What Ginger said.
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
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.
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....
Emily - Oct 05, 2007 10:20:49 am PDT #8617 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I figure I'm fulfilling my potential internally. Fulfilling the heck out of it. You can't see it, but it's totally fulfilled.
Because of all the thinking I'm doing, you see.