Tag: frustration
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Ripostes: My latest rant about aphorisms
The less SEO-acceptable title for this post would be Shit I Hate Hearing, or Advice That Can Go Piss Up A Rope. Sometimes I need to grump about things in life that get my goat. This is my space for doing that (See the goats? See them?) and I despise these tidbits of wisdom with a…
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On Wasting Time
Someone posted this quotation as a “gentle reminder” to their Facebook circle. Before I was halfway through it, I was making the same unhappy noises the cat makes when I rub his fur backwards. When I finished, I sat and put my thoughts in order the way the cat runs off to a corner and…
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How to Know Someone Famous
Do you know J. K. Rowling? Neil Gaiman? No? Me neither. I know the settings they created as well as I know any place on the solid spinning world my body inhabits, but I’ve never met them. I know their characters with an intimacy I can’t claim of most living, breathing people, but I can’t claim…
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Biting the Hand That Feeds
This week’s navel-gazing manifesto. (tl:dr version: I am a weird, bitter person. Run while you can.) Once I’ve reached the point that I admit I am feeling needy, I’m nearly unreachable. Any good thing said to me at that point is only being said because I whined. It isn’t real. It’s false kindness offered out of…