The Society of Sadness and Evil Defeaters [Log 1]

when I sent out the subscription link I told myself I’d be happy if I got ten or twelve folks but we’re slightly past that now and the free version of this service only allows up to a hundred, so we’ll see how long we can hang out here. In the meantime, please sit down, have a drink to drink or a horse to hold, get comfortable.

Hello. I’m so glad you’re here.

-o-

DEFEATS:

1. FLY LANDED ON MY SHOULDER

   Very bad. Did not enjoy at all

2. TOOTH FILLING CAME OUT

   I was eating a bag of fuckass candy corn at Somerset MRT when I realized I had swallowed not only the corn and the candy but the goddamn filling the poor dentist who looked like he came from my evil junior college did for me (for free! because of health insurance!). People were right about candy corn being THE ANTICHRIST. I was a fool who did not listen. Now I suffer the consequences ($100 filling + shame)

3. WENT TO SINGAPORE

   It is a terrible country. I won’t bore you with the details but let me bore you with the details. The humidity is a solid 100. The men are a solid 0. The food is fantastic and everyone thinks I’m a freak of nature because of my overwhelming swag.

   I will be honest, it is dealing me somewhere between 600 and 900 psychic damage points but WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS NIGHT or we’ll DIE in it and the latter is not an option so. Fine, fine. We’ll get through it.

TRIUMPHS:

1. BOUGHT NEW ZEALAND NATURAL ICE CREAM ON SALE 50% OFF (2 PINTS)

   This is a most exciting story. I was coming back from dance class last night when I realized I wasn’t gonna make it to the local NTUC before it closed. This was a problem because New Zealand Natural ice cream (assorted flavors) was on sale for 50% off until the end of the night. Listen up kids. You will not get fancy ice cream for $6.85 often in this economy so when it comes you RUN. I RAN. Through Bugis and into the MRT and onto the train and off the train and up the escalator to the bus stop and onto the bus and off the bus into the NTUC only to find that the sale label had been Removed. It was Gone.

   Sweaty, red-faced, and sobbing faintly I went to the poor guy at the cashier and I was like (holding out phone with trembling hands) my ice cream… and he was like it’s still on sale, you made it, and in my head I was like I will kiss you on the cheek. Outside of my head, I said thank you, and got my ice cream.

2. WENT TO THE BEACH

   I went to the beach with my friend C this week. The weather wasn’t fabulous but it wasn’t disgusting, it was more of, like, the inside of a steamer plus clouds. So at least the sun wasn’t blasting down and trying to evaporate my armpits!!!!! We picked up trash and looked for bones. I think I might have found a few + what looks like a finger + what looks like a hardened cigarette + 1 shell.

   We also saw a mouse… Beach Mouse… Where will he go…

   

3. BUS DRIVER SMILED AT ME WHEN I SAID GOOD MORNING

   This offsets when it was 8 pm and I said good afternoon and the bus driver Laughed

DANCE CLASS COUNT: 3

CAT: PRESENT

LISTENING TO

-o-

Employment status: I applied to clean toilets at some international school AND wrap biscuits at a cafe AND supervise children at a student care center (and 19 more less interesting jobs) so surely one of them will say yes

Reading: The Left Hand of Darkness. I read it for the first time my sophomore year of college and it made me cry, something which is no longer possible. This time I hope it gives me the strength to make it out of Singapore alive.

A&C (Arts & Crafts)

someone else’s words for a much needed change of pace

look! Open your eyes; listen, listen.

This is pulled from the author’s note of The Left Hand of Darkness.

Look! Open your eyes! Listen! There’s so much of the world in the world.

I know, it’s hard to see sometimes. If this were the old newsletter, whose name I have forgotten, this is about where I would dovetail towards a strong and affirming note on optimism and faith and the unbreakable human spirit. This remains true. I believe that we can do the things we set out to do because the alternative would be to think we are doomed from the beginning. And that cannot happen. We can’t give it all up! Are you listening? We’re the Society of Sadness and Evil Defeaters! We defeat the things that are strange and lonesome and scary! We come out on top!

Of course, we still lose sometimes. If we didn’t then there would be nothing to defeat and we would simply be a long line of bullet trains coasting along the flat surface of the planet, which would be terribly uninteresting. No, we’re on the path of greatest resistance. We’re real crazy like that.

It isn’t always glamorous. Hell, it usually isn’t. Usually people look at you funny and think you’re a little funny in the head or you’re not really going to make it out in the real world, that you’re just wasting time. But my guy, we’ve been given so little time. Barely a blip in the vast ceaseless fabric of the universe. Might as well spend it on things we give a shit about.

What do you give a shit about? What triumphs and defeats did you encounter this week? Let us share our wins and commiserate over our misery. Or perhaps you are content to sit and watch the clouds pass. This, too, is true.

Hi, hello, good morning. I’m so glad you’re here. I can’t wait to see you again.

Juno

-o-

Notes:

What did you like? What did you find absolutely unworthy of vampiric possession? Have a question for me? Let me know.

Because I am using the free version of this service you can’t reply directly to this email, but if you are so inclined, feel free to drop me a line at corpsentry@gmail.com. There are plenty of questions in this letter for you to reply to. Or you can make up your own! Please also let me know if it is ok to share your thoughts in the next log, or if you would prefer to lay low with the worms.

I’ll see you very soon.