8/25/2002 08:43:00 PM [ link ]
yesterday I...
- stood in a large nostril
- ate fried cheese (Why do they call it fried cheese? It's just going to be mozzarella sticks, nothing special, right? But these were no mere "mozzarella sticks". This was Fried Cheese. With a capital F and a capital C. Glorious triangles of greasiness! Yum.)
- attempted to kill some zombies (Rather unsuccessfully, I might add. ("It'll be fun, I promise!"))
today I...
- failed to do laundry
- failed to clean my room
- oops
Also, something has been bothering me since last night. Apparently the initial impression I leave on people is that of a complete and total goody goody. Why is that?
I occasionally have a drink. I occasionally swear. For some reason, this seems to surprise people. Why is it so surprising? I don't drink or swear any more than the average person. (Certainly I drink quite a bit less than the average college student.) It's not as if people expected me to be "normal" only to find out that I curse like a sailor and drink to grievous excess. That I could understand. People don't expect me to be "normal" -- they expect me not to drink or swear at all.
Why? What is it about me that causes everyone to hold me to different standards than the other people they meet?
"You're always so serious."
"Oh my god, did you just say 'hell'??"
"Wait, you drink?!"
How am I supposed to react to comments like these? I'm just doing what I normally do, being myself, and people try to make me feel weird about it.
Why do people persist in making me feel uncomfortable when I behave in the exact same manner as everyone else?
