Dec 17, 2023

i hate boat work

i have never done anything in my life i've hated as much as thinking about boat work
not even working in a psychiatric hospital or sitting through tantrum fits of children who don't want to play the piano but who are anxious when i suggest that they stop taking lessons
i hate this so much
and i hate sebastian for pretending like he was capable of handling all of this tedious thinking
i wish i could just fucking SAIL
but the life of a sailor is so little about sailing and so much about boat maintenance
and it is not even the work itself that is hard but the THINKING and PLANNING and SOURCING MATERIALS
and it is terrible

Kelly

being cool's the only thing that matters. being cool means you're at ease with your life.

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