askye, in Natter:
The hardest thing isn't living in this world, it's learning how to let go of the past hurts, make peace with them, and move on. You want to hold on to them and bind them to you tightly because "this hurt me" and "This made me" and you define yourself by it. But after awhile you can't keep defining yourself by something that happened decades ago. If you keep holding on to it---pain or happiness or whatever--you stagnate and you stay there. You can't go forward or become something new because you are trapped with that. And it's hard to let go, you put it down and then you look at it. It's so familiar, the feel of it---joy or sorrow---it fits just so in the space you've made for it, so you want to catch it up again and fit it back in its place. Instead what you have to do is find new things to fill up that place, new things bring growth.
I know it's declasse to quote oneself in COMM, but I'm just the set-up.
In Smallville:
me:
The wet TW was really funny! Oh look....nipples!
Vortex:
I wonder if there was a fluffer.
PMM
other than MR?
Shawn in Smallville (whitefonted just in case):
I was too busy marvelling at how, yet again, Clark is not responsible for the deaths of his enemies. He's like freaking Magoo.
billytea
(And I swear this isn't an "I'll scratch your back" thing)
I think my parents' motto was "We are like unto the mighty ocean, our children the sponges that dwell therein".
The kids' motto was "Are you going to eat that?"
And another from billytea:
erinaceous: Oh god I am so inspired. Billytea, how does one become an actuary?
Without, you know, doing any actual MATH.
billytea: Oh god I am so inspired. Billytea, how does one become an actuary?
Well, first you--
Without, you know, doing any actual MATH.
Ok, that gets a bit trickier. Hmmm. Here's what I recommend you do.
1. Go to your local cinema. Buy a ticket for About Schmidt. Take notes about how to behave like an actuary.
2. Return to your local cinema. Buy a ticket for Catch Me If You Can. Take notes on how to outwit Tom Hanks.
3. Compare notes. Construct a persona halfway between Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Most importantly, ensure the persona's age is between Jack Nicholson's and Leonardo DiCaprio's.
4. Get a job in a country with remarkably lax corporate governance. (No, laxer than the US.)
5. Sit back and watch the zlotys roll in.
ita, in Bureacracy, confirming what any fule kno:
I dismember
Context is for pussies.
Jen: I'm really psyched. Enough so that I'm tempted to use an emoticon.
Cindy, in Firefly, on the show's chances:
So like...Jamie Kellner and the WB? That's going to take a lotta Hail Marys.
CNN Headline News: This morning our bureaus in Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn, East L.A., New Orleans, Dublin, Madrid, and Rome, have received multiple reports that Roman Catholics all over are waking up to find their rosary beads missing. On mirrors in each home, written in bright red lipstick were the words, "You Can't Take the Sky From Me."
Police suspect a cult is at work and have not ruled out the Raelians. More on this story as it breaks.
Elena, in the holiday thread:
That's funny. I always thought that if Trudy ever took one for the team, it would have been sex.
