Dull Life

How many ways can a person say "unfortunate?"

Here are a few of my favorites:

• Calamitous
• Cursed
• Deplorable
• Doomed
• Ill-Starred
• Ruined
• Untoward

It's a good thing I don't gamble, because I would be sure to lose.

A long time ago I told my mother to paint the spare bedroom orange. Orange is my favorite color. But as my circumstance has changed, I find myself removed from my bedroom in my parents house and relocated to the orange spare room. I recognize now that asking my mother to paint the room orange was a bad idea.

Last night a friend and I played the "would you rather game." I chose being able to read minds over being able to see the future. I said, " I don't want to know the future."
I've already changed my mind. I don't want to know what people are thinking as much I want to know if the things I am spending my time on are a waste of time or if they're worthwhile.

Here are a few things I wish I could have known more about prior to wasting loads of time on them:

• The aforementioned orange spare bedroom.
• Moving home for the 4th time.
• Learning to work in Borders Bookstore and then finding out that I'll be working in the life sucking and incredibly dull Kiosk by Hollister.
• Countless romantic endeavors.

Here are a few things I'm sure to waste my time on because I have no idea what the outcome will be:

• This whole moving to New York City thing I'm so into right now.
  
• College.
• Photographic equipment.
  
• Countless romantic endeavors.

There are a lot of wretched outcomes to the things I attempt and I can't help but wonder, as many people do, when it's going to start moving the other direction.

Some antonyms of "unfortunate" are:

• Happy
• Lucky
• Good
  
• Timely

That's what I want. And I think being able to see the future might help me towards these things.

Oh to be lucky...