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[turntovines]

So many thousands of different worlds! Here I am, and sometimes when I'm walking down the street I realize that despite all the buildings and cars I'm living in the desert. And palm trees are everywhere, but people landscape their front lawns with cacti. Every time I see a new species of cacti I haven't played with yet, I test how sharp it is

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Drama

[sefrankel]

I know this is the wrong entry, but last week when I read your post about your co-workers intensely dramatic lives, I had one of those "I Know Exactly What You Mean" moments. Pretty much every job I've ever worked outside the laboratory, and sometimes inside the lab as well, has been chock-full of my co-workers day to day craziness. I remember listening to people at Wendy's (back in the day) and just thinking, "Damn, how the hell do you people find the energy for this?" And then, and this is going to sound absolutely terrible but what the hey, I read this book called "Asylums" by a sociologist named Erving Goffman. It had this line that went something like, "No matter how restricted a situation, people will construct meaningful interactions out of whatever society they are a part of." He was a lot more articulate, but the general message really stuck with me, that people will MAKE meaningful, even dramatic lives out of what they have available. And then I realized I was doing it too, and it was like "Awww fuck." Anyway, call me (apropos of nothing).