MY LIFE - SEPTEMBER

Thursday, September 21, 2000

It's worse today. This cold is getting worse and has left me feeling a little weak as the day's gone on. I'm more stuffed up now and I've been sneezing all over the place today, which isn't a pleasant thing to do since my sneezes typically register on the Richter scale. Felt the earth shake a little bit? It was probably me sneezing. I have some powerful sneezes and these were certainly along those lines. They're violent sneezes and you can hear them if you're in the same general area as I am. It makes driving treacherous because if I sneeze at the wrong time, I could be involved in an accident.

Imagine trying to explain that to someone you have just hit.

"It's my fault, I sneezed."

"Yeah, right. You're full of shit. Get ready for a lawsuit."

Don't even laugh. With my luck it'll happen.

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I had someone ask me why it seemed like I generally got along with most people that I've worked with or been around and it made me stop and think for a minute. Only a minute though because I already knew the answer to that. I'm not someone who appears to be threatening, I don't look like I just dragged myself in from the street, I'm not someone who steps on people's feet, and I won't say the stupid thing too often. Simply put, I treat people how they treat me, and since most people are cool to me, I'm cool to them.

It was like that once I got into high school. A lot of the popular people talked to me and generally treated me like I was cool, especially some of the girls like Crystal Graley. She probably helped my cause the most when I was a freshman because she talked to me and even hinted that she may have liked me. Since she was widely considered the best looking girl in our grade, that helped me out a lot. But just about everyone seemed to act friendly with me, so it wasn't hard for me to get along with people.

It didn't matter who it was either. They could be one of the most popular people in the school and they'd talk to me, or they could be just another face in the crowd. It never really mattered to me. I treated them how they treated me so I was getting along with everyone.

It's the same thing now. If you're cool to me, I'll be cool to me. If you're an ass to me, then I'm an ass to you. It's how it goes with me and is probably a key reason why my relationship with my dad detoriorated so much. He was bad to me so I was bad to him, much to the chagrin of those around me. But it's the principle I go by. If you want to be friends with me, you have to be cool to me because I don't show a whole lot of respect to those who aren't. It's give and take, which has worked pretty well for me to this point.

I'm not a judgemental person though. You can't be judgemental with people because it will come back to haunt you. That person you decided wasn't good enough to be your friend could be the person who decides whether or not you'll keep a job or get a promotion, or something along those lines. That girl you didn't feel was worth dating? Now she's the hottest girl around with a bunch of friends and she knows that's the only reason why you're cozying up to her now and she'll point that out to her friends.

But you can't judge people. It just isn't worth the trouble down the road.

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Tribe Watch 2000

Cleveland Indians, 8-8
Boston Red Sox, 9-5

Summary

The Indians and Jason Bere blew a 7-0 lead in the first game, eventually losing 9-8, but came back to win the nightcap 8-5 to split the day and take 3 out 5 in the series that may have knocked Boston out of the playoff run. Red Sox insiders had been saying the Sox needed to win 4 out of 5, but with the Sox losing three of the games, their season is all but done. The Indians used two out hits to score all their runs in both games and got good pitching from Chuck Finley in the nightcap to earn the split and keep them even with Oakland in the wild card race.

Record

83-68