| "Bear-cunt" |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|03:27 pm] |
I love this hat! Popularly known as a "bear cunt". (I think bathroom mirrors are so alluring because you're bound to look more glamorous than your most humble surroundings).
I toy with the thought of getting a short, androgynous haircut. that can only fly when the one sporting it is reallly skinny though, and I'm not quite there (...yet!). But one can dream! :)
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| The update meme (which is actually helpful) |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:12 am] |
From the illustrious ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dryad271 :
"You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out."
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first name: Let us stick with Happydog, yes?
age: 49
location: Louisiana
occupation: Counselor/Therapist at a rehab facility.
partner: K, who is quite protective of her privacy and will remain "K" for the foreseeable future. We have been married for umptheeen years.
kids: None whatsoever. I like them, as long as I can give them back. I have nieces and nephews, and that really is enough.
brothers/sisters: One brother, two sisters. They all live in Mississippi far away from civilization.
pets: Sir Walter, Maneki Neko and Queen Anne, who are cats, and Buddy, the dog
list the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life: I think probably work is one of the big things, although I wish it was not. There's a lot going on at work and it demands way too much of my time. What I DO want to do more of is writing and music, and those are the other two things that I am in the process of taking back those parts of my life, and expressing them more.
parents: Yeah, but I'd rather not give their names, honestly. They're both in their 70s and both are still alive. My dad is a basic, down-to-earth man, grounded, from a huge country family. My mom is a little more uptown, introverted, the sunday school teacher and brooder of the family. Guess whose genes I got.
who are some of your closest friends? K, of course. Many of them are not online, but zeldakitty is one of my oldest friends in the online and offline world. I would count anaar and 127fascination among them for sure.idiomagic and gira are among the people I value as well. But there are also so many people on my friendslist who I value, and who I am trying to figure out a way to meet with in person. |
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[Nov. 25th, 2009|02:32 pm] |
Just spent a short week in Barcelona with great company. Needless to say I had a glorious time. :) Hope I'll get around to posting pics later... But then again, I always say that and never perform, eh? ;)
Here's one for starters. I sit in dreary, dark, rainy Oslo and just realized that oslo is infact anti-Barcelona. Puke!
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| assorted with assortments |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|01:45 am] |
Damn, I almost let 10 days go by before posting something.
I was supposed to get a replacement at work - somebody who would take my old job, so I could move to a new position within the company. He stayed a week and got a paycheck - and then disappeared. Does not return phone calls. It would almost be worth it to call the police and get all panicky and say "He must be in danger!" so they could kick down the door and catch him smoking dope or getting ready to go to his other job or masturbating or something, whatever he decided to do instead of work for the company.
Because this happens all the time, people just cop out. They just decide they're not going to do it, and they don't bother to call or anything, they just bug out. It gets me pretty angry, actually. It's not ethical, it's not honest, and it's not right. I wouldn't do it. I mean, even if I didn't want to face my erstwhile employer and say "I just don't want to work here, sorry," I would at least call up and say something like "My wife just got a job in Gondwanaland and we're going to have to relocate, sorry," or "I have the bubonic plague," or "Won the lottery! Going on a hot air balloon expedition around the world," or something.
A lot of my friends are doing this thing where they write down daily something that they are thankful for. I am not doing it because I am not feeling it. I'll be honest. This whole stretch of the year, from Thanksgiving through Christmas, is something that I'm not all that comfortable with. Let's be honest, the Pilgrims were pretty awful human beings overall - unbearable, humorless, life-hating, oppressive, patriarchal, miserable motherfuckers who were so absolutely awful that they were unable to get along with anybody in England or the Netherlands, primarily due to their being unbearable, humorless, life-hating, oppressive, patriarchal, miserable motherfuckers. It's not well known but once they got to the New World, they survived, initially, due to grave robbery and desecration of Native American mounds. So basically what were they thanking their God for? The fact that they had survived by stealing and cannibalism and had managed to fight off the original owners of the land long enough to create a "colony" in an abandoned Native American village whose original inhabitants had been killed by smallpox.
Personally I owe those guys nothing because my people are from France via Canada. So, maybe I should be thankful for not being related to Puritans.
But on the other hand, just because I'm not feeling something doesn't mean I shouldn't do it anyway. As a matter of fact, I probably should be doing it because I'm not feeling it. But then again, there's a part of me that rebels against that simply because I already do a lot of things that I don't feel anyway because I have to, so why add one more thing to the list of things I don't want to do and will end up not doing?
Yes, resistance is our word of the day/month/week, ladies and gentlemen, and I do not know why or wherefore I am resistant.
But "not feeling it" is not a good enough excuse any more. So if I can be thankful for nothing else, I can be thankful that I can self-question enough to push my own limits and strive to understand my stubborn self better. |
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| It's time for a new plan |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|05:52 pm] |
I'm not sure the "one year in Florida" plan is actually going to come to fruition. We've both changed our focus a little since coming back from NY and me starting this temp. job and such. It started with a resume-request from one of O's friends, for a position in Palo Alto, CA. This is the same company he was considering during the summer, but we ruled it out because of location. Now, however, we're starting to wonder if we need to change location because let's face it - things have not been all that promising for us here in Florida. We'd both been hoping this possible position was in the company's DC-area office, but it turned out to also be in CA.
However, the company does have a similar (though not identical) position in their DC office. This realization got some wheels turning for both of us, and we're both feeling like maybe that area is the way to go. If anywhere is going to have a decent job market at all, it's going to be that area first. And we have friends there. And the seasons, while much milder than NY, still change there. And it's closer to NY. And there are long-term opportunities there in fields we both desperately want to get into.
And it's not on the west coast, which is looking to be our other major option. If we have to do that, we will. But neither of us want to, particularly. (The thought of it still makes me want to cry; I'm just afraid of closing any doors right now.)
I am posting this as a desperate plea for prayers/positive thoughts/etc. Please keep us in your thoughts in the coming weeks as we try to put this new plan in motion. Please pray that this works out for us in the way we are hoping. I am praying as hard as I can, myself. |
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| Dumbass |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|07:52 am] |
I left the keys in the ignition last night, and not fully turned off. The car won't start this morning. Waiting for Geico's roadside assistance folks to come help. Great impression to make during my first week of work, no?
*sigh* |
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