marlowe

did i read that right, you're moving here?? (yes, i'm really in Boulder, not Lichtnen-whatever). i can't wait!

You should do a new set Merry xmas

The message option thwarts me, so I'll leave this as a comment. Sorry for the length.

Re: The standard liberal arts degree job panic

I can only speak from personal experience. I parlayed a degree in Early Modern English Lit. into a desk job in insurance. You can interchange a lot of cubicle jobs with similar qualifications. A lot of places just want a bachelor's degree and don't particularly care what subject it was taken in. Again, only from personal experience, I can't recommend that course though. Ten hours a day between four grey-carpeted walls is as deadening as lithium.

I had financial and family obligations, so I pretty much had to bite the bullet. If I'd been freer or more selfish, though, I'd have taken on the debt, gone to grad. school, and been a much happier man.

I don't know you at all, so you'll have to draw your own conclusions. If you want stability, you can pull down $30 - 35K out of the box (considerably more in metropolitan areas) in insurance and other similar fields. (Hell, even T.S. Eliot spent years working in a bank before he came on at Faber; and Wallace Stevens passed on lecturing at Harvard to maintain his executive position in an insurance company.)

It's all down to what you want and what you can stand. I'd say spend a year trying to do something you really want to do, if you can afford the luxury. You'll always have a fall back with a degree.

In any case, I truly wish you all the best, however the combination of fate and your own wishes happens to lead you.

Man, those are some crazy eyes.

that is probably the most profound thing I have seen in a while.

arrgh, i'll get something good in here, I know it...

Ricky should have signed a multi-episode contract.

GREAT !!! Thanks alot !! I laughed and then I felt bad, and now that song is stuck in my head !!

I must hear that about ten times a day, thanks for the top 40 stations here in Atlanta!! Between that and Ferguliscious I wish I was deaf, seriously. And since when did V103.3 start Bible beating in the AM, funny to hear DMX and then suddenly hear about having a blessed day.....huh?

Ok, I was being fetitious in the beginning, but that picture is funny, that kid may have made it himself you know and be very proud of it

PS. If you need me, you can find me in th A

Gay.

What are you up to lately (other than school, I'm sure)? We miss you here in Atlanta. Now that I've got my own place please know my couch is yours anytime.

Are you coming down for the holiday party?

you think you've heard it all at 21?

interesting.

When the rhetoric people give is always the same, I think I've heard it all at 19.

I agree with much of what you said Marlowe, not all of it though. I agree with what you said on a "self-centered" America, but that's not just our country, that's almost everyone in the world, it's more prominent here, perhaps, because in America we exonerate and value the individual and indiviualism over teamwork.

But that comes hand in hand with true personal freedom.

As for your third, more personal anticdote, it sounds a lot like an experience I went through not too long ago. I find it interesting, looking back, the subtle things that can completely change your life.

Now, as for what you said about passionate people, I'm a firm believe that there is "one" right way, and many "wrong" ways to do things. Same for believing something, someone's going to be right, the others will be wrong.

However, I don't think it's for me to decide exactly WHO is wrong and how, and it's not my place to judge, even when, deep down...I know I've been right all along.

That's definately part of it, I think my system kind of covers the physical aspect of things only. I don't really have an explanation for the intellectual parts, aside from the fact that:

1) Education, drive, and intellectualism are now so under-vauled they've almost becomed lauded as dirty words.

2) The average individual is only interested in the immediate, IE "What can I get from this relationship now."

3) People like me, who still stick to old school absolutisms and a basic system of ethics are a fast dissapearing, dying breed.

All three points bother me, but I can only really govern myself, anyone else is just going to do what they want, despite what you tell them. That's just what I think.

And I appreciate your thoughts.

that game sounds great.