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Tentacles is my term β the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. Like, for example, my American History class last week, which necessitated me writing a paper on the weapons of the Revolutionary war, which necessitated me traveling to the Metropolitan Museum to check out some of the old guns, which necessitated me getting the subway, which necessitated me being away from my cell phone and email for 45 minutes, which meant that I didnβt get to respond to a mass mail sent out by my teacher asking who needed extra credit, which meant other kids snapped up the extra credit, which meant I wasnβt going to get a 98 in the class, which meant I wasnβt anywhere close to a 98.6 average (body temperature, thatβs what you needed to get), which meant I wasnβt going to get into a Good College, which meant I wasnβt going to have a Good Job, which meant I wasnβt going to have health insurance, which meant Iβd have to pay tremendous amounts of money for the shrinks and drugs my brain needed, which meant I wasnβt going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant Iβd feel ashamed, which meant Iβd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldnβt get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing β homelessness. If you canβt get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.
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