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Just wanted to say...Happy Birthday!! biggrin

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Report | 03/01/2011 2:20 pm

If I'm not getting paid it's not getting printed, though. I mean, as materialistic and anti-art as that sounds I won't be making a living the conventional way and that may be one of the means I'll need to survive by. Besides, people who think money and art are as separate as oil and water should consider how people like Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Latrec, David, and most of the others ate their bread, even bought their art supplies.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:26 pm

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I have. But, right now I'm doing what you could cal preliminaries, basically getting myself into he writing mode and practicing until I feel ready (aka. confident and competent) to. My self-confidence and motivation are rather low, still, and I'm ignorant of the publishing world and its options.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:08 pm

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Poetry for now. Going to start doing some free writes and get myself back into the habit of writing. Eventually I'll work on some short stories that I have the ideas for written down.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:00 pm

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I haven't done that yet but I plan on getting into it once I have the necessary equipment to. A lot of me is interests and in potentia; the only thing I really do artistically is write.

Report | 03/01/2011 11:38 am

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I like theater, (neo-)classical and impressionist and surreal art, literature, and a lot of crafts like soap- and candle-making and jewelry and metallurgy.

Report | 03/01/2011 8:24 am

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Anyway, I'm sorry if it seemed like I was disparaging you of your dream. Not everyone can be some maverick semi-Buddhist Hippie and a society dominated by them would probably be about as inane and farcical as the one we currently have.

Report | 03/01/2011 8:23 am

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AH, I suppose that makes since, since you put it that way.

To me, really, what it's all about is becoming an enlightened person and learning to enjoy what you do in life and cultivating meaningful relationships. I guess I've lived under enough bridges and had enough adventures and an sufficiently individualistic and non-conformist and skeptical to not see life lie most people do.

But, yeah, some things you can't do without being in one of the inner societal orbits. I just have no interest in those things.

Report | 03/01/2011 8:12 am

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Is IT bettering you as a person or are you simply growing up?

I mean, my standards of becoming a better person include things like expanding intellectually and creatively, becoming socially adept, cultivating a compassionate and understanding worldview, engaging in some form of service, and accepting and embracing the illusion of self and inevitability of death. A pretty tall order, but that's just because our society has sold humanity down the river of trash flowing out of strip malls and box stores and our expectations are abysmally low.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:26 am

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I just refuse to see things as being more or less or other than what they are. Romanticizing, demonizing, or similar such things, is to me a form of delusional thinking.

I enjoyed some classes and some instructors but for the most part I disliked the institution as a whole because I saw what it was trying to do, make money off me while encouraging me to conform, use my brain only to serve the interests of the corporatocracy, and shove me in some cubicle somewhere with a bunch of other half-wit suckers. It's not what it used to be, and I'm not interested in being some cog in a machinery geared not for the interests of humanity but to fuel the private jets of the elite.

I'd rather push a shopping cart than be a feast for amoral and asocial parasites.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:17 am

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Why would you love a college? All a college is is a vehicle for you to earn a living, and maybe in the process educate yourself and grow, while at the same time if you look at it objectively it's a for-profit business that hustles you for cash. I personally see colleges as being largely a mediocre education geared toward corporate wage slavery.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:10 am

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******** scamming-a** profiteering colleges! scream I hate how they insist on freshmen and sometimes sophmores to pay their jacked-up rent and to buy into their food plans that are ultimately not that great of a deal (thanks to privatization, most colleges and universities don't have cafeterias but goddamn vendors, just like a damn mall food court) ... and, yeah, the environment isn't conducive to studying or to learning how to live on your own.

Report | 03/01/2011 12:03 am

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I would have gone for that major, too, instead of just dropping out, if I'd have thought things through more and chosen my personal disposition and preferences over muddled pragmatism. I happen to have a thing for English Lit girls, too, it seems, since my last girlfriend was that type. And, well, being an aspiring writer factors in, too.

If you get a work-study position apply for food stamps. If the rules haven't changed, you'll get the full $200 a month. That was what I did and it helped enormously.

Report | 02/28/2011 11:51 pm

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My best friend has the same problem: her mom makes everything out of a box or can or jar, with all that high-fructose corn syrup and salt and preservatives and ... ugh!

Never understood the poor college student business, but then again when I went I received financial aid and worked part-time, and I knew how to budget. What're you majoring in?

Report | 02/28/2011 11:36 pm

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Yeah, when you're not in control of your food there's nothing you can do about it but sound like a Hippie to your parents, is there? You'll find that it can take a lot of practice to manage to make eating healthy and have variety in your diet affordable; I make a list of tentative meal plans for the month ahead and that helps me reign in my costs and not end up eating lasagna and pre-fab deli food for two weeks and then nothing but ramen and oatmeal the other two.

Report | 02/28/2011 11:24 pm

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Makes sense. I'm from the West Coast, where we tend to incorporate vegetables more in our dishes than Midwesterners do, who I believe usually have them as a side, like asparagus or broccoli with pork chops or steak and potatoes. I don't really eat that much meat but get half of my protein from legumes; meat is expensive and I refuse to buy Meats of Evil from environmentally devastating, hormone-and-antibiotic dousing, inhumane factory farms. I imagine that also sounds very West Coast. