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Elliot reviews three-day weekends

I hate the power a three-day weekend has over me. I long for it. I want nothing more than to spend three days in my house, doing literally nothing. The idea of being bored interests me. It means I can do anything, and I have chosen to do nothing. The freedom of nothing is just that, it’s nothing. I hate the power a three-day weekend has over me. I plan, sometimes weeks ahead, to ensure I have no plans made. No parties or barbecues to attend, no surprise 84th birthday for my grandma I’m missing. No need to go visit my parents, who own their own free will, I’ll remind you, moved to Indiana years ago, hours away from me and my two brothers. I want to do nothing. I plan to do nothing. I hate the idea of a three-day weekend. How I look forward to it, how I turn around at my computer desk and look at the years long calendar. Sometime I look ahead, two, three months ahead. Oh, we have an extra day off in four weeks! Whatever will I do. I hate the idea of a three-day weekend. I hate the 9-5, ...
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I always find the blank canvas of a word document to be intimidating. Saying that first sentence out loud just sounds stupid. The blank canvas, as if this is some world-altering essay I’m trying to write here. You can fill it with anything, more likely crap than anything else. I always try to have a plan with my writing. I want to go somewhere. Sometimes, I’m successful. I feel like I’ve taken you somewhere, a journey to some destination. Often I find myself falling pretty short of that goal. Most of my writings are reviews for video games, so, as you can imagine, very top-notch stuff. I have always enjoyed writing. The idea of being able to make a living off of something I have written has been my dream for, well, forever. In high school I wrote for my school newspaper, becoming the edition-chief my senior year. Again, a feat I am impressed by, but not something I have ever bragged about, my imposter syndrome is too real to allow for that. Still, it is something I enjoy, and writing f...
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