Buffy ,'First Date'
[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.
"Your problem is that you don't know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem."One of my Social Studies teachers in 5th or 6th grade had this thing of learning the difference between "wants" and "needs". It was a rather good lesson, one I still heed to today. It helps with the frugal side of me.
"Your problem is that you don't know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem."
This is huge. I wrote an article recently about how to put out your 'catastro-fires'...based in Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy. It's so liberating to be able to see the difference between 'it's killing me!' and 'it's uncomfortable.'
I'll have to go back and read some of my Robert Fulghum. I remember loving 'It was on fire when I lay down on it.'
Don't get me wrong--I think we all have a right to our feelings of frustration or anger or grief. It was just a reality check for me, personally. Powerful.
It's just, to have that little anecdote stated with such clarity...normally when I'm confronted with How Much Worse It Could Be, the enormity of the Worse is too much for my little brain to deal with. It's like, when we lived in Romania it was a really really hard winter, and the city was starving. There was a segment on the TV news about how rats had eaten a baby in a cradle. I have no idea if it was true or not (Romanian news tended towards the Weekly World News with comfortable frequency), but it was just one more thing in my day to day existence of people with no heat, no water, no food, no medical care, no hope.
On a lighter note, I've decided that my new hair is Scully hair: [link]
It's totally Scully Hair, and it's fabulous!
Awesome haircut!
Raq, you look GORGEOUS! Love the hair and the rest of you!
Beauty!
Very different, but really flattering in every way.
What amych said!
And yes, I know what you mean about the enormity of the Very Bad. I think the simplicity of the story he told was what made it so powerful for me. That and the way he implored the room full of LA girls, many very privileged, to make a difference in their world through love. It was no longer a cliche when he said it.
HOLY CRAP Raq!!! That cut is divine and you look spectacular!