Quotes of the Day

[hummingwolf]

to be nobody but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
--e.e. cummings


There is just one life for each of us: our own.
--Euripides


There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
--C.S. Lewis

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[conscience.livejournal.com]

*There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
--C.S. Lewis*

Sounds almost like something Mark Twain would say...LoL!
I love that one :)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yep, when I saw that line I knew it had been far too long since I'd read the Chronicles of Narnia. :-)

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

OK, now i HAVE to read this c.s.lewis guy!!!

*grin*

i'm literate, truly i am! ;)

(hm.."narnia"... that rings some distant bell off in the depths of my packratted brain... i would search for it but for fear opening any doors would result in an avalanche of trivia pouring out unceremoniously on my head... or worse, bumping into a neuron which suddenly releases a sound clip of the beegees resounding thru my skull.. adventure is for masochists, i say, ensconed in front of my pc with crispy m&m's at hand...)

i said literate.
i promised nothing about proper grammar.
*grin*

- anti-capitalization archmistress of leap-frogging alinear consciousness-borne spews
(hmmm... "ACA LACS"... sounds like those wandering wool-bearing moutain mammals... or the annoying duck insurance commercial. either way, me passes for now on the self-acronymization... *heh*)

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

and don't forget that silly spelling tradition...

/me stuffs spelling into dusty grammar bin...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Hee. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of 7 children's books written in the early '50s (maybe begun in the '40s? I forget); the first one written was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, though the earliest one in storytime is The Magician's Nephew. To be fair to you, I must say that a lot of what C.S. Lewis (known to his friends as "Jack") wrote was very very Christian-flavored--but he also threw lots of pagan stuff in, being fond of both Norse & Greek mythology (lots of fauns & naiads & dryads & gods & goddesses (as well as talking animals) in Narnia).

I know what you mean about packratted brains, but I'm a big fan of that kind of adventure... at least until the Bee Gees songs come pouring out. Yick. Could be worse, though; it could be Bette Midler doing "Wind Beneath My Wings"... aiiiieeeeeee!

/me runs to the bathroom to scrub out the inside of her skull.

By the way, I like "ensconed" in front of the PC; makes it sound like you're decadently wrapped up in tea cakes.

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

aha! the lion the witch and the wardrobe!!

/bells tinkle somewhere


oooops!
*giggle*
i guess that was supposed to be 'ensconCed'??
hehehehehehehehee!

next time i'm in my very non-decadent cube, bored or irritated out of my mind, i will imagine myself floating ethereally on a magical pale pink sugar-iced tea cake!!! lightly pixie-dusted of course!! (of course my flight would quickly be ended by my lack of restraint in eating magical tea cake. *CHOMP* *aiee* *THUD* *oof* ... *munchmunch*)

*HEE*

thanks,i needed a laugh, as i'm just leaving work NOW. *gah* my big accomplishment for the day was just hand-coding 800+ commas and quotes for a 400+long filelist.

*klink*
/me picks up my left hand and heads home

:)

p.s. check out the dar williams song "the christians and the pagans" *hee* :)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, ensconced always makes me think of candles in a candle sconce... which probably isn't a bad image if you've been burning at both ends hand-coding commas. Poor Pixie.

You had my sympathy, but did you have to mention Dar Williams? My favorite radio station overplayed her horribly a few years ago, and while I *think* there's a song of hers I actually like, "The Christians and the Pagans" isn't it. So *chirpy*.

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

hehe, yea ensconced makes me think of candles too, so never sounds right lol

hehe, radio prolly overplayed 'cool as i am'... hm, maybe dark city better for you, not chirpy. *hee* (but very very lonnnng!)

as for burning candles both ends... *sigh* i pretty much just working and taking care of myself these days... but then i thought last nite after reading your lj, well i have to remember to be thankful for my job and being able to pay my rent and still afford my extravagant car (i have a mustang. for all my love of buddhism, i'm afraid i'm just really a materialistic ho. i luuuuv my car! bright green convertible mustang w/charcoal leather and pumpin radio! *sighhhh* libras and their need for aesthetics. sigh.)

so anyway. i guess we all have our struggles. but i guess is natural to compare what we have now to what we HAD as opposed to how much less we COULD have...

*eep* my head hurts. some days i don't want to think about lofty goals like 'attitudes of gratitude', i just want to be.

/me goes off and bees.
:)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't know if "Cool as I Am" is something they overplayed or not (I'm repressing, you see). They *did* overplay "The Christians and the Pagans," and continue to overplay it every December so that I'm not allowed to repress that one.

libras and their need for aesthetics

Heh. You clearly have never seen this Libra's living quarters. Though perhaps my music collection makes up for the complete lack of visual appeal in here.

Ooh, remembered that in my natal chart, not only were the sun, 3 planets, and part of fortune in Libra, but the asteroids named Carol (my first name) and Cslewis were as well. (Asteroid Lewiscarroll was off in Gemini, though.) I know way too much about my horoscope for someone who doesn't believe in astrology. :-)

but i guess is natural to compare what we have now to what we HAD as opposed to how much less we COULD have...

Yep. I *could* have bought two dark chocolate Kit-Kat bars today instead of only one... sigh...

Sometimes I think it helps to think about what I had before I got sick, gives me a reason to try to fight and get better so I can have some of those things again. Other times it only hurts, because if I compare myself to other people I know I keep thinking of ten years of my life as being entirely *wasted*: even though I know I learned a heck of a lot going through it, that's hard to remember sometimes when everyone around you is focused on tangible results.

some days i don't want to think about lofty goals like 'attitudes of gratitude', i just want to be.

I find it easier to be grateful when I'm just being, actually. If I'm thinking that I'm *supposed* to be grateful, my obstreperous mind keeps thinking of things to complain about. (And you so don't want to see my reactions to people who tell me to think positively. It isn't pretty.) I'm usually better off if I forget about trying to be grateful and just look around me--when I'm really paying attention, it's hard not to notice how beautiful the world is. Does tend to annoy drivers when I'm standing in the middle of the crosswalk admiring the clouds, though
::HONK:: ::BLEAT:: Ack! Sorry!

I hope you had fun going off and bee-ing, Pixie. :-)