Amber gets in trouble a LOT.

It's a roleplay on the Chicken Smoothie forums about people who are 16 years old (or above) and pregnant. It looks quite interesting, but I just hope it doesn't break the rules! D: I already have two board warnings on that site - one for swearing, and one for being in a roleplay with inappropriate content. Sigh. I don't need another one! I think this one's okay, though. :/

"You had to be there." "Oh."

Quite often, I will be in the middle of explaining something that I found was either hilariously funny or awesome or maybe even both that happened earlier that day, and the person will start off with a look of interest, maybe even a smile. However, about 30 seconds in, especially if I’m laughing really hard while telling it and subsequently struggling to get the words out in a somewhat coherent manner, their face changes to a bit of a confused frown and they ask, “Why are you telling me all this?” Sometimes it’s accompanied by, That’s not funny.

I finally realize what they’re telling me. Now, the smile will, at this point, often slide right off my face and be replaced with a confused look of hurt. If I’m not done yet, I will still try to stagger on even to the imminent end of the tale (shortening it up quite a bit) though the person has made it clear that they don’t want to listen anymore: I simply assure them that it will get better near the end. If I do press on, often the joke is not received. If I don’t, then that means that I’ve already obviously given up and the situation is hopeless. No chance of telling them, because it’s not like they’re going to understand, anyway. I simply say:

“Well, I guess you just kind of had to be there…. I’m sorry.” And then I huddle there underneath their gaze, full of shame and convinced that they must be thinking, What an idiot! She obviously has no idea of what funny is….

So, after explaining for a little while, they finally ask me, “What is the point?” or something to the effect of what I explained above, if I’m really trying, really hard, that day, then I can somehow manage not to look completely crushed by their statement.

Almost.

I'll do it later! And I'll do that tomorrow.

Ahaha. Procrastination. It’s a lot of fun, isn’t it? First, there are things you sort of don’t want to do at the moment, but you usually enjoy said activities. Then there are things you just don’t want to do. Then, there are the things/is the thing that you really don’t wanna do.

Usually, that’s homework.

Or, in my case, homework and cleaning my fish tanks.

Whenever I have homework, the things I just don’t want to do and the things I sort of don’t want to do suddenly become the funnest activities ever (yes, I know that funnest is not a word and is therefore never grammatically correct. However, in this context, I shall use it). It’s my brain’s way, I guess, of coping with the fact that now I have all three categories of things I don’t want to do laid out in front of me. It simply makes the first two bearable, which, of course, renders the one I really don’t want to do completely terrible.

I often tell myself, “I’ll do it tomorrow! No big deal,” and then I wait until the last minute, which, surprisingly, actually usually works really well. Well, when it comes to Math, I have to be right on the ball and then I still can’t do it, but in other subjects that I can do I can usually wait.

Here, have a picture:

It’s not as good as it could be, but, hey: it’s still fairly good! I haven’t drawn on the computer in quite a long time….