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'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2007 9:49:35 am PDT #8607 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I don't think there is a job that demands respect. You'd think the presidency would demand respect, but not so much these days. The person demands respect. Right now she just knows your job title, not you.

Yes. This.


Scrappy - Oct 05, 2007 9:54:13 am PDT #8608 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

What Ginger said.


Susan W. - Oct 05, 2007 10:02:21 am PDT #8609 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Well. I guess it's more about my own self-respect than anything else. I mean, you look at everything I did before I was 22, and you'd see a kid who could've been just about anything with the possible exception of an engineer or a mathematician. And what am I now? Operations Manager for a small department at a hospital. My collegiate peers are doctors and lawyers and professors and successful entrepreneurs and the like. Sure, I'm writing, but until I actually sell a book, what does that prove? For all anyone, myself included, knows, I'm a terrible writer. Of all the things I thought I would accomplish when I was 18 and leaving my hometown, the only one I've succeeded at is leaving my hometown for good.

And yes, I know this isn't the way I should be thinking, but it's really hard to unwrite this particular mental script.


Emily - Oct 05, 2007 10:14:22 am PDT #8610 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I graduated from college at 19. I should be some kinda super-genius full professor or something, right?

Which is to say, I totally know how you feel. Every time I hear about someone from my graduating class, I compare myself to them and inevitably feel like I've fallen short (I'm not advanced in my career, I don't have kids, I haven't traveled the world). And I too know better. I totally feel ya.

I comfort myself with the thought that when I come to write my memoirs, it will all come together. Er, somehow. Why would anyone read my memoirs, you say? Shut up, I say.


NoiseDesign - Oct 05, 2007 10:16:00 am PDT #8611 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

So, I had a meeting about the demon holiday music today and it sounds like it might well be leading to even more work if things go well.


Dana - Oct 05, 2007 10:16:25 am PDT #8612 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't talk to anyone I went to college with. I find that works well.


meara - Oct 05, 2007 10:17:23 am PDT #8613 of 10001

Oooh, more EEEEVIL work, Drew?

I am mostly OK with where I am professionally, but then I never had big ambition to be fancy schmancy. OTOH, knowing that most of my peers are married and having kids freaks me right out and leads me down a "OMG unless I meet someone NOW and love them and get married soon and have kids I WILL BE OLD AND ALONE AND EATEN BY CATS". Which is clearly stupid. But.


Steph L. - Oct 05, 2007 10:17:32 am PDT #8614 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I had a meeting about the demon holiday music today

I love that I have a friend who is able to say things like this, in a work-related context, on a regular basis.


Ginger - Oct 05, 2007 10:19:12 am PDT #8615 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm going to be alone and eaten by cats without ever fulfilling my potential.


tommyrot - Oct 05, 2007 10:20:21 am PDT #8616 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Clearly I need to get more cats if I want to aspire to the "alone and eaten by cats" thing....