Alice pointed out to me today that there is a difference between characteristics and personality. The internet claims that a personality is ‘the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual’, whereas character is a ‘feature: a prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map showed pink rhinos and other features"; "androgynous oversized bunny thoughts are some of his best characteristics"’ or a ‘distinguishing quality’. This doesn’t really tell you much, although it mentions that the personality traits ‘characterize an individual’ (so it’s obviously really helped me out in life).
Anyway, apparently the main problems of me are more to do with my characteristics. I mean, that’s probably a good thing, because it means that at heart she considers me okay. But then bad characteristics are normally pure annoyances, which is indicative that I will probably drive away everyone I like by annoying them to death. I could make a plan of action which ends up with me stopping laughing nervously every few seconds, being nervous to the point of awkward freezing up when just saying hi to other people, and generally being a better person.
At this point I question whether that would involve staying true to myself. I mean, if I change that, what am I left with? And then I remember that I am changing the random bits which are about perception as opposed to being about me. So that’s fine. But a bit of an effort.
I roasted vegetables for dinner today. Chop up peppers, carrots, squash, pretty much anything, throw in a couple of tomatoes and halved garlics, heat oil in an oven dish, throw said vegetables in, cover in salt, pepper, thyme and stuff, drizzle some more oil, splatter with water after they’ve cooked for a bit to keep them nice and juicy, and they take like only a bit of time. Oven on 180C. They deserve much dancing and joyfulness because roasted vegetables are often unappreciated as schools shrivel them into pieces of elephant skin filled with water and string. I don’t know how my school manages it.
Today I argued with one of my lovely friends. Not sure how to make it up to her. As she might read this, I’m not going to mention that global warming is definitely happening, and is a problem, but I would like to state for the record that I feel bad that I let an issue like that get in the way of our friendship, and that I’m sorry I did.
I’ve had probably the angriest moment of the month when a music teacher who happens to play in my school orchestra but is in no way in charge of it stole my own personal, awesome, mug, and refused to return it to me as I was late to orchestra and was drinking tea from it when I did appear. I feel this is unjust. Also, she was laughing as she said it the first time, so I thought she was joking, and it turned out she wasn’t. I think if you’re going to be a bitch, then do so whilst looking like a bitch. I mean, she does look pretty evil, but the laughing was unnecessarily cruel. In fact, the whole thing is just vindictive, she probablyl doesn’t think I deserve to be the leader of the orchestra as I don’t want to devote my life to music. If I ever get to be a famous author, I shall write a short story about the incident and have an interview in which I look straight at the camera and profess my undying hatred of that woman.
In other news, I just spent about half an hour reading a friend of mine from California’s quote section on facebook. I did not have time to do this. I will die of exhaustion tomorrow. But here’s some highlights:
Jason: Here. Quesadilla.
Ben: Food. Yay. WHY DID YOU GIVE ME A SPORK?! IT'S A QUESADILLA.
Jason: In my defense, we were all incredibly high.
Ben: Hey, our exit's next.
Jason: It is? Oh yes it is! Oh goochie goochie goo!
Ben: Did you just goochie goochie goo our freeway exit? What the hell? I don't even know how to say that. Is that even an action? You can't goochie goochie goo a FREEWAY EXIT.
Ben: It's not working!
Jason: I know it's not!
Ben: It's like we have some weird telepathic bond!
Jason: You're trying to eat a frozen pizza through the package OF COURSE IT'S NOT WORKING.
Song of today is British Sea Power’s Down On The Ground, as can be heard here: http://www.britishseapower.co.uk/.
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