Comments on: Let’s Cheer Each Other Up http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/ America's favorite blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:38:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-19261 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:45:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-19261 Kate, The world is a very, very hard place, a place made more violent, more dangerous, significantly less humane, and significantly more insane by His Brain-damaged Delusions of Grandeurness, currently of 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue, Washington, DC and Ersatz Ranch, Crawford, Texas. But I thoroughly enjoyed the post anyway. Glad I have this compulsion to check older threads from time to time. Kate,

The world is a very, very hard place, a place made more violent, more dangerous, significantly less humane, and significantly more insane by His Brain-damaged Delusions of Grandeurness, currently of 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue, Washington, DC and Ersatz Ranch, Crawford, Texas. But I thoroughly enjoyed the post anyway. Glad I have this compulsion to check older threads from time to time.

]]> by: Kate http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-19067 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:10:35 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-19067 This isn't my own happy news, but a newspaper clipping I've saved for 10 years or so-- perfection, really. Goes like this: "Today is June 24. I had a small carton of milk in the refrigerator here at work. The expiration date on it was...June 24! I poured the milk into my coffee. There was just enough. I didn't plan to have any more coffee or to use any more milk... I held the empty carton at arm's length, sighed with contentment, and let it fall with a satisfying thud into the wastebasket. Such moments of the cosmic joining of desire and resource are rare. They should be savored and, if possible, shared with one's fellow beings. Maybe the world's not such a hard place after all. Maybe there is hope for redemption. And maybe, just maybe, fate will see fit to allow just one or two minor dreams to come true. Or maybe I'm working too hard." (Thanks to one M. Crabtree of San Francisco.) This isn’t my own happy news, but a newspaper clipping I’ve saved for 10 years or so– perfection, really. Goes like this:

“Today is June 24. I had a small carton of milk in the refrigerator here at work. The expiration date on it was…June 24! I poured the milk into my coffee. There was just enough. I didn’t plan to have any more coffee or to use any more milk… I held the empty carton at arm’s length, sighed with contentment, and let it fall with a satisfying thud into the wastebasket. Such moments of the cosmic joining of desire and resource are rare. They should be savored and, if possible, shared with one’s fellow beings.
Maybe the world’s not such a hard place after all. Maybe there is hope for redemption. And maybe, just maybe, fate will see fit to allow just one or two minor dreams to come true.
Or maybe I’m working too hard.”

(Thanks to one M. Crabtree of San Francisco.)

]]> by: younggasshopper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18391 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:18:53 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18391 Hee hee...but the good part is MOMENTS later, I received another email from the still as yet UNidentified friend-in-need saying: "HEY AGAIN! Apparently I was able to get away and they gave me the Legion of Honor, instead. No file needed." Well, I'm glad i was able to help! Hee hee…but the good part is MOMENTS later, I received another email from the still as yet UNidentified friend-in-need saying:

“HEY AGAIN!

Apparently I was able to get away and they gave me the Legion of Honor, instead.

No file needed.”

Well, I’m glad i was able to help!

]]> by: younggasshopper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18390 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:14:50 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18390 Like Mo on the plane....I also had a strange feeling like the world could be on it's way out, when I received an email this morning saying: "Mimi: The French got me at the border and for a moment I thought you might have to send me a cake with a file in it, to the Bastille, but talked my way out of it, and now on my way to Vinci and will give your regards to Leonardo..." Um...I don't klnow who this is from or what this person was meaning me to do...whoops. Like Mo on the plane….I also had a strange feeling like the world could be on it’s way out, when I received an email this morning saying:

“Mimi:

The French got me at the border and for a moment I thought you might have to send me a cake with a file in it, to the Bastille, but talked my way out of it, and now on my way to Vinci and will give your regards to Leonardo…”

Um…I don’t klnow who this is from or what this person was meaning me to do…whoops.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18293 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:39:11 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18293 Due process? Hasn't that devolved to We're all gonna get processed as is our due under Glorious Leader, the braindead west Texas semi-sentient pile of locoweed masquerading as an actual flesh-and-blood human being. Has anyone checked the sonofabitch for a dorsal zipper? Oh, yeah, though I don't know you from Adam's housecat (does Adam have a housecat?), Alexandra, I got a kick out of your posts and I, too, wish you the best. Due process? Hasn’t that devolved to We’re all gonna get processed as is our due under Glorious Leader, the braindead west Texas semi-sentient pile of locoweed masquerading as an actual flesh-and-blood human being. Has anyone checked the sonofabitch for a dorsal zipper?

Oh, yeah, though I don’t know you from Adam’s housecat (does Adam have a housecat?), Alexandra, I got a kick out of your posts and I, too, wish you the best.

