Work was better today albeit it didn’t start so pretty. A few phone calls this morning set a mood that was so palpable – the Flower and I had to do some gris gris to get rid of it. The good thing about having done this work for a while now is that you know “this too shall pass” and basically you can apply any cliche to workaday life – “whoa what an asshole” – “I can’t believe I just wasted an hour of my time” – but in my job there are a lot of “am I the luckiest person in the world” – “I can’t believe how smart the people I work with are” – it’s the balance of good and evil that make it worth your while.
I think my first therapist years ago – the one that looked like Dr. Ruth because she was so short she had a stool to get on her chair – she said you leave when the balance tips – the bad starts weighing the scale down more than the good. That’s the measure of stick-to-itness.
Hi, Rachel. I have a question. What is the purpose of this blog? It seems to be more of a private journal of the type that most people would write in and then tuck away in a bottom bureau drawer (or a password protected file on a hard drive). Most blogs in which I participate are designed to induce a stimulating intellectual conversation or exchange around a narrow, predefined topic — politics, music, philosophy, etc. I can’t figure out what the purpose of your is. Please don’t be offended. I’m just curious. Thanks.
Well Bill I didn’t know there were prescribed reasons for having a blog – have you read any women’s blogs – most are personal journals and accounts of their lives whether that is adopting a child, getting fired, breaking up with a loved one. Most women’s literature centers around the personal while male authors focus on the external such as politics, sports. This is a natural gender divide that obviously spills over into blogs. I would suspect you have not read other women’s blogs or enough of them, that mine seems such a curiosity to you?
Thank you for your blatantly sexist and presumptive explanation. First, I have read and read a lot of literature written by women so that assumption on your part is totally incorrect. Second, literature by definition is fiction; a blog is non-fiction. Having said that, since blogs are opinions I certainly have no right to question your explanation. Thank you.
If you can’t fuck it, kill it? What’s with your attitude?