a small set of random thoughts
1. Beck's new album, Modern Guilt, keeps reminding me of the band Ribbons. Like if you had taken their album and Beck's sea change and tossed them in a blender for a few seconds. It also sort of reminds me of some of the stuff I was hearing in China; but then, so does Ribbons.
2. It can be very frustrating to sit on one's hands in order to not pick a fight. So I will say it here instead. Saying "Buddha is not a deity" as a general statement of universal truth is a pretty problematic oversimplification. It's totally fine to say when discussing one's own faith, belief, understanding -- particularly if taking a historical perspective. But to say it as if it's some simple fact that everyone should just agree with because it's so obvious? Not so much. Absolutely, sometimes he's not a deity. But you know, sometimes he effectively is. It's a completely valid, accepted, and functional usage/conceptualization.
3. I have definitely become more descriptive and less prescriptive with age. I wonder if this is going to negatively impact my work in future editing positions.
4. I am really kind of horrendously terrible at keeping up with people. But at least I remembered to call jadia back and we talked for nearly two hours. :D
5. I love %100 juice Capri-Suns.
6. Despite my current flailing, I really am incredibly lucky. Alternating between weirdly content and crankily homicidal, but. So, so lucky.
2. It can be very frustrating to sit on one's hands in order to not pick a fight. So I will say it here instead. Saying "Buddha is not a deity" as a general statement of universal truth is a pretty problematic oversimplification. It's totally fine to say when discussing one's own faith, belief, understanding -- particularly if taking a historical perspective. But to say it as if it's some simple fact that everyone should just agree with because it's so obvious? Not so much. Absolutely, sometimes he's not a deity. But you know, sometimes he effectively is. It's a completely valid, accepted, and functional usage/conceptualization.
3. I have definitely become more descriptive and less prescriptive with age. I wonder if this is going to negatively impact my work in future editing positions.
4. I am really kind of horrendously terrible at keeping up with people. But at least I remembered to call jadia back and we talked for nearly two hours. :D
5. I love %100 juice Capri-Suns.
6. Despite my current flailing, I really am incredibly lucky. Alternating between weirdly content and crankily homicidal, but. So, so lucky.