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Only myself to blame?
07.18.04 (10:07 pm)   [edit]
Do I only have myself to blame for the fact that I've got a law degree--been admitted to the bar, even--and that I'm currently painfully underemployed (and concomitantly underearning)?

I bet the answer is yes.

But, assuming that is true, is it not better to buck up and move on?

I bet the answer is also yes.
 
Oh my god.
07.14.04 (8:14 pm)   [edit]
It's the apocalypse. I'm going to be a divorce attorney. Only cute.
 
Notes to self
07.09.04 (4:20 pm)   [edit]
From Barbara Sher in "Wishcraft" (...which is as old as I am...)

"Now, little by little, if you can--and you almost always can--start having fun with your negative feelings. Exaggeration, self-parody, melodrama, defiance, and obscenity are all useful weapons, and anything is a fair target: yourself, me, your goal, mother, flag and country....Say anything as long as it's a mean, miserable complaint with some punch to it.

"Did you notice that your energy level went up?

"[That's because] Depression is an energy crisis, and negativity is energy--pure, ornery, high-octane energy. It's just been so repressed and tabooed that we've forgotten something every 2-year-old knows: how good it is for us to throw a tantrum. We're all such good little girls, such brave, stalwart little boys, such polite little children--and inside every one of us is an obnoxious, exubertant little brat, just squirming to be let out. I've got one. So do you. That brat is your baby, and you'd better love her, because you ignore her at your peril.

"Somewhere along the line our culture has sold us the absurd idea that we've got to have a positive attitude to succeed. We're afraid to be negative because we think it means we won't *do* anything. And yet the evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. A quick look at your own experience will show you how powerless positive thinking really is. Oh it feels good--while it lasts.

"The operative principle of Hard Times is, 'Get it off...and then get on with it.' You've got to let negative attitudes and feelings happen. Only then will you be ready for positive problem-solving, planning, and action.

"The last thing anyone [else] should do is argue with you or try to help you look at the sunny side....If they can pitch in and say something destructive, they're more than welcome. It's nice to hear yourself backed up by a friendly chorus of snarls and moans. Makes you feel less alone."
 
so intoxicating
07.09.04 (4:01 pm)   [edit]
I am already loving this strange, green corner of the Interweb. Of course, my love for the Interweb is deep but I am finding it has room to grow. I secured myself an honest-to-goodness domain name last weekend and now, on a perfectly good Friday afternoon, I am blogging.

I can see this will lead to trouble.

But hopefully good trouble, of which there is such a thing.
 
So original
07.09.04 (3:44 pm)   [edit]
Yes, it's happening. I'm adding my own, unique, jaded, slightly sarcastic and disaffected voice to the Interweb. Just like everyone else. It's a journal gone public. And now it's mine.