Clarification

[rinue]

I am not fond of commenting on my own journal entries after the fact, as I prefer that the work speak for itself. However, I'm fairly sure I was unclear with an aspect of the last entry that has been nagging at me:

I was making fun of myself.

That doesn't mean that I wasn't angry, but I deliberately played up the childishness of it so that even I would find it ridiculous and desist immediately. When you read the entry, you should picture a seven-year-old in patent-leather shoes, kicking things.

I'm sure the childishness came across. I'm not sure the deliberate nature did, partly because you have to know me damn well to pick up on certain aspects of the humor. I'm pretty sure Chad got it, but I imagine he's about it. A lot of it has to do with my relationship to money and/or television. As if I'd really move out on my family just because Stretch got online for a few minutes.

Not that that doesn't mean I'm not going to move, but there it is. Just FYI.

Comments

[tommx.livejournal.com]

when i was a child, i used to think that sudden unexpected explosions of baseless anger was something that growups did. thus i came to regard adults essentially the way one might regard a field of landmines.

now that i am ostensibly an adult (in spite of the fact that i still like to wear chuck taylor sneakers) i consider anger something that i generally try to avoid.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

arg, i hit the link before i'd finished typing...

anyway, in situations of anger, i generally will wind up turning the situation into something relatively humorous. ex: a phone spammer who calls me every week got 7 messages on his voice mail of me telling him not to call my number any more, and of me reading from "aslo sprach zarathustra" with inflections that one might use to read from the memoirs of mel blanc. i was still incredibly angry of course, but that was my reaction.