course, I reserve the right to reject any life that's offered. I understand that life must have some degree of suffering. I've listened to Captain Kirk pontificate about it, after all. But well, if you've got leprosy or have death squads after you, that's just a bit too much life for me.
Allen
But obviously, that's not the case.
The truth is that I don't appear to have a life at the moment. I used to have a life. Back in university, I definitely had one. Now I have a job - that hollow non-life of the 9 to 5 that most of us share. But I don't have that much of a life when I get home. As fun as the episodes on the used Star Trek: The Original Series (Season Two) DVD set are, or my Firefly and Doctor Who DVDs are, it's not really a life.
Now, I could buy some self-help books, go to clubs, join some groups, or get a lobotomy and join a mainstream religion. But really, all that sounds like far, far too much work.
I'd rather just buy a life. So, is anyone willing to sell theirs?
If you don't want to be burdened with real social activities anymore, if you long for a time when you can sit at home and contemplate whether the 51st century Time Agent reference in "The Empty Child" supports or contradicts "Talons of Weng-Chiang" ... well, then you're clearly not going to be needing your life anytime soon.
Of course, I reserve the right to reject any life that's offered. I understand that life must have some degree of suffering. I've listened to Captain Kirk pontificate about it, after all. But well, if you've got leprosy or have death squads after you, that's just a bit too much life for me.
Allen
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:30 am (UTC)If you want, it's easy enough to burn you a copy of the Children in Need special. I've done it for Marytek.
Allen
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Date: 2006-04-26 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 01:11 am (UTC)Such is the power of Doctor Who. :)
Allen
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Date: 2006-04-26 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 01:21 am (UTC)So, did you see Pertwee when he came to Kitchener in the early 1980s? I did. (Co-editor of a Dr. Who zine back in the day - my collaborator, Jaime, was from KW.)
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Date: 2006-04-26 01:23 am (UTC)And my friend Dan Kukwa was head of a Doctor Who club 'round here in the 90s I believe...