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Yesterday, I:
Had steak and eggs for breakfast (bloody rare, sunny side up, with yukon gold hash browns, and a bowl of strawberries);
Worked out for an hour on the punching bag;
Found a wicked sweet antique scythe someone had just left on the street;
Had hours of kinky sex (a girl who can gracefully walk backwards on her knees is a true treasure);
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Had steak and eggs for breakfast (bloody rare, sunny side up, with yukon gold hash browns, and a bowl of strawberries);
Worked out for an hour on the punching bag;
Found a wicked sweet antique scythe someone had just left on the street;
Had hours of kinky sex (a girl who can gracefully walk backwards on her knees is a true treasure);
Had...
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wildswan:
No. No, you haven't. Now I think the only equitable thing to do is to answer my questions.
phantasy:
I hope it didn't belong to Death because he'll likely be back for it. 
Other than that, can I have your life?
Other than that, can I have your life?
There's a Zen story where this one monk keeps getting hit on his head by the master, no matter what he does. His life is totally miserable, and he puts in a request to transfer to a monastery in the South. The master denies his request, and as the disappointed monk slouches off, another monk asks the master why he didn't agree to the transfer....
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aleksa:
I prefer spanks and bites, personally.... (TMI?) 
aleksa:
Sorry, I got "TMI" from working with cops, everything is abbreviated with that lot.
Ah, it sounds like we're both getting an education. Apparently I've been with less informed "performers" in the past.... (And I'm saying that in more of an intrigued way than sarcastic or snide.) So, probably stinging.
Ah, it sounds like we're both getting an education. Apparently I've been with less informed "performers" in the past.... (And I'm saying that in more of an intrigued way than sarcastic or snide.) So, probably stinging.
"You think you work hard? You spoiled American brats have no idea how good you have it!
"In Old Country, every day, the Commissars would chain me to a plow, and force me at gunpoint to plow an entire field. I worked twenty hours a day, except in Spring, when I work double shifts. Then, they would keep me awake by driving nails into my...
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"In Old Country, every day, the Commissars would chain me to a plow, and force me at gunpoint to plow an entire field. I worked twenty hours a day, except in Spring, when I work double shifts. Then, they would keep me awake by driving nails into my...
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felicia_____:
It seems that you are much more of an optimist than I.
wildswan:
Where are you? Where do you need to be? Why have you assessed yourself as being so far away from that place?
Today, cute girls gave me:
Two smiles,
One shy smile (which is extra special),
A giggle,
A "Hellllooooo" (I kid you not), and
One saucy sidelong glance.
I must be cute today or something.
Two smiles,
One shy smile (which is extra special),
A giggle,
A "Hellllooooo" (I kid you not), and
One saucy sidelong glance.
I must be cute today or something.
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wildswan:
You know what? I guess it is kinda distracting 'cause I haven't asked my questions yet. I'm usin' my energy trying to remain disciplined and not be all saucy. 
So, yesterday I woke up thinking it was Tuesday, which is a day off for me. When I realized it was actually Wednesday, and that I would have to go in to work, it was like Anti-Christmas. I was so rattled that when I went to the store for the fixings for my lunch, I discovered that had actually put on two different pairs...
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redbstrd:
My happiness is spliced with some bitterness though. For instance, I had a girlfriend when I went to Russia in late January. We stayed together and I remained faithful. Two weeks before I came back, she decided to leave me because she wouldn't have time for me. Of course, my broken-heartedness and lack of time really kept me from having a shot with any of the Russian girls I had previously turned down, so I couldn't even pursue any of the opportunities I would otherwise have had.
So, I don't know if I could really agree with you on the level of happiness comparison at the moment, despite the fact that I generally am an optimist.
So, I don't know if I could really agree with you on the level of happiness comparison at the moment, despite the fact that I generally am an optimist.
wildswan:
Depending on the where-to-teach, the what-to-teach may become more clear. By that I mean that teaching at university is a much more complicated decision. Unless you are a very popular professor teaching a popular course, it's difficult to make money. If you teach grade school things are relatively laid out for you. Not that I know what factors are attractive or unattractive to you.
