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Do You Think Jabba The Hut Would Do Chenille?
Thursday, March 6, 2008 Today is a day in which Bitch uncoils herself from my within my chest, swells up through my throat, and declares Feck off, all of yous!
I am doing my best to remain calm, but I am caught up in my annual early spring irritation, which begins right after the first sign of thaw and the disappointing re-freeze that follows it. I want out: out of the office, out of my apartment, out of the city, out of every last thing that places and schedules me into a pattern. I am fifteen (in spirit) and fed up with The Man. Let's go smoke a carton of cigarettes and steal your dad's gin.
People keep coming up and talking to me, because I am normally a very nice person, but I can tell that I am being a bit off-putting today. I can feel my aggression rising, and suddenly my voice is too forceful, too loud, and I am saying black every time they say white. Could I be any more the three-year old who has been denied candy? You are talking to me, and can't you see that my brain is twisted wire wool right now? If you don't leave RIGHT NOW, all this shit's gonna start on fire!
I have my ups and downs throughout the year, but I find that the biggest complicating factor is my seasonal anxiety and depression during the winter and spring. A subtle change in the weather and the sunlight, and I can be thrown into a deep depressive fog or be thrust up into happy busy-ness. I can never be sure which it will be. Today, I have been pushed out on a third precipice, for example: Bitch.
I have a plan, though, to take care of myself at the end of the day. I am going to wash all the bedding, take it straight from the dryer, pile it all on top of myself, and drink chocolate milk from a straw. I will be like Jabba the Hut dressed in orange chenille. And then I will breathe in and breathe out and remember that this is just today.
Sometimes it is a blessing to be a fairly rapid cycler.
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Reader Comments (6)
You've just described the pent up madness that exists in my chest cavity right at this moment. It's combining with an urge to smash something hard into something else.
Hopefully it'll pass before my head explodes.
The only positive thing about the rapid changes in mood this time of year is knowing that up will eventually come after down. If I don't hurt myself in down.
I washed my bedding this morning. It's hanging on the line and will smell like spring sunshine when I bring it in. Draping it over my body sounds like a perfect ending.
I'm pretty sure Jabba is a nudist.
Im not sure if Jabba the Hutt is a nudist or just nude. I mean, hes a Hutt, sure, but is he a Huttist? These are the questions that should be put to the Democratic candidates, but instead its all about policy. Pfft.
What you need my dear is for me to bring you over a chocolate martini.
Or two. I am tired of talking and talking all the time and would like to sit down and listen to someone else talk!
I think I know that irritation. Last couple of days, I've been wanting to huddle in a corner and gnaw on a big bone.