If all that nonsense with the car-towing idiots hadn't come up yesterday, I'd be done, or close to it. Thank heavens I'm still roughtly seven months ahead of when this needs to be submitted....
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
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deborah grabien - Aug 08, 2004 5:57:18 pm PDT #5975 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Liese S. - Aug 08, 2004 6:05:10 pm PDT #5976 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I was going to mention the still-ahead-of-schedule bit, but I figured since it was your schedule, you probably knew. Heh.
I can't believe the car-towed-idiots. Amazing, the gall, the temerity, the clipboard.
deborah grabien - Aug 08, 2004 6:12:57 pm PDT #5977 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It was "see, you caused us a PROBLEM" 'tude that got me. Welcome to the Age of Anomie, people....
Liese S. - Aug 08, 2004 6:18:37 pm PDT #5978 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It's like the opposite of empathy. Let me see how I can take anything from your viewpoint and make it totally about me. And how, since I am the center of the universe, I have but to react to these external things that dare to interact with me. Because YOU of course, could cause trouble for ME, but it is inconceivable that I could cause trouble for YOU, much less, that I could cause trouble for myself.
deborah grabien - Aug 08, 2004 6:27:18 pm PDT #5979 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It's mind-blowing, that entire gestalt. I mean, the only reason Rosalinda the Officious Bitch (new! improved! with clipboard!) didn't come right out and say, I don't give a shit about who was inconvenienced, except that it was ME, when Nic asked his question, is because, well, Nic. Large man. Beard. Looking like Gunnar the Destroyer.
Astarte - Aug 08, 2004 6:36:54 pm PDT #5980 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
That image makes me chortle with evil glee. Every. Time.
Liese S. - Aug 08, 2004 6:37:02 pm PDT #5981 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Those are handy to have around. I keep one myself. Very gentle, in general, but Rosalinda the Officious Bitch doesn't have to know that when he comes round.
deborah grabien - Aug 08, 2004 6:43:04 pm PDT #5982 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"I vill nail you to the chapel door! I will pillage! I vill burn your village, er, your Toyota, and ravish your vimmin!"
I love him when he puts it on. So very funny.
Beverly - Aug 08, 2004 10:28:29 pm PDT #5983 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
(Still loving the Viking). Odd, that DH and I were having this very same talk about the general US populace having this odd sense of entitlement, that most child development people tell us we are supposed to work through and get past when we are four or five years old. News flash, the world does not revolve around mememe! The self-entitlement plus the refusal to take personal responsibility makes for a scary bunch of people. And that's what I seem to be running into more and more these days, and less of the service-to-others, my freedom ends where yours begins, do-for-others because it's right, not to put more stars in your crown in heaven.
Mmmsorry. Wrong place for a rant.
Liese, the poem is beyond lovely. It's achingly real, amazingly true, and quite beautiful.
Anne W. - Aug 09, 2004 3:51:47 am PDT #5984 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Beautiful poem, Liese. Both language and imagery are exquisite.