From: mikey@ontek.com (euphausia superba)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:59:59 GMT
Organization: Ontek Corporation -- Laguna Hills, California

(Apologies for quoting such a large chunk.)
In alt.angst, lemay@lorelei.Eng.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay) writes:
| 
| Here's some examples of my current angst:
|
| - More books to write.  Seems like as soon as I get one done, I have
|   another three to do.  Right now I'm juggling two doc sets of about 1k
|   pages each.  Both are mostly similar, only they're for different UNIXes
|   so there are minor differences.  So I have to keep track of changes and
|   whether they should go into one book or the other or both.  Plus 
|   I get to put all of this online.  Plus I have to edit it all and write
|   the scripts that integrate it into the product.
| 
|   Of course, I just got a great review for what I'm doing.  But the kicker
|   is that the employees in the top review bracket only get a 3% raise
|   this year.  Heh.
| 
| - I've lost my housemate.  He's moving to the city and I can't blame him,
|   I wish I lived in the city.  But this means that in the midst of all my
|   deadlines and hell I have to interview potential housemates.  I hate
|   doing that.  I really hate that.
| 
| - I just bought the new hot fast motorcycle of my dreams.  Its blue, its sexy,
|   it has a ton of horsepower.  Unfortunately, its so hot and fast that I'm
|   scared stiff of riding it.  Its quirky; it can flip me off the back in
|   a second.  So now I have a hot, fast, sexy blue motorcycle sitting in my
|   garage with me looking at it regretfully every couple of hours.
| 
| - My relationship.  Yeah, I'm getting boinked on a regular basis, and
|   boinked well, so I can't complain there.  And I'm happy with my
|   situation, and happy the way its working out, but I can't help but
|   drool over cute boys I see elsewhere.  I've been monogamous so far,
|   but I can't say it'll stay that way.  So how can I commit properly
|   the way I know he wants me to?
| 
| - Migraines.  I get them when I'm under stress and when its hot out.  I've 
|   had two dealines in the past month, and its july.  I have three more
|   deadlines in the coming month and it'll be august.  Also I got myself
|   into mt. dew again during my last deadline.  I hate caffiene, cause I
|   get so badly addicted to it, and...it gives me headaches.  And quitting it
|   gives me worse headaches.  La la la la.
| 
| - I turn 25 on the 1st of august.  25 -- a quarter of a century, a
|   third of my life.  I am now the oldest goth I know.  I promised
|   myself I'd start saving for my retirement when I was 25.  Saving for
|   one's retirement at 25 is really, really depressing.
| 
| - I've come to the conclusion (part of comtemplating being 25) that I will
|   never be in a famous rock band, either as drummer or singer or both.
|   I will probably not change the world no matter how enthusiastically I
|   vote.  I keep saying I'll write a novel, but I can't seem to find the
|   time to do it.  I want to grow vegetables, and I have no land.  I
|   want to read all the books in my bookcase, but new books keep coming
|   along that are equally important for me to buy.  I want to have a
|   perfect body, but again time and also genetics keep getting in the
|   way.  I want to be a natural redhead.  I want to wear contact lenses
|   that don't hurt.  I want to be really good at something before I
|   die.  I want to be famous, and I don't want to be famous on the net.
|   I want to go home and crawl in bed and let my cats play with my feet
|   under the covers, but I had meetings all this morning and had to go
|   to the doctor and now I'm stuck here until I finish these damn
|   books and the other writer keeps pestering me about whether super
|   user is spelled super-user or superuser or super user and really who
|   gives a fuck anyway.
| 
| Yeah, its been a hard day.  Don't tell me I don't fucking have angst.

In alphabetical order:

  "I" was used in the above text 62 times.
  "me" was used 8 times.
  "my" was used 12 times.
  "myself" was used 2 times.

Not that you're self-centered, but mentioning anything 84 times
in a row must indicate some sort of obsession.  For example, if
someone were to mention pez 84 times, you might think he or she
was a bit unbalanced.  Just some underwater perspective from...

     the krill