Corporations are the enemy ( Read more... )

Sometimes, people around me say really terrible things about themselves. I mean, okay, we all do it, right? But sometimes people say them out loud, to me, in a way that I think is meant to be apologetic, but also seems to be seeking at least an implicit agreement. "I'm such an idiot!" you might say, after making a mistake, or "Wow, I'm a jerk," ( Read more... )

When I was in college, I had a very close group of friends, and a small handful of us did annual ski trips together. One of these friends was on the ski team, and various places we went to ski, we would wind up seeing skiing buddies of his from the serious skiing world. In 2000, we went to Utah, and while we were there, we had dinner at the house ( Read more... )

Today, for Figment, I wore a stripy black and white circle skirt, with silver spangles all over it. Because it's a circle skirt, it flares out a lot, and led to this conversation ( Read more... )

A thing that used to happen to me more, but doesn't happen often these days -- thankfully -- is the situation where someone does something that makes me wildly uncomfortable, in a way that I don't know how to respond to in the moment (don't want to be rude, or am so surprised I have no response, or whatever) ... and so I end up laughing ( Read more... )

Who's someone you admire? Why?

One of the tricky social situations that I haven't quite sorted out how I'm happiest handling it is when someone I'm not particularly close to steps on my toes.

If it's someone I'm close to, we have a relationship in which to talk about it and air my grievances, and I probably even want to do that, because by having that kind of conversation, we ( Read more... )

Most people seem to have relationships in their past that they can look at and say, if not, "Wow, that's my crazy ex, all right!" at least, "Huh. That relationship damaged me in some ways, and here's how," or "There was a lot of good in that relationship, but some bad, too, and I still have some of it with me." Of course, no relationship is perfect ( Read more... )

I've been enthusing about this beautiful post about atheism by approximator for the last several days, and saying that I ought to post a link to it. Well, now I have ( Read more... )

If you were to build a temple, what would it be a temple to, or of?

ETA: If you want to take it a step further, what would some of the temples characteristics be? Size, shape, other qualities or elements?