the a/c in one of our buildings is broken and it was 32C in there today. guess who had to spend 4 hours in the lab there. never mind.
maybe i've gone heat-stupid or i'm so dehydrated that i can't think clearly but i'm tired. so tired of a lot of things. i feel lonely all the time and isolated. i don't have any friends and i think a lot of that is to do with the fact that i'm not a particularly easy person to get along with. they had this thing in the paper yesterday where you checked things off to see if you had depression. if you scored more than 4 out of 8 you are depressed. i scored 8. but i know i don't have depression because i've seen depression and that's not it. i guess it's something else.
i don't have any motivation anymore. work takes it all out of me, not that i mind, i enjoy my job and like doing the hours. but outside of that, what's the point? i have too much self respect to be a fake. i can't play the games other people do or take part in the endless self-congratulating. and it's been like this as long as i can remember. i'm so lonely that sometimes i think i'm going to fall down on the floor and start crying for no reason. that worries me sometimes.
i want to be a writer but i think i'm a long way from putting down a sentence that i'm happy with. all the people i admire (Nin, Bukowski, Steinbeck, Capote, et al) seemed to have the same sense of disconnection from people that i have. maybe writers are like that or people who are like that become writers. i don't know. the book progresses. slowly.
i'm leaving now, more work and then home to an empty bed, in an empty life. i'll leave you with the title of the book i just finished reading:
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense