brian423
Brian Sorgatz
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Revenge on my cruel, unsupportive f...
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Week 52 of 52
brian423 commits to:
disturbing my mother's sleep every night with harassing phone calls. Starting at a randomly determined time between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., I'll spend a minimum of 15 minutes, a maximum of 30, making her phone ring as many times as possible. Either she stops me with a restraining order—which she knows I would consider a badge of honor—or she keeps taking my abuse. Either way, teenagers are the new niggers and I'm the new Rosa Parks. Youth liberation now!
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My Commitment Journal
 brian423
April 18, 2012, 7:33 PM
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VOID CONTRACT NOTICE: With embarrassment, sorrow, and regret, I confess that I have largely failed to do any work toward this goal since October or November of last year. The reports of success since then have been fraudulent, as will be the upcoming reports of success. While I'm saddened and discouraged by my failure to make good use of stickK here, the dark cloud has a silver lining. The other day, I made a friendly phone call of reconciliation with my mother. She congratulated me on the apartment I got about two years ago. I told her about my cat, Mooshika. The conversation went well. I may be fighting the monstrous parents of my adolescence for some time to come, but I won't be expressing my anger through harassing phone calls anymore. |
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brian423
October 2, 2011, 5:29 AM
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I changed my tactics yesterday. Today, I'm doing it again. It's impossible to get past her voice mail anymore. My best guess for an explanation is that she has chosen not to erase incoming messages, thereby keeping the memory full, diverting all new calls to the voice mail, and preventing the phone from ringing. I might as well abstain from calling her until November. Just when she has let her guard down—and maybe built up hopes for reconciliation—I'll strike again. In the meantime, I'm glad to reintroduce myself to the experience of a full night's sleep. CORRECTION of yesterday's journal entry: All through the commitment period so far, I have almost always called her land line rather than her cellular. In desperation, I've been hitting the cellular lately. But that number, the one from which I missed a call yesterday morning, appears to belong to someone else now. Oops! I've inadvertently been prank calling an innocent stranger. Sorry. |
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brian423
September 30, 2011, 7:02 PM
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A tactical modification is required. I have been reaching her voice mail more and more frequently, which presumably means I'm making her phone ring less and less. Starting today, I'll do a harassment session every evening between 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. in addition to the late night session. In other news, something unprecedented happened at 9:21 this morning. My phone rang very, very briefly, hardly more than a second. I didn't even have time to touch it in my pocket. The record of missed calls told me my mother had attempted to call. Mmm, I'm excited now. I can taste blood in the water. |
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brian423
September 10, 2011, 7:44 PM
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I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened to my alarm clock last night. The sun was already up when I examined it, wondering why it didn't wake me up to make the phone calls. As far as I could determine, I had done everything right in setting it to wake me up at the appropriate time. Yet I don't remember making the calls last night. Either there is a subtle mechanical problem with my clock radio, or I brushed off the alarm in the middle of the night, switching it off and going back to sleep without having woken enough to record the memory consciously. Yesterday, I wrote "void contract notices" for four other stickK commitments, but not for this one. Tonight, I resolve to make up for the lapse by putting in two separate fifteen-minute calling sessions. I would much rather do that than admit failure and lose some of my money to the pro-lifers. |
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