It's a clear, sunny, warmish day and I am going to try to get a run in, and maybe a romp with the dogs, before I go to internship this afternoon for 1pm.
I have a feeling that this semester is going to seem long, but before I know it it will be May and it will be over and done with in the blink of an eye. 12 weeks. 13 if you count spring break, which i don't, cuz it's a break.
There is a person - not really a friend cuz I don't confide in her/trust her at all - in my life who is getting to me because she is a total and complete downer. I generally can block people like this out of my mind but she is wearing me down. I see her every class and I get the sense that because I am cordial to her she thinks that I am somehow obligated to befriend her, which is a concept with which I disagree. Every statement out of her mouth is whiney, complaining, self-centered, angry, etc. She'll start a statement "I had a good day today...except for the blahblahblah." I think she thinks that she is hiding her negativity from the world by saying something positive first, when actually it's just a charade. There's always a "but" or an "except" when she speaks.
Ughh. She is so full of self-pity and the narcissism that goes with that she can't make any useful functional change in her life, then she complains to us how shitty her life is. Oh! I know what it is: she is a professional victim. She will spend 10 minutes telling you about all the valiant effort she is putting into X, but then spend an hour telling you why the world is out to sabotage her valiant efforts.
Anyhoo, this song is on the radio right now and I love it - Caleb Meyer by Gillian Welch. Check it:
Caleb Meyer he lived alone
In them hollering pines
And he made a little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time
Long one evening in back of my house
Caleb come around
And he called my name 'til I went out
With no one else around
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name
"Where's your husband, Nellie Cane
Where's your darlin' gone?
Did he go on down the mountainside
And leave you all alone?"
"Yes my husband's gone to Bowling Green
To do some business there"
And Caleb threw that bottle down
And grabbed my by my hair
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name
He threw me in the needle bed
Across my dress he lay
Then he pinned my hands above my head
And I commenced to pray
I cried my God I am your child
Send your angels down
Then feeling with my fingertips
The bottle neck I found
I drew that glass across his neck
Fine as any blade
Then I felt his blood pour fast and hot
Around me as I laid
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name
I have a feeling that this semester is going to seem long, but before I know it it will be May and it will be over and done with in the blink of an eye. 12 weeks. 13 if you count spring break, which i don't, cuz it's a break.
There is a person - not really a friend cuz I don't confide in her/trust her at all - in my life who is getting to me because she is a total and complete downer. I generally can block people like this out of my mind but she is wearing me down. I see her every class and I get the sense that because I am cordial to her she thinks that I am somehow obligated to befriend her, which is a concept with which I disagree. Every statement out of her mouth is whiney, complaining, self-centered, angry, etc. She'll start a statement "I had a good day today...except for the blahblahblah." I think she thinks that she is hiding her negativity from the world by saying something positive first, when actually it's just a charade. There's always a "but" or an "except" when she speaks.
Ughh. She is so full of self-pity and the narcissism that goes with that she can't make any useful functional change in her life, then she complains to us how shitty her life is. Oh! I know what it is: she is a professional victim. She will spend 10 minutes telling you about all the valiant effort she is putting into X, but then spend an hour telling you why the world is out to sabotage her valiant efforts.
Anyhoo, this song is on the radio right now and I love it - Caleb Meyer by Gillian Welch. Check it:
Caleb Meyer he lived alone
In them hollering pines
And he made a little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time
Long one evening in back of my house
Caleb come around
And he called my name 'til I went out
With no one else around
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name
"Where's your husband, Nellie Cane
Where's your darlin' gone?
Did he go on down the mountainside
And leave you all alone?"
"Yes my husband's gone to Bowling Green
To do some business there"
And Caleb threw that bottle down
And grabbed my by my hair
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name
He threw me in the needle bed
Across my dress he lay
Then he pinned my hands above my head
And I commenced to pray
I cried my God I am your child
Send your angels down
Then feeling with my fingertips
The bottle neck I found
I drew that glass across his neck
Fine as any blade
Then I felt his blood pour fast and hot
Around me as I laid
Caleb Meyer your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name