Exhausting Week, Frustration, Activism, Superstition

[britpoptarts]

Well, it's been a busy seven days. The aftermath of the protest in DeKalb County had Anonymous scurrying merrily around to write the media, update various related wikis, and to talk to the local Officers Friendly to make sure all bases are fully covered for the 12 April Operation Reconnect protests.

Incidentally, the "t" key on my laptop has decided

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[floopyboo]

I've been there with the water-damaged art. It really really hurts. From what I understand about breeding, it's like losing a child.

I lost 7 years worth of art during a rainstorm just before my husband came to visit me for the first time. He went through it all for me and threw out anything he didn't think was salvagable. (His mum's an art teacher, so I trusted him on that) After that, we clipped down anything that was damaged on the outer edges & I kept my art in a safer place.

There is absolutely nothing you can do to help the grieving process except give yourself time, and get an art friend to look through it all for you to assess the damage. With time you may even be able to look at the pieces again. It took me a few years to be able to do so.

[britpoptarts]

Yeah, I think that it's roughly equivalent to the loss of a child, but on a much smaller scale. It's an act of creation, after all, and each piece of art is unique even if you try to replicate exactly what you did before, just like kids from the same two parents are all unique

[wonderbink]

Milla, I love you dearly, but the way you handle money makes me want to bang my head against a wall sometimes

[floopyboo]

You're the kind of people I want for friends. I should link to this post as an example of how to be a good, honest friend to a person.

Yo, I did NOT buy a TV set.

[britpoptarts]

This advice would be very good indeed had I actually bought a television set. I didn't. There were three TVs in the house. All were assumed dead. One was not dead, but lightning had blown the fuse connected to the whole room. Once the workman repaired the blown fuse, the TV worked. We carried a fifteen-year-old set downstairs, not a new one. I have no plans to buy a TV until I get to ATL, and will probably be miserly and drag my feet about getting around to it

Re: Yo, I did NOT buy a TV set.

[wonderbink]

I sit corrected. I probably jumped to conclusions based on previous experience with you.

It's good to hear that you're making an effort not to dip too much into your savings, but the way you've been going about it suggests you still have issues with money that need to be examined. You really shouldn't feel wracked with guilt when you buy necessities, be it food or things for your classes.

My Law of Attraction friends would suggest that by expecting doom each time you spend money, you're magnetizing said doom to you. Something to think about.

On a slightly different note, if you have time there's a pretty cool blog called Zen Habits that you might consider checking out. There's lot of stuff about thrift, but also about goal setting, motivation, productivity and simplification. I've found it quite helpful and perhaps it might help you. (My desk is now organized thanks to that site. Think about that for a bit, okay? ME. With a clean desk.)