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[steelspydr]

Man oh man I'm tired. I let this trip to Tucson creep up on me, so was busy doing research, shooting off emails to people, and making the obligatory errand to the grocery store to pick up zip-top zip lock bags for my toiletries (thanks TSA!). Twenty-five percent of my suitcase is devoted to gym clothes, mostly because I am madly in love with the

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[stockholmvictim]

Amen, sister

[steelspydr]

Yeah, it's positive to be surrounded by people like this as it pushes you in ways your other friends don't. Suppose that's the healthy thing to do and all :)

I hear you on your dinner party experience. I just had a conversation about politics, and found myself going with my typical canned response. I had to back track too, and realized my old way of looking at it is so outdated; akin to that 'ah-ha' moment you had with the hole you dug. It just snaps your head around so fast you feel like a moron.

They may be racing out ahead of me, but I'm on their heels!

*hugs*

PS - We need to get together soon :)

[mr_antrobus]

I have the same sorts of feelings when I catch up with old schoolmates from the "gifted" school I attended, not to mention the Wells Scholars from IU. They're out there working on cancer cures and snagging Drama Desk award nominations in NYC theatre, and I feel like I'm underachieving in comparison. And I'm the VP of a (small) company at age 31!

What surprises me more is that there are lots of people in the world who feel no such compulsion to improve at all, who are content to stop learning anything after whatever terminal level of education they received, to stick with the canned political responses for the rest of their lives, and to keep simply muddling through with no variation and no questions. I simply cannot understand that -- but there are a lot of things I don't understand about people, so I guess that fits the pattern.