As I scraped the ice off my car this morning, I realized what I was in for: 6 months of abject misery and darkness. It's basically winter, baby, and ain't nuttin' I can do about it. My ursine tendencies tell me it's time to hibernate, to let this shit envelop me until April. Yesterday I went to sleep at 6:00 pm, woke up at 10:00 pm, went back to sleep at 1:00 am and got up for work at 7:00 am. That's entirely too much sleep and I don't even feel bad about it.
It's not like this shit is the Siberian Peninsula, but sometimes I think it might as well be. It feels like I'm sleepwalking most of the time. It's definitely rut related. I'm physically exhausted because I'm mentally understimulated. Once I get mentally stimulated and I go back to my everyday shit, I feel like I just crashed.
The saddest shit I do every so often is drive back from Detroit to Satan's Anus. It's an anguishing trip. It's counterintuitive. I'm driving away from everything I want and driving towards everything I don't want. The drive is symbolic in more ways than one.
My drive towards achieving success in my professional field has taken me further away from my desire to achieve in any other way. In short, I'm getting lazier, which I didn't think was possible.
That's all I got.
Stay Rested,
KZ
It's not like this shit is the Siberian Peninsula, but sometimes I think it might as well be. It feels like I'm sleepwalking most of the time. It's definitely rut related. I'm physically exhausted because I'm mentally understimulated. Once I get mentally stimulated and I go back to my everyday shit, I feel like I just crashed.
The saddest shit I do every so often is drive back from Detroit to Satan's Anus. It's an anguishing trip. It's counterintuitive. I'm driving away from everything I want and driving towards everything I don't want. The drive is symbolic in more ways than one.
My drive towards achieving success in my professional field has taken me further away from my desire to achieve in any other way. In short, I'm getting lazier, which I didn't think was possible.
That's all I got.
Stay Rested,
KZ
24 comments:
I can see that this is gonna be a long ass winter for alot of us....
Yea, that driving away from shit to shit that ain't no better...well that was my life this time last year. Fucken sucked.
Go ahead an hibernate. First stack up on some ass...I mean acorns so you don't starve for the winter months...heeheehee
Ain't but two hunnit to fly to NYC. NYC in the fall is special.
@Blah
Your winter is bound to be better than mine. Trust me.
How am I gonna stack ass? Have you ever been to this blog before?
I'll be back to NYC soon, hopefully. I'll let you buy me empanadas.
KZ
Something's gotta give...you got me over here feeling bipolar. These highs...then these lows...maybe you need to start smoking weed like Bobby Brown so it can cure you too.
this is why i to stay in the south. the north is too dayum cold! i'm a country girl and i don't want to get accustomed to snow and scrapping shit off my car.
and even though you hate the anus, you've got to stick to you plan right?
@TS
That's how I spent my undergraduate life, smoked out. To paraphrase Huey Lewis and the News, I need a new drug.
I'm pretty even keeled when I just go through the motions.
@Aqua
My plan is to be here until July. After that, all bets are off!
KZ
somnambulism used to be one of my favorite words when I was a kid. It sounds like you cursing, but you not.
I feel you on this post. I think I'm going through the same shit.
Zed...this is my first time here. I really enjoy your writing. Your so funny...and clever. Using big words and shit.
I'll be back. Great post!
lmao@blah
hehehehe
aiight, i gotta leave, laugh, then come back...
Definitely understand what you are going through-I am in the same boat. However, I wish like hell I could sleep like you!
Damn...you get to sleep? I am pissed at that.
I co-sign that Winter sucks and I am sure it sucks more in the Anus (pun intended). Island girls like me HATE the cold...
I was thinking the same thing about winter this morning when I left for work. It's f*cking cold! And, in Boston, it's fair game to snow anywhere from October through April. I love sleeping in winter, too, which is probably the reason why I've gained 10 lbs back in the last month!
But um, I was under the impression Detroit is Satan's Anus. Where is Satan's Anus, if not Detroit? Or wait, is that the armpit, and Jacksonville, FL, is the other? lol
@T Cas
I never thought about it sounding like a curse word, but now that you mention it, it's gonna be a non-cursing alternative in the epithet category.
@Blah
Thank you. I appreciate your comments and your insight as a first-timer.
@Nikki
If you laugh at her, you'll only encourage the behavior.
@Tjeanise
You don't want the mind numbing boredom that makes you sleep like that. Trust me.
@Sixy
You got them babies, man. No sleep for the productive!
Y'all gotta make plans to pull up stakes so you can move back to tropical weather.
@BZ
I gotta clarify this all the time. I'd never call the city I love, the city of my birth "Satan's Anus". The D could be horrible, I'd never diss it wholescale. Satan's Anus is a place 2.5 hours from Detroit with a population less than 80,000. I live a half mile from a corn field and an apple orchard. This is hell.
KZ
I live in Canada so I feel your pain. I moved from the West Coast where the winters were very mild. When I went home to the West Coast last year at Christmas my brother and I went to play some golf. However, things seemed to be looking as per your last post. You may be booed up come real winter.
@MizJJ
Boo'ed up? Me? Moi? Ol' Dude? Knockout Love? Zeddy Z? Young Pookie?
Get outta town!
Baby, Canada is mad harsh. Fuckin' Alberta Clipper swoopin' down on Michigan and shit. You should get back west!
KZ
Oh damn! Kalamazoo? HAHA I was a camp counselor in West Olive (talk about middle of nowhere) near Grand Haven and about 45 mins outside Grand Rapids. Fun summers, but definitely could not live there year-round.
I just love this time of year, especially when it starts getting dark at about 5:45 PM and it stays dark until 8 AM. And halloween is coming up..scary movies on TV. The only things that suck about this time of year is Thanksgiving and Christmas and crap like that...but other than that, I'm filled with glee.
@BZ
Ix-nay that Alamazoo-Kay It-Shay. That's our secret, OK?
@L and TV
My old boss used to call this "The Long Night". You get to work in the dark and leave in the dark. That's some miserable shit. Dark AND cold? Fuckin' unbearable.
When have you ever been filled with glee? I'd like to see that!
KZ
aawwww STOP complaining!!!! lol..Go find yourself a snow bunny....
stay focused my friend and keep your eyes on the prize...
I had to turn on my heat today and I'm pissed. I hate freaking winter, but I love to see the changing leaves.
Find a hobby.
sleep walking, huh? from reading this post, sounds more like s.a.d. (seasonal affective disorder)... :-/
@Slish
Are you trying to get me lynched? This ain't the big city!
@GQ
It's hard to stay focused when the prize feels so far away.
@Honest
I woke up freezing this morning because I forgot to turn on the heat last night. It's all cold and fucked up and shit.
@FA
No, it's sleepwalking. If I had some shit poppin', it could be hot lava flowing through the streets. The seasons never got me down like this.
KZ
I have been desperately trying to find energy to get out of bed in the mornings. When I open my eyes at 6:30 and it's PITCH BLACK, I feel like it MUST be still nighttime, and go right back to sleep.
I hate the short days and long days (HATE 'em), but at least once the clocks turn back, I'll be able to get up early & exercise.
So, I got that the D stands for "Dimples" - what do the T & A really stand for? (ROFLMAO at the possibilities).
@Mack
Snow can be fun. Cold is fuckin' unbearable.
@Monica C
I still don't understand the daylight savings thing, but I'm looking forward to the "fall back" just the same.
Yes, the "D" is for dimples. And yes, that does just leave T and A. What of it?
KZ
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