Lockpicking is so unusual. You really can’t find or buy the tools, and the only real way to get’em is to actually be a locksmith or make them. Unless you want the crappy amazon.com ones.
It was sort of funny. I went into the lock + key store again, with a new guy behind the counter [the last one banned me from the store?] and I asked him if he had a pick that would let me remove part of a key from the inside of my lock. This isn’t really an outlandish question, as this kind of thing probably happens a lot. He answered that it was unlikely that I, as a non-locksmith, would be able to get my hands on such a tool. I asked him if there were anything that I could try that would give me even a slim chance of acquiring such a tool. He smiled, and I think he knew what I was asking. Then he said, “you know, if your key is stuck in there, we are a key-and-lock store. just bring it in.”
I stared forwards for a bit. I didn’t ready a reply for his solution. I quickly stuttered out, “Oh, — but I live in an apartment building, and if I took off the knob, people would probably rob me.”
“You don’t live with anyone?”
“No, and I live far away from my friends, so I feel bad asking them to come over. I mean, I can still get in with the broken key, just — no one else can get in.”
“But you don’t live with anyone else?”
“Yeah, it’s an obsessive-compulsive thing, really.”
Then I tried to end it by asking if they made house calls. He said “rarely.” I said, “Good enough for me, I’ll try to see what I can do to bring it in.” and he smiled at me, shook his head, and sort of chuckled. I left.
I sort of feel like I’m dancing on a wire right now.
“Do you have any close friends, or just collections of acquaintances?”
That’s a question that comes up a lot for some reason in conversation here. It usually follows, “it’s hard to meet people.”
It’s hard, though, to get close to people without a dorm, really. I try to keep busy so I don’t think about people, but I can’t get close to people because I try to keep myself so busy.
But, let’s keep on a high note for this entry — as it’s preceded by two of a more…uh…low-note-feeling. I feel like I’m walking on a wire, but that at least means I have good steps and bad steps. Some days are amazing and fantastic, and I go home and go to bed feeling like, you know, if every day were this good, I’d be set. But other days are sort of, you know — I feel like I’m being avoided, I can’t do anything right, I don’t see anyone I know, etc., etc.
I mean, okay, you can stop reading now, but one year or so ago, I thought of measuring every action and series of actions as approximations of orgasm. I thought it wasn’t productive to take the actual “values” of the approximation, as this varies [what hurts for me doesn't hurt for him and hurts more for him and, ... etc.], but rather the rate of change of this approximation. So, I hypothesized that the more variation from the x-axis [or, the norm] the rate of change of approximation of orgasm was, the “better off” we would be. We would experience highs and lows and not just mediums. It’s kind of strange that I’d actually go from experiencing these mediums last year [the latter half.] and part of first year, to experiencing these highs and lows this year. I don’t really know which is better yet.
I should really just get a new anonymous blog. All my entries are bleeding together now. And it’s embarrassing for any future stalkers to know that I, at one point, was a complete mess.