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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2010, 10:56:28 am » |
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Sunday night. Breathe.
Aw, man. Repeats already? |
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"Suddenly one of my great satisfactions in life is knowing I'm not a character in an Anne Rice novel." - Hafidha |
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2010, 11:52:25 am » |
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Sunday night. Breathe.
Aw, man. Repeats already? *SNORK* You are evil, man. I almost believed you for a second there. And then I laughed my ass off. |
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2010, 05:41:01 pm » |
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Sunday night. Breathe.
Aw, man. Repeats already? *peals of laughter* |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2010, 06:56:55 pm » |
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Oh, Ed. You owe me a keyboard.
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tylik
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« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2010, 07:11:12 am » |
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Squee? Squee soon?
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« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2010, 07:28:50 am » |
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sometime tonight, probably later in the evening.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2010, 08:42:56 am » |
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Ah, the siren call of late content. My cute little tablet, it says it is ready to serve.
Though the not too soon is probably good for me. Must finish abstracts*, and send them to PI for review. Must teach class.
Then I get to debate about whether I'm staying up later because I'll be heading out to the West Coast soon, or going to bed earlier because I need the rest... Mm. Content.
* Proposal abstracts are depressing. I go through my standard writing process, including obsessive cleaning of dishes while I refine my thesis, and it takes forever, and at the end they're a maximum of 250 words. *headdesk*
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« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2010, 10:53:33 am » |
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* Proposal abstracts are depressing. I go through my standard writing process, including obsessive cleaning of dishes while I refine my thesis, and it takes forever, and at the end they're a maximum of 250 words. *headdesk*
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2010, 11:24:40 am » |
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But ooh, aren't those dishes clean?
You should see the sink. It practically glows. |
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« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2010, 12:00:05 pm » |
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But ooh, aren't those dishes clean?
You should see the sink. It practically glows.  For me, it's the bathtub. Almost all other housecleaning is a result of feeling good. A clean bathtub is a result of avoiding work. |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2010, 02:08:29 pm » |
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For me, it's the bathtub. Almost all other housecleaning is a result of feeling good. A clean bathtub is a result of avoiding work.
OMG me too! Toward the end of my dissertation I scrubbed it once a week. |
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« Reply #26 on: August 01, 2010, 03:26:11 pm » |
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I'm so happy - I came here to see if anyone else had seen new content, and the News thingie read: I hate you. Where's my content? Happy happy joy joy - only new content could make me happier.  |
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« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2010, 04:05:10 pm » |
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For me, it's the bathtub. Almost all other housecleaning is a result of feeling good. A clean bathtub is a result of avoiding work.
OMG me too! Toward the end of my dissertation I scrubbed it once a week. I tell myself that it's part of the process, rather than procrastination - there's a point I reach where I can't do any more research, but I don't have the pieces together well enough to write. And I need something that keeps my hands busy while letting everything rearrange itself in my head until I really like the pattern it takes on. (Now, posting on the SU board, that's procrastination.) And I like washing dishes. (Though having been the neat freak in most households I've lived in, I don't particularly like the politics around cleaning one often sees.) There was a particular master in our order who apparently achieved enlightenment while washing dishes. Just another of those things that had me thinking "I like these people." (Of course, if you've seen how people eat at a retreat when they've been training hard, well, it's good to encourage dish washing. Pretty much everyone likes cooking too.) |
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« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2010, 04:53:43 pm » |
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There was a particular master in our order who apparently achieved enlightenment while washing dishes. Just another of those things that had me thinking "I like these people." (Of course, if you've seen how people eat at a retreat when they've been training hard, well, it's good to encourage dish washing. Pretty much everyone likes cooking too.)
The rules we've always used: If you cooked it and you ate the whole thing, you have to clean up after yourself. If someone else cooked it and you ate it, you have to wash dishes. That's the price of your meal. And lordy, the bitching that erupts when someone thinks they're exempt ... |
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
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« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2010, 05:12:00 pm » |
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The rules we've always used:
If you cooked it and you ate the whole thing, you have to clean up after yourself.
If someone else cooked it and you ate it, you have to wash dishes. That's the price of your meal.
And lordy, the bitching that erupts when someone thinks they're exempt ...
Which is a pretty common rule, and a good one. In my current household, we cook for ourselves and clean for ourselves, and if we offer the other person food the assumption is that it's a gift and there isn't a price. (Though we'll also occasionally do each other's dishes - usually as an expression of appreciation, though not always for cooking.) But we were both the neat freaks of our previous houses and I think we're pretty happy not to deal with the entangled messes of previous households. The problem I've run into before is that being generally the person who cooks the most, I've been the one who cares the most about having the kitchen clean. People are usually pretty eager to eat the food that I make, but enforcing cleaning has been stressful an unhappy for me. And not enforcing cleaning has been stressful and unhappy, for that matter. It's amazing how many people have tried to set up situations in which they will somehow be entitled to my work. The most outstanding case was my ex-husband, who argued that his time spent taking out the trash (or doing any housework) should be valued much more highly than my time cooking (or any other housework) because after all, I liked cooking, so it shouldn't count. But again, ex. Some problems have fairly simple solutions. |
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