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"...think I'll have to set the building on fire..."

Well, the school system is working:

I am so bored that I can feel my personality, interests, and mind dissolving. The fluorescent lights, small windows, and other sensory deprivations are distorting my sense of time, draining me of all thought or desire to think.

Because the daily government-mandated “learning” at the gulag (schulag) parasites away so many of my waking hours (about 8 hrs/day counting transpo to and fro), I have not much time to pursue my hobbies, etc.

While I’m at skull, I have no meaningful conversations because I have no true friends, and so I just have to sit down and shut up.

And it’s not like I’m extremely antisocial or shy, it’s just that so many people disgust me with their brainwashedness or drug addictions, or sports obsessions or “...and she said that the other girl said that...” airheaded and totally meaningless -ness, so I don’t want to talk to them or they don’t want to talk to me.

Sometimes, I feel like that fat guy Milton from Office Space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGwr5wj8A8), and think I should just “set the building on fire.”

(Uh-oh, terrorist, mentally unstable, arsonist, troubled child, "shun the non-believer Charlie," Scream!!!! aahsfiuvohq3ubgudfbqu9e!@#$%^&*!!!)

...Plus I have physical and mental scars from severe acne that I’m still slowly healing from. And I mean horrible, cystic, “Is that you or did you loan your face to a monkey with a skin condition” acne....which is always a little inconvenient when you are required by law to go to the same public place everyday for all the world to see.


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*patpat*

Life is shit, dear friend! Come enjoy the shit that is life with the other two-thousand of us here!
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Life can be pretty good once you get outta hell. Hug
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Number11 Wrote:...Plus I have physical and mental scars from severe acne that I’m still slowly healing from. And I mean horrible, cystic, “Is that you or did you loan your face to a monkey with a skin condition” acne....which is always a little inconvenient when you are required by law to go to the same public place everyday for all the world to see.
I've got that. It made my life a living hell since the day school started.
Any arguments I get into at school, I automatically lose. Somehow, the presence of acne automatically nullifies any argument.
Plus, people have been avoiding me just because of it.
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