Part of the beauty of private practice counseling and independent contracting is that I really don't have to deal with people I don't like.  Coworkers who annoy me?  I'm off to lunch with a friend.  I have errands.  I'm going to go sit on the street corner and drink espresso.  It is so entirely none of your business.

It is beautiful.

My knee with ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find that their Flist sometimes goes entirely in the same direction of mood even though they are not friends with each other?  I've noticed it every day for the past week.  Happy, sad, bitchy, crazy, depressed, angry, tired.

I don't think I'm projecting.  :-)

Anyway, I don't have a lot to say and now I feel pressure because my friend ( Read more... )

• I gave my therapist my book today to read which is interesting since she is essentially in it since it is essentially an autobiographical account of the Collective Disasters of 2008 with enough made up stuff to be called fiction and force the reader to wonder which parts have semblance of truth.  (I could go on and on about how all fiction has ( Read more... )

Once upon a time ( Read more... )

Poll The Most Random Poll You Will Ever Click On

1. Oh the politics are tiring.  Snore.  Ugly is as ugly does.

2. I'm voting for
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A smattering of thoughts I've had in my first three hours of work today:

*The worst book I was ever forced to read without fail or question (although Jonny Tremaine is a close second) was The Old Man and the Sea.  I hated that book.  I put off reading it until the day before the thing was due.  I hated the biblical references.  I hated that I was ( Read more... )

10 things I think you should know about me ( Read more... )

Snippets of things this morning ( Read more... )

Since I was housebound for the weekend and continue to be for today, I have only the Sunday paper, Netflix, and the internet to guide me through the outside world.

So, here are a few of my unsolicited thoughts, opinions, and memories.

Malcolm X

This movie came out in 1992 when I was in sixth grade in a small little corner of Iowa.  I never saw it ( Read more... )