It is odd because we've been posting together for months, knowing we have TT in common, and have never gone any further than that. Who goes "Oh, I know another lower-cased 'ita'" and who goes "LA martial artist 'ita' from the West Indies? Probably some other chick!"

Apparently us.

We'll see what she replies. I'd laugh if I'm on her LJ friends list or something.

Jesse, I try to block that story from my memory. DAMN YOU!

ita, it is totally you.

My TIVO will not connect. No Gateway found. This is going on 2 weeks and chat help Tivo lady could not help. HATE

Jesse, I try to block that story from my memory. DAMN YOU!

How could it not come back to me?? Yikes.

Giles and House are both on this ep of MI-5. It's kinda weird.

Jools Siviter! My favorite non-primary character on Spooks!

I'd have watched a whole spinoff about him.

Re: Plan B and not having one is better for your art - Joe's wants to make movies/commercials/etc and be great at it. Great at it enough so that it's what he does to help support our family.

However.

As the one who has been paying the bills through her salary and has been the one who has stressed over our ability to pay for rent, electricity, and food? His plan A is helping support the family he a) chose to build with me and b) is damn well a part of. And he knows it. Which is why, despite hating every minute of it, he spends 11 hours a day, 6 days a week driving a cab. The rest of the time he isn't sleeping, he's applying for other full time jobs.

But I guess I'm lucky in that even though Joe's plan A is being a film maker, he is equally passionate in making sure his family is surviving and he's not deadweight.

Also, I don't think that the following of dreams and the sacrifices therein apply only to art and artists. Lord knows it would be infinitely easier to finish my degree so that I can follow my - albeit latecoming - dream, but that's just not realistic. We need health insurance. We need food on the table. We need to be productive members of society. It would be different if I was 20 and had no one else to be responsible for - that was why I moved to LA to get discovered. But I'm not. I'm staring 40 right in the face and I have a child who depends on me. I do not have a trust fund or parents who are willing or able to give us money. We've had to ask for it and I hate it. I think it's ri-damn-diculous to be almost 40 and ask my parents (or anyone) for money.

*shrug*

My point is that, if the passion is there, it'll find its way out and it'll get appreciated by whomever you want to appreciate it, dayjob or not. To think that it won't is just indicative of the fear of succeeding. Cause the instant you succeed, people expect you to do it again and it was damn hard work the first time. Trying to do it the second time has got to be agony.

"I know another black chick like you--you're not that special!" I might be extra special, or completely duplicated. Dunno.

Ask her if the other chick she knows had a moon named after her.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson best not diss my Clyde Tombaugh. He can demote Pluto, but DO NOT diss Clyde.

Ha! I should ask him to autograph a photo of Clyde at TAM. I can totally be That Person.

As the one who has been paying the bills through her salary and has been the one who has stressed over our ability to pay for rent, electricity, and food? His plan A is helping support the family he a) chose to build with me and b) is damn well a part of. And he knows it. Which is why, despite hating every minute of it, he spends 11 hours a day, 6 days a week driving a cab. The rest of the time he isn't sleeping, he's applying for other full time jobs.

But I guess I'm lucky in that even though Joe's plan A is being a film maker, he is equally passionate in making sure his family is surviving and he's not deadweight.

You are. You really, really are.

Ask her if the other chick she knows had a moon named after her.

Heh. That is kind of the clincher, isn't it?

So, can someone tell more about the rabid beavers?

I live nowhere near Philly, but for some reason, I am quite concerned about out of control beavers.