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*cough, cough* Bullshit! *cough, cough* It may feel that way, but I guarantee you what you say is patently untrue. How many gorgeous women, models and actresses, etc., suffer from drug addiction or eating disorders? How many of their marriages end in divorce? Seriously! If attractiveness guaranteed happiness, TABLOIDS WOULD BE OUT OF BUSINESS, soap operas and reality shows would lose their appeal. The truth of the matter is that happiness has far less to do with attractiveness, income, and intelligence and much more to do with how you treat and think of yourself. You have all the tools to be the happiest person you know. You are truly loved by a great many (and pretty damn awesome) people. Yeah, life may get you down, but you are equipped to deal with it. And if you're feeling particularly weak at this moment, call me. We'll meet for coffee and I will gladly spend a couple of hours reminding you how wonderful (and pretty) you truly are.

It is the last word....in the dictionary: ZZZ.

Are you sure? Okay. What if I post a shit ton of political press releases. Not the analyses, the press releases sent by the respective candidates....no, you would think that was fun, too. Jack, you ARE a dull boy.

Summer. I want summer to come back. I didn't get nearly my quota of thunderstorms. They all tortured neighborhoods to the South. All I got to see was them pass us by.....

You're all wrong. I'm in the right.

YOU lost the game. I win at Spider Solitaire 97% of the time out of nearly 450 games, so there. I'm a winner.

You can always hang with us on weekends if school allows. And hang in there. It's better to be lost and confused with a degree than without one. I know. I'm lost and confused without one and I STILL have a buttload of loans to pay off.

Yesh, but how to harvest them without further impacting the sediment layer AND ensuring we mitigate their spread to additional territories? ACK! Antarctica has crabs!

I don't know. Do you dedicate most of your time to it and it gives you a headache and pays way too little for that much of your effort?

Someone with a background in forensic accounting should filibuster in here. That'd get 'er done.

I like to think that I have a basic level of respect for almost everybody. In every one I know, I can usually find some things I admire about them and desire to emulate. In nearly everyone I know, there are some qualities or quirks I think need to be reworked but are not my prerogative to change and I should just let be. I remember hearing when growing up that it was important to "be careful who your heroes are," for "you have diminished yourself in some way." For a long time, I remembered that because I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever heard. It wasn't until later that I realized that it could mean a couple of things that make a good deal of sense. The first is that when we idolize people, we forget that they are just people. We set ourselves up to be disappointed when the real and human truth about them comes to light. Or, when these things do come to light, we censor them out of our story of this person. Scarcely do we remember that Ghandi disowned his gay son or that Einstein was a really poor spouse, or that Wittgenstein was censured for physically abusing the school children he taught. Secondly, we tend to abase ourselves in relation to our heroes and overlook many of the same qualities and assets we possess that can allow us to do great things. Buddha was just a man. He didn't believe in gods and was frustrated that he was so idolized in his lifetime because what he taught he thought everyone was capable of practicing. Even Rosa Parks, who is generally thought of in this really sort of folksy way that she just happened to be on the bus and just happened to take a stand, was just a person, but just a person who decided to be part of a group that orchestrated the protest and chose her to make take that stand. What it comes down to is this: Now that you know who you love, how are you making what you love about them part of your life and self-image? When you walk by the river and see someone drowning, are you prepared to do something about it? Or if you have a dream that could help change the world for the better, are you ready to start taking the little steps necessary to make it happen? What is keeping you from being a hero? It certainly isn't your humanity.

Oh. THAT list. I was thinking the list was 'men named Enrico.'

I find that I work best this way. I need to stop fighting it and just make time for naps. Especially because sleep disorders run in my family and it may just not be possible for me to get good sleep in a single block.

But sleep improves memory function and makes you more efficient.

I'm not in school, exactly, but I am back in classes. I'm making myself take every learning opportunity that Michigan Works! provides, inclusive of tutorials in 2007 and 2010 Microsoft Office programs and several workshops on job hunting and interviewing. When I get done, I hope to feel more confident about my skill set and my ability to project this confidence in an interview as well as have developed a much clearer picture of where I want to go in life and just how I'm going to get there. So far, I really like the instructor. I hope that he will mentor me in my search, even beyond the scope of Michigan Works! and help me get my entrepreneurial projects off the ground (Spook's too).

Agreed. Besides, how closely are they following up on these donors? Can they be sure of, and provide, medical histories? In the case where both a sperm and an ovum are purchased, are they sure the donors aren't related?

Watch another episode chock full of historical weapons eviscerating human analogs. Awesome!

I love this show! I love my husband! I love the rare flank steak I had for dinner! This is day is awesome! It's just full of awesome! Yay! Best Monday EVER! And I got some laundry folded.

Incorrigible, you mean. It's a whole world of incorrigible.

Best time on the expert level at Minesweeper is 196 seconds, currently.

If you read carefully, you will see such treatment is contingent upon my actually starting a new thread. My "workload" in regards to pleasuring my husband is determined by my ability to curtail my impulses to bore you all to death. But this all digresses from the real topic at hand, which I am still not ready to address directly. For now, I am puzzled: what does it mean to be "scientifically apt?" I understand the words individually, but not in conjunction.

Only every day. It's not just that I don't have anything of real intrinsic value to contribute to the conversation, because we all know that isn't a requirement. No. It's that I feel I should only obligate my significant other so many times to respond to my lame-ass excuses for wit; to wit, maybe once a week if I give him about three backrubs and twice as many blowjobs in half as many days. Yep. My fingers and my jaw ache. Timely topic, there. Wow. Okay. Jaw rested......

Oh yeah, tough guy? Well, I just reset my statistics and I have now won 100% of the games on record at the expert level in Minesweeper and it only took me 30 games and 56 minutes to do it. How's that for rigging the record?

I have won 406 out of 416 games of Spider Solitaire. What have you done? [totally sarcastic thread. i mean, those stats are real, but i don't think it's anything to brag about. it's kind of like winning at tic tac toe when you play against your cat.]

Watched a really bad movie just now on Netflix. AVN: Aliens vs. Ninjas. It was bad, but in a fun way. Alien abortions are adorable.