{"id":67,"date":"2005-03-10T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kilcher04.net\/2005\/03\/10\/say-hello-to-the-walking-contradiction\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T04:02:14","slug":"say-hello-to-the-walking-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello To The Walking Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">i am (or should be) currently in the climax of my pseudo-academic life, where i will be mercilessly quizzed and tested about the things that i had learned in the past 5.5 years of my life; not exactly put those things in practice though, bummer. anyway, in less than a month, i will be taking the ece licensure examinations. i should be focusing all my energy, my whole being, my chakra, in all its entirety on three subject matters that could literally spell my doom: communications, electronics and good ol&#8217; math.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">but what am i doing? after about a year of being stagnant, after a year of literally having a pseudo-writer&#8217;s block, i now find myself writing nonstop about everything and absolutely just about anything that would come to mind. i can now just yap and blabber about whatever it is that i&#8217;m currently thinking. i find myself putting words on paper (or into a series of 1&#8217;s and 0&#8217;s to be encoded and decoded by the computer), spewing out verses and seeing things in such an otherworldly way as if there&#8217;s no tomorrow. i find myself thinking and reciting artsy-fartsy nonsense in my head like there&#8217;s no board exam waiting around the corner, biding its time until it&#8217;s the right moment to put my head under the gallows. or the smasher, either of which doesn&#8217;t anymore matter. same difference. it&#8217;s still my head at stake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">i know i should be thinking of antennas, wave propagation, satellite communications, logarithms, microwave stuff, waveguides, physics, AC and DC circuits, related rates, calculus, and other geeky stuff right now; not of rhyming words and melodramatic sentences. not of how beautiful the setting sun was this afternoon. not of the uncanny way i&#8217;ve produced another nonsense congregation of words while sitting on my bed and supposedly solving through the review books. and definitely not of the fact that i&#8217;ve been pretty productive in writing during the past couple of months than i was the whole of 2004.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">say hello to the walking contradiction.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">i am panicking, entirely afraid of what the results will be. i cannot concentrate fully on reviewing because there are lots and lots of distractions (american idol is one teehee). i am panicking. and awfully stressed. and the only thing that i can think of to calm myself is to write nonsense like this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">and yet i should be spending that time on studying instead, not blabbering about seemingly useless ideas and wordy stuff. i should be bothering myself with numbers, not with words; with equations, not with phrases. i should be thinking of facts and transmission standards, not of the beautiful things that comprise my parallel universe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">but how, how on earth will i be able to study if i&#8217;m panicking? if i&#8217;ve got another anxiety attack coming up? if i suddenly find myself pacing back and forth along the length of the room? thank goodness, cara&#8217;s asleep, i can&#8217;t pace anymore, lest i step on her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">say hello to the walking contradiction.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">i said i was addicted to planning everything in my life. but right now, i&#8217;m kinda lost. i don&#8217;t know what to do anymore. i have to study, i have to study, i have to study. but i don&#8217;t want to. i don&#8217;t want to. i don&#8217;t want to. oh holy crapola! what am i gonna do?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><!--more-->took the pre-board in math this morning. i literally sucked. and to think i studied my butt off the last three days. what a bummer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">another contradiction: i just realized lately that i hate math. yeah, i graduated from an engineering course but i really, really, really, really hate math.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Old comments can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/kilcher.tabulas.com\/2005\/03\/10\/@756046\/#comments\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am (or should be) currently in the climax of my pseudo-academic life, where i will be mercilessly quizzed and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=67\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[427],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}