Ticking away, the moments that make up the dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Picking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, say you're going to watch the rain
And you are young,and life is long, and there is time to kill...
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Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Picking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine, say you're going to watch the rain
And you are young,and life is long, and there is time to kill...
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wildswan:
Ahhh... Dante's Inferno. Sorry that I took that literally rather than literarily. Cherry stuff that. Sorry for the second typo in my apology for the first. Effing typos. I'm not really dumb. I won't mention the whole high IQ, Presidential Scholar, NHS stuff - whoops, does that qualify as a mention? I'm just very, very, silly.
I have known masters of gloom in my time (German gloom) so I am a bit desensitized. I'm also kinda Coo-Coo from my partially self-imposed aloneness.
What did you really do on your birthday?
I have known masters of gloom in my time (German gloom) so I am a bit desensitized. I'm also kinda Coo-Coo from my partially self-imposed aloneness.
What did you really do on your birthday?
wildswan:
You have an interesting family background.
Atheism is a struggle. It must recognize that not everything in nature has a purpose, that nature is indeed fantastically wasteful, and that we are not, after all, the heroes of some personal epic leading to eternal glory, but rather flawed and fragile animals with an existence brief in space, time, and understanding.
The evidence for this surrounds and permeates our history and our lives,...
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salome:
Thanks for the sweet comment. If the nasty tag came from who I think it came from, pfffft. That girl is a train wreck and her insults mean nothing. On to brighter and nakeder things. 
salome:
It's true, what you say, that dogma liberates you from freedom. And (I think) that was probably the point I was making. We're on the same page.
The other day, one of my coworkers came by (on her day off) and dropped off some donuts for us. She was wearing a Republican campaign t-shirt, which I thought was odd, because I hadn't pegged her as a conservative, especially not the brazen kind of right-deviationist you'd expect to go around advertising their attitudes by wearing some damned counterrevolutionary t-shirt. I mean, she's older,...
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salome:
Well, what do you expect from Republicans other than an Evil World Order? Voldmort is how you spell George W. in, um, aboriginal Thai. 
I made that up.
Oppression? That's what Eastern Europe is all about! Let's fight a war! Maybe throw in some genocide and centuries-old grudges, just for the fun of it!
I made that up.
Oppression? That's what Eastern Europe is all about! Let's fight a war! Maybe throw in some genocide and centuries-old grudges, just for the fun of it!
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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salome:
And philosophy! You're my new best friend on the site. I like philosophy too, though I lean toward the Sartre end of things. However, I often get nasty comments that I'm not on the site for my existentialist musings 
We must band together.
We must band together.
salome:
Those Germans. Good thing they've moved on from Wittgenstein to the degenerate hedonism that I witnessed in Berlin on New Year's Eve.
Nakonets, nashla eshchyo russogovoryashchogo filosofa. I have never read Isaiah Berlin; I will add that to my already-long list, so don't be surprised if I fire philosophy at you six months from now. Pick up "The Stranger" by Camus, it's a short and interesting read. Also, what's your take on Waiting for Godot, and how it fits/doesn't fit into the existentialist paradigm? One of the reasons I love existentialism is that the big names are very keen on exploring and demonstrating their worldview through literature, and I thought Godot ... well, I'll wait to see what you think.
Nakonets, nashla eshchyo russogovoryashchogo filosofa. I have never read Isaiah Berlin; I will add that to my already-long list, so don't be surprised if I fire philosophy at you six months from now. Pick up "The Stranger" by Camus, it's a short and interesting read. Also, what's your take on Waiting for Godot, and how it fits/doesn't fit into the existentialist paradigm? One of the reasons I love existentialism is that the big names are very keen on exploring and demonstrating their worldview through literature, and I thought Godot ... well, I'll wait to see what you think.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
- Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32)
I don't hold the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition in high esteem, as a rule. But I do respect sentiments like this.
I just wish I exemplified it better . . .
- Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 32)
I don't hold the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition in high esteem, as a rule. But I do respect sentiments like this.
I just wish I exemplified it better . . .
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I think my Louis needs a cat friend.