Diary Prelude: Missing (and trying not to miss) the Point

Anyone's freaked out? Now I am.

How I wonder I would be so sensitive to things around me.
Why can't I just head out and be as thick-skinned as possible and get things done?
Isn't that what everyone else is doing to not end up like... me?

More, on this week's "Freaked-Out Edition" of KN Web Diary...