]]> by: SeattleDan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18133 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:53:23 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18133 Congrats, Alexandra. I'm hoping that we still have due process for you to protect once your career gets started. Congrats, Alexandra. I’m hoping that we still have due process for you to protect once your career gets started.

]]> by: Alexandra http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18128 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:13:13 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18128 Great article. And I'm one (half) step ahead of you, Siobhan--I've got my law student's membership dues all paid up. And soon I'll be off and championing our glorious Constitution and its erosion by those illegal (and thinly veiled) line item vetos! ...as soon as the advil kicks in anyway... Actually, my forte is defending our individual rights to Due Process as a public defender. But I can't start getting paid until results come back in late November. So, in the mean time, I'm going to wait for the marine layer to burn off and feed my brain some much needed Vitamin D...you know, so I can come back in full force when the time is right. Like Batman. Great article. And I’m one (half) step ahead of you, Siobhan–I’ve got my law student’s membership dues all paid up. And soon I’ll be off and championing our glorious Constitution and its erosion by those illegal (and thinly veiled) line item vetos! …as soon as the advil kicks in anyway…

Actually, my forte is defending our individual rights to Due Process as a public defender. But I can’t start getting paid until results come back in late November. So, in the mean time, I’m going to wait for the marine layer to burn off and feed my brain some much needed Vitamin D…you know, so I can come back in full force when the time is right. Like Batman.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18123 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:42:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18123 Yea! Alexandra!! Hip hip hooray! Now you can join the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/washington/24prexy.html?ex=1311393600&en=b748a5a2247f3591&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">ABA</a>! Yea! Alexandra!! Hip hip hooray!
Now you can join the ABA!

]]> by: Alexandra http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18117 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:25:21 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18117 OH! And thanks Dee! I'll try to keep it together until I get back home tonight!!! I don't think public...sick-en-ness..??? is how I want to start my new life as a (pending) lawyer. ...but, I might not have a choice. ;-) OH! And thanks Dee! I’ll try to keep it together until I get back home tonight!!! I don’t think public…sick-en-ness..??? is how I want to start my new life as a (pending) lawyer. …but, I might not have a choice. ;-)

]]> by: Alexandra http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18116 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:22:56 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/14/lets-cheer-each-other-up/#comment-18116 My life HAS begun!!!!! ...and I have absolutly no idea what to do with it.... It started yesterday at 5 with a very irate proctor dismissing us all at once. Some of us were crying, some were yelling, and I was trying to refocus my eyes while realizing that sitting on metal chairs for 10 hours a day, 3 days in a row, has given me my grandfathers hips. But that's okay...because today, I'm free for the first time in my whole life. It may sound strange, but some girls dream of their wedding day...I've dreamt my whole life of...well...Friday. Friday after the Bar. And it's here, and it's a bitch to get used to. I got tired of sitting on the couch around noon, so I decided to go for a bike ride...but my handlebars were loose. So I rode it, very carefully, to the bike shop for a tune-up, and aimlessly wandered around Santa Monica for about 20 minutes. It was about the longest 20 munites of my life. Ever. Because I alternated between laughing at the absurdity of the fact that I could actually shop all day if I wanted to, everyday, for the rest of my life...and suddenly falling into a panic because I was SURE I had to get home RIGHTNOW to do something...I just didn't know what it was. So now I'm back, drinking Korbel Brut with the roomies, and watching a marathon of Sex in the City. And trying to get used to...well...life. Enjoy it, Peeps. I know I'm going to. And thanks for all your love. --AK My life HAS begun!!!!! …and I have absolutly no idea what to do with it….

It started yesterday at 5 with a very irate proctor dismissing us all at once. Some of us were crying, some were yelling, and I was trying to refocus my eyes while realizing that sitting on metal chairs for 10 hours a day, 3 days in a row, has given me my grandfathers hips. But that’s okay…because today, I’m free for the first time in my whole life. It may sound strange, but some girls dream of their wedding day…I’ve dreamt my whole life of…well…Friday. Friday after the Bar.

And it’s here, and it’s a bitch to get used to. I got tired of sitting on the couch around noon, so I decided to go for a bike ride…but my handlebars were loose. So I rode it, very carefully, to the bike shop for a tune-up, and aimlessly wandered around Santa Monica for about 20 minutes. It was about the longest 20 munites of my life. Ever. Because I alternated between laughing at the absurdity of the fact that I could actually shop all day if I wanted to, everyday, for the rest of my life…and suddenly falling into a panic because I was SURE I had to get home RIGHTNOW to do something…I just didn’t know what it was.

So now I’m back, drinking Korbel Brut with the roomies, and watching a marathon of Sex in the City. And trying to get used to…well…life.

Enjoy it, Peeps. I know I’m going to.

And thanks for all your love.

–AK

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