Some sort of Introduction.
Er yes, well.
Much like my favorite writer, whom you all (or most of you) know and love, I have developed an almost complete dislike of writing introductions or this sort. I however, do not have the tendency to lie about it as a way of avoiding the problem. The problem, you see, is that there really is no good way to start off on of these things, or at least I havn't thought of one yet which is pretty much the same thing in the egotistical little sub-universe in which I live. The problem is compounded by the fact that I really don't have much to say about myself. It's not there arn't plenty of interesting things about me that I could share. Humility, or at very least the vague inclination that I should try to be humble, prevents me from extolling my virtues. Simple good taste prevents me from listing the bad bits, which is just as well since I would seem like a rather despicable person if I listed my flaws and left it at that. Thus, I'm keft with very little to talk about.
I do have one feature which falls messily enough between the lines of good and should I say badish that I feel free to talk about it. At length. In fact, I often hold it up as one of my main features and am at this time attempting to make it into a profession. You see, I am extrordinary skilled in the lost art of forgetting things. Oh, I can hear you now, metaphorically speaking of course. No, what you have to understand is that not a type of forgettfullness charactarized simply by forgetting where one has put his wallet and woking. No this is several orders of magnitude higher that that. I have become able, through various training regimens, to completely and totally forget things which have been said to me as little as twenty seconds prior. Of course, this impressive (if I do say so myself) level of forgetfullness takes a great deal of effort, or rather, a great deal of non-effort. I come to find that while having a good number of pockets becomes confusing at times, it is an abolute neccesity since I will otherwise set random nessecary objects in various places and forget them almost immediatly. I will, as well, have no idea where I have put objects that I may need to take with me when I need home, despite having put things in places _strictly_ so that I will remember where they are.
This all seems rather troublesome, but it has some rather profound benefits. If you happen to see me walking down the street, which is very doubtfull, you will almost undoubtably see me with a smile on my face. This is not because I am particularly happy, it is simply that smiling is easier, and, heres the kicker, I cannot remember any reason to be unhappy off of hand. If I take time, I'm sure I could come up with something to complain about since there is so much of it for me to draw from, but in the normal course of my day it just doesn't come to me that I should be doing anything other than smiling.
Even if someone say something to me, or an unpleasant bill comes, or anything else of the sort happens, I will have completely forgotten about it within a minute. See, look. I've been rambling on, having competely forgotten the point that I was going to make.
It has come to me recently that while I posess to a smaller degree a number of usefull skills, it is forgetting that I have developed to a master art. Should I not, then, be able to turn it into a profession. People have always felt comfortable telling me all sorts of unusual things on the grounds that I probably will have forgotten half of it by the time they are done talking and by the following day I'll be slightly hazy on wether or not we actually talked. It dawned upon me that I might actually be able to get people to pay me for this service. Since I am currently not in a postition to exploit this idea, I've moved it to the backburner for now. However, if anyone has any ideas, feel free to contact me.
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