Useless Bantering
03/23/99

Repent the end is near.

The decision: Rick you have to learn how to write a normal column. I say okay, I’ll try. But where to start?

I gotta get a good topic... I feel pretty weird, doing this because I really don’t know to write I was thrown in to this situation with no idea how to do it.

First off: I actually wrote my column, four or five of them... It’s be a rough week. One moment extremely happy like you want to cover yourself in whipped cream and crisco and five minutes later, you want to drive off the nearest bridge. This is a common occurrence in my life. Manic depression I think it’s called. Anyway, It’s been hard, a lot of driving, phone calls, a lot of walkin, a lot of drinking (not on my part, my roommate’s, I drove him over the edge... sorry!), depression, band searching, dealing w/ myself, maniac lunatics on the radio (12-2am on Friday) and most importantly, lack of sleep. I don’t sleep. I stay up late and get up early. I miss sleep. It’s so nice. My strife is with the beds on campus. The frames sink-in, in the middle. Why? My bed at home doesn’t do that. It’s really annoying. I wake up with mattress on either side of me.

Next problem is room service. I want someone to come in and clean my room. Not that I’m a slob or anything, It’s just that I have better things to do with not enough time. I’m pay someone to do my laundry and make my bed... I’d want to go back to my room and do homework or sleep there. As it is, I have all my clean laundry on my bed and I don’t feel like folding it. So when I wake in to my room at 3:30am I have to either throw the clean clothes on the floor, defeating the purpose of washing them or stay up another 1/2 hour and fold them. I hope the floor ain’t too dirty...

I rip my hair because it’s 3:13am and there isn’t a damn place open at this time. I want to eat. There should be some all-night place to eat on campus. I know that I’m not the only one up. I see you people in the van hosen computer labs or walking around outside. There’s no place in town except frank and mary’s... (I’m not going to touch that one.) There’s plenty of people up and that have the munchies now. Otherwise you have to wake til snack bar opens at 7am. That’s a whole four hours from now! I’m starving!!! note: The one I almost ran, why I don't know. This sucks, but I felt stumped as to what to write. 1