I got into a "discussion" (not for the first time) with my aunt tonight about my inherent cynicism. I tend to believe that the "bad guys," for lack of a better term, tend to win in the world more often than not. I have strange criteria for this, though. I look at Hitler, for instance, who eventually was defeated but took the easy way out...
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WARNING: long post, on a variety of topics on my mind at the moment, and it's entirely too honest to be posting for people that don't really know me, and most people will probably stop reading pretty soon, but here goes anyway:
I decided tonight that I'm going to volunteer to work with Texans for Obama. I don't know what they need, but I can...
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_margot_:
God, it does feel like home, doesn't it?
I was driving with my dad through downtown Philadelphia tonight (and was quite impressed with how he's learned to be a "city driver") and we started talking about my mom's Hepatitus C. Apparently it's a lot more serious than I (and many other members of our family) was lead to believe. She'll be undergoing some sort of experimental treatment near the end of January (a...
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_margot_:
I totally agree, it is something that is really carrying me along, we only get what we can handle in this life, even if it seems bigger than us at the time.
nexus:
Why thankee. 
I feel like throwing up as I write this, so go me. I've been applying to grad schools over the past few days, and the only thing I can't control is, of course, my letters of reference. I had lined up three professors who agreed to give me referrals, but I haven't heard from two of them in at least a month and the only...
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squishypandora:
One of my writing professors got into Brown on letters from members of her writing group. She'd been out of college for a few years though. If you have people who know your writing really well and you're desperate I'd go with them.
ckdexterhaven:
Until you mentioned it, I actually hadn't noticed Ratner's name on the poster. Now it's twice as funny. 
I went back to see some friends in Indiana last week, and for my best friend's wedding (though I'm about 90% certain her new husband is gay, and I'm afraid she'll be the cover wife who has to get divorced at 35, but that's another story). I have several different groups of friends back home, but I really only felt like a part of one...
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cyberiouse:
hey you should try coming here to good old chicago. Good group of people we have here. When i lived in Utah and earlier in life in Tennessee for a short while.Describing the weather in chicago scared the hell out of everyone lol.
ash:
Good 'ol J&H, it's so good to see you on my page again 
Are u really serious, u truly think this chicks husband is gay? What a fuct up situation, jeez. I dont envy your position as a friend to her, are u gonna .. uhm .. mention it to her, maybe? I hope she isnt too blind to the situation to have just married a gay man, lol, maybe she just likes femme guys, who knows?
Moving in your junior yr of HS must have been so shitty!! In HS u think your friends are the most important thing in the world, that must've been so tough on u. Hell, it was tough on me moving when I was 21 across country, so I can relate a bit, but you're just moving all over the fuckin place, arent you? Hopefully you'll get accepted to the texas university so u dont have to jossle your surroundings so much. texas has some really awesome ppl there, really. A lot of my closest and coolest friends came from there, and I still talk to a lot of ppl online that are from TX that rule, so maybe you're just not going out as much as u should or going to the right places? Who knows? Didnt u join the sg tx grp? ttys hun
Are u really serious, u truly think this chicks husband is gay? What a fuct up situation, jeez. I dont envy your position as a friend to her, are u gonna .. uhm .. mention it to her, maybe? I hope she isnt too blind to the situation to have just married a gay man, lol, maybe she just likes femme guys, who knows?
Moving in your junior yr of HS must have been so shitty!! In HS u think your friends are the most important thing in the world, that must've been so tough on u. Hell, it was tough on me moving when I was 21 across country, so I can relate a bit, but you're just moving all over the fuckin place, arent you? Hopefully you'll get accepted to the texas university so u dont have to jossle your surroundings so much. texas has some really awesome ppl there, really. A lot of my closest and coolest friends came from there, and I still talk to a lot of ppl online that are from TX that rule, so maybe you're just not going out as much as u should or going to the right places? Who knows? Didnt u join the sg tx grp? ttys hun
I went to the funeral of my family's friend today. He was in his 90s and expecting to die at any time, but apparently he had been saying that since 1978. I've been to several funerals, most of them in the past year, but as I looked at his body I realized this was the first one I'd been to with an open casket. It...
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cyberiouse:
I know how you feel. I feel the same way at funerals. Even if its someone you are close to. You stand there looking over them wishing you had one more hour with them Or wishing that you could just say something to them or go back and NOT say something to them. Its sadly the way of funerals. Life will move on though for you and possibly for them depending on your beliefs. Cheer up you still have people around you. Friends and family. Cherish them and the time you have to spend with them.
Arrogance irks me more than anything else. I don't why that is; there are other traits that should be more repellant to me, but the arrogant have always gotten to me more than anyone else. I've seen so much of it from our illustrious president that I can't even stand to look at his picture or hear his voice anymore lest I should be physically...
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Oh my God... I haven't been drunk in over two months, since I moved to Texas. And I haven't participated in any drunken postings for far too long. God I love this (until tomorrow, "im sure). Go Cubs! And the upcoming movies of "The Golden Compass" and "Atonement" better be good, or else somebody's getting scalped and castrated, though maybe not in that order.
So I think I'm past that requisite freak-out phase when you completely alter your life in a way that could either be very bold or very stupid (depending entirely on the outcome, of course), and now I'm just trying to find a job in my new city. All I have now is a part-time thing at Barnes & Noble, and I most definitely do not...
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sea:
haha i meant that we were robbed of the title that i felt we had deserved. yes vince young was an outstanding talent that year and deserved it personally, but as a team, i just felt we had earned it.
youre right, this year, USC vs LSU we're taking it!! Pete is the homie.
youre right, this year, USC vs LSU we're taking it!! Pete is the homie.
ninapoe:
Thanx for the comment on my set!
So I just moved to Texas for at least a year in the possibly vain hopes of getting into the UT Austin MFA creative writing program. They have 4 spots for 600 applicants... yeah..... 
It really hasn't hit me yet that I won't be going back to Indiana. I think I'm more nervous about all this than I let myself believe.
It really hasn't hit me yet that I won't be going back to Indiana. I think I'm more nervous about all this than I let myself believe.
Now will saying "yes" get you in trouble at times? Will saying "yes" lead you to doing some foolish things? Yes it will. But don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying "yes" begins things. Saying "yes" is how things grow. Saying "yes" leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say "yes."
I have been living by this a lot lately.