NP: The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy

With the end of the semester in sight, I feel any remaining work ethic draining away rapidly. For example, I was supposed to have at least started Lonesome Dove for my seminar, but I didn't even remember to bring it with me today. This will result in an additional trip home and back, wasting time, gas, and warmth (I'm on my scooter today). My own forgetfulness is to blame, but I can't help feeling a bit of resentment toward the powers that be in the school. I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned, or perhaps needlessly antagonistic. This society makes realizing one's dreams so difficult. Money, expectations, corporations, making a living...they all act as lead weights on the wings of dreamers. I've tried to shed these burdens as best I can, but such ambitions endanger my ability to survive in this capitalistic, greed-oriented system. I would love to forget the system entirely, but unfortunately I must adhere to it in part, as the grocery store and gas stations are part of it. I really don't see an alternative to this. Fie on this planet.