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[February 06, 2009 @ 2:38pm] |
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Far too much has gone on for me to really put here, because at the same time, absolutely nothing has changed. I'm 24, I have fantastic friends, a man that loves me, a man I love, and a family that's better than anyone could ask for. We're still working on the job situation -- and getting more focused on the money issue as we go.
For now, since I don't want to expand much more than that, I offer you my new twitter account and ( the widower: )
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| Girl Math |
[January 04, 2009 @ 5:46pm] |
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Cory always says "See you in a little bit" whenever we part ways. It's a very strange thing to say, if only because I can't sort out his logic on the point. For instance, he'll say it when I'm leaving for work -- an 8-hour shift, during which we won't see one another at all. But he also says it when I'm pulling into our parking lot and we hang up from a phone call -- in which case, a "little bit" equates to about 40 seconds. So he uses the phrase for increments from mere seconds to many hours.
I suppose maybe his thinking on it could look something like this in equation form:
time spent apart/the rest of our lives
and if, in this equation, "time spent apart" is 8 hours, whereas "the rest of our lives" (also known as, "time expected to be spent together for the rest of our lives provided we become merged at the hip and never sleep") could be, say, 50 years (438,000 hours), then comparatively, that is indeed a "little bit" of time.
Even if we were going to be apart for three weeks (504 hours), that is a far shorter amount of time than compared to the "the rest of our lives" scenario. Give or take other days we would be apart (the math on that, if you're curious, give or take a few hours and as-of-yet unknown plans/incidents and excluding sleeping, is 104,000 hours for working 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, for 52 weeks over 50 years), the amount of time we would spend together (maximum: 104,000/438,000), we still have the possibility of 334,000 hours to spend together -- a whopping 76% of our lives. So a measly 8-hour shift is nothing in the grand scheme, right? It's a "little bit" of time.
I ask Cory. He says, "I'm not sure when a 'little bit' becomes 'later' or soon, etc. I think as long as it's the same day, then a 'little bit' is okay [to say]. Occasionally I'll use 'later' if it's most of the day."
Oh. So he's thinking in terms of a day-to-day basis, rather than looking at it in terms of the rest of our lives. This means, by the way, that -- provided we work the same shift (which is highly unusual) and not opposites -- my boyfriend thinks 33.3% of our entire day is a "little bit" of time.
How romantic.
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| *Ahem* |
[September 14, 2008 @ 4:17pm] |
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I have an apartment! :D
Pictures to follow.
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[June 20, 2008 @ 7:06pm] |
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If you want me, come get me.
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[April 18, 2008 @ 4:59am] |
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Okay, so, Holy Jesus, that was scary.
I'm sure all you Californians are rolling your eyes at us Midwesterners, but HOLY CRAP OMG WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE EARTHQUAKES.
That little shit woke me up, too. Piss. Now I'm hungry.
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| The Rainbow Fish |
[March 11, 2008 @ 11:05am] |
I don't know if any of you have ever read the Marcus Pfister story The Rainbow Fish, but in a nutshell, ( this is how the story goes: )
Now, after reading that, I want to know your thoughts. I wrote an outline that will probably turn into a twelve-page paper, based on a five-page book. Specifically, I want to know the following:
1. What do you consider sharing to be/how would you define sharing?
2. Do you consider sharing necessary?
3. Do you consider sharing a social expectation? A personal expectation? Both?
4. Would you say sharing could be a benefit to our social structure? As in, correcting poverty, disease, and violence. Or would you say these things are borne of sharing?
5. What does it mean not to share? Would this cause the proverbial death of civilization?
6. The book promotes the belief of sharing bringing happiness. Why? And is the Rainbow Fish actually happy?
7. Is sharing learned or innate?
8. What is the statute of limitations on sharing? As in, when does sharing become too much?
9. At the deepest level, who benefits, specifically in this story?
10. What are our children supposed to learn from this story, and what do they actually learn?
Pick and choose, if you want to answer. I'm seriously going to write this paper. I think it's important.
Plus, I'm bored.
(Note: The Rainbow Fish and all the words associated with it in the summary above belong to Marcus Pfister and I have no claim or authority over them.)
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[September 30, 2006 @ 12:13pm] |
FRIENDS ONLY
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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