Your message sounds like an attempt at revisionism, which has occasionally characterized you in the past but only at the proverbial trapped corner. That's good though, I am one of the few Americans who considers such a thing to be assert. To briefly expound, I feel revisionism is an endearing if mildly dangerous quality given that the ( Read more... )

I was feeling a little lonely tonight, but having taught myself German has actually come in handy because I was listening to Klee's Jelängerjelieber album and because I can understand the lyrics, I was inspired to think up my own thought that the universe is speaking all the time in so many ways, even in music and books, and in people I have not ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about what I've been wanting to write. Maybe I need to journal first - I'm at this strange crux where Spanish and German are finally truly becoming natural to me, and where I'm feeling a bit like Bob Dole. Cultural roles for men aren't designed to allow anything approaching feelings, so trying to locate a touchstone to begin ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's hard to see the positive because some people are so belligerent and demeaning and controlling and this and that. At least for me it's really hard sometimes; I still get suicidal thoughts every now and then, though not nearly as much as I used to ( Read more... )

Today's my 9th day in a row, Friday will be my 12th and I think I'm off after that. I don't mind, I'm actually hoping it'll just continue though with overtime this weekend again as I really need the income. I used to always get a thrill of excitement back when the USPS would make me work Christmas Eve and 60 hour weeks during holidays and all ( Read more... )

Oh, I don't think I'd feel comfortable with that superlative as applied to dharma at all, maybe just in my case though. Some sort of refinement of others is more important, such as what teachers do in a classroom or what we as a society do as a whole, but that also hinges on society and its openness and what degree the herd bias is at insofar as ( Read more... )

I was thinking today of all the people who've ever told me that I couldn't do the jobs they do, or that what I do for work is evil, or that getting a mortgage on Madison's lowest-priced duplex in the non-white neighborhood makes me questionably oppressive, and all the other intimations that my lower middle class behavior / near subsistence living ( Read more... )

sitcoms: the party to which you're not even invited

Here's what I'm thinking: coding / web-design / finance / insurance with my strengths

landlording and investing in my spare times

music / acting / writing / poetry and dance as non-profit-oriented subavocations

sometimes bad things deserve to happen to bad places
I still haven't decided who I hate more though, the Me Generation (boomers)
or their spawn, the Me Me Me Me Generation (Millennials)
it's like do you hate the root or the flower