“It’s understandable for people to want all their favorite things to happen, but the crazy thing is to think that they can avoid all the hard things. To want everything you ever dreamed of, to the exclusion of anything hard, that feels common to me now in a way that is hurting people. They’re ignoring how much good there is in being present for the hardest parts of your life.”
-Louis CK as quoted in “Louis CK: The Rolling Stone Interview” by Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone (April 25, 2013)
Many thanks to Amy for giving me this article and insisting … Read the rest
Maxwell says that the thing that I am holding is my “gold stick” and that if I want to use it as a weapon I “can take off the top and hit someone with it.”… Read the rest
“Not damn it. I mean dam it, as in ‘Stop that water from flowing.’”
(Quotable Maxwell: “Can you guys stop with the dam jokes? It’s getting not funny.” We’ll be generous and assume he also meant dam and not damn.)… Read the rest
Last week, I had an evening when I was all What am I doing with my life?
Thinking this way has led me to some positive changes–new living situation, new job, trying to be a better human–but sometimes it’s counterproductive. It’s a fine line between a reasonable examination of one’s life and madness. Last week, I had a couple hours of madness, overwhelmed by doubt and all the choices I’ve made and have yet to make. Something I have learned is that the best thing I can do when I start feeling this way is to just do something–exercise, write … Read the rest
But that would be ignoring the fact that when the sun moved, I got up and moved to the other chair. Also, I did go for a run this morning. I didn’t start running thinking that I would be setting any land speed records (if I wanted to do that, I would have taken up a hobby that involves a vehicle), but all my runner friends’ excellent discipline often reminds me that I am not an athlete. Instead of paying attention to what I eat, say, or even tracking how far I run, I use running like an eraser. If … Read the rest
The picture’s blurry because I could not stop laughing. Also, there were three adults in there trying to take pictures at the same time, so there might have been some pushing, but you know you’re with good friends when you are all crammed into a bathroom laughing at something a fifth grader would find funny.… Read the rest
“I’m not testifying in court if she murders you.”
I’ll leave it to you to figure out who he was addressing and who was doing the potential murdering.… Read the rest
I needed more avocados and half-and-half, so I stopped by the new Wegmans again and learned some more about it:
1. They have taken away all the traffic directors, so it’s every woman for herself in that lot now.
2. There is a cashier that looks like Buster working there (which I can’t believe Anne hasn’t told me about), although I mean pre-hook-hand Buster.
3. The rooster above the coffee shop isn’t always out. It just comes out like a cuckoo bird on the hour and half-hour to accompany the crowing sound, which does not make this particular feature of … Read the rest
Not so long after I started working at HPL, I was talking to a potential vendor about some work I wanted done and how it fit into some of my long-term goals for the library, and he said, “You’re really ambitious.”
I said, “I think we’re understanding each other.”
I didn’t wind up hiring that guy for that job, but being understood every once in a while balances out the times I have to convince salesmen that I really am the person in charge even though I don’t fit their stereotype of librarian or person in charge. Sometimes I … Read the rest
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