Thoughts and such of an updatey manner

[goddessdster]

Over at my very favorite book blog with my least favorite name, Jessa Crispin (my very favorite literary critic regardless of name) briefly touches upon that middle place I get stuck in between seeing and knowing how incredibly messed up this world is while still having to get up every day and go to work and not go batshit insane.  It's a tenuous

Comments

[annlarimer]

But but but but you kind of do have to make it about you. If you're not looked after, you can't do your job properly. It's not self indulgence or selfishness or self centeredness, it's keeping your equipment in working order.

[goddessdster]

That's just weird to me. It feels selfish, even though it makes sense. Or perhaps I'm just too good ant tearing myself down.

[annlarimer]

It's like if you send your kid to school, you can't make her study all the time. You gotta do your best to make sure she gets enough sleep and food and gets her ass outside once in a while, so she doesn't go berserk and set fires in the supply closet. Except the kid is you. And the school is...um, I think it's still school. I don't know what the supply closet is.

I would really like to go home and go to bed, is my point.