so i'm writing everything down in a spiral notebook

[walkingshadow]

a. in the absence of an actual job, my dad has proposed that he give me money for essentially acting as his secretary. he has ten years of piles of paper—bills, building plans, receipts, annual reports, business cards—and his least favorite chore in the world is sorting through and organizing it all. the paper trail has spilled over into at least

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[bunnymcfoo]

You know, I know it's odd of me, but I absolutely adore it when you do posts like this. I always get a new insight on something, or a new rec to go check out.

Be afraid when I start getting into SG:A, because I am going to be coming to YOU and begging for direction. ;)

[walkingshadow]

heh, i make posts like this when i've been lazy about posting for like, a week, and there are a whole bunch of little things i want to say, and i am TOO LAZY TO MAKE PARAGRAPHS. so yay, i am glad you like them! *g*

Be afraid when I start getting into SG:A, because I am going to be coming to YOU and begging for direction. ;)

ahaha, you say it like it's a THREAT. when really, my pimping ways are slow, subtle, and steady: i don't get many, but i get them FOR LIFE. when you're ready, you just say the word.

[go4it]

I love reading your posts! They always make me think.

Oh, what the heck. I've spent the last couple of months making scarves for other people (and will likely be knitting Christmas Eve anyway), so I'd love a scarf made for me. If you don't have too many requests, that is. My email address is go4it_335 [at] hotmail [dot] com, if you'd rather correspond that way.

[walkingshadow]

hee, thank you! i feel like list posts are my lazy posts, but i make them when i've piled up a bunch of stuff i've been meaning to say . . .

yay! i'm not even going to feel any pressure at crocheting for like, a PROFESSIONAL. (i've taken up knitting, but i'm still in the practice stage, and—really, it's better if i crochet.) do you have favorite colors? *least* favorite colors? people like to say, "whatever you'd like to make!" but it's so much better if it's something YOU want, and, you know, some people look horrible in all shades of green. could you email me your mailing address? i'm at alibisandwine at gmail dot com.

[exnil]

You know what? I would also like to do nothing--more than anything else. And, in between the times I'd be doing nothing or tending to my personal needs (hygiene, food, etc.), I'd like to paint pretty pictures, draw, sculpt, you know, whatever strikes my fancy. But noooooo, we all got hoodwinked into being in debt to society (since birth! since before birth!), so we end up with an obligation to paaaayy it baaaaack. Because of this pressure (concentrated via parental units), I have just started as a deli clerk at the Publix across the street from my house.

I wish I had some real sort of advice for your family stuff. You could say that you just need time to sort things out (as if you hadn't already said it before and they'll ever get it) and sit down for some nice family time watching The Graduate. Somewhere out there/on the internet, there must be discussion group questions for the movie intended for kids too damn smart for their own good, in the middle of a transitional period, and stuck in a "Well, now what?" loop.

[walkingshadow]

in between the times I'd be doing nothing or tending to my personal needs (hygiene, food, etc.), I'd like to paint pretty pictures, draw, sculpt, you know, whatever strikes my fancy.

THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. thank god you understand. like, i want to sleep till early in the afternoon and stay up until early in the morning, and read five books in one week, and then none for another month; i want to be a freaking lady of leisure. where is our independent wealth? isn't that all that's standing between us and, you know, happiness? people try to encourage us (for our ENTIRE LIVES, you're so right, it's conditioning, it's brainwashing) to find something we want to do, and i'm all, why would i *want* to do something that involves a suit, an office, and the hours between nine a.m. and five p.m. (inclusive)? if i don't care about money, can't i just politely excuse myself from the race to acquire it?

first order of business: sit down and watch the graduate. i'm ashamed to say i haven't seen it (though i'm intimately familiar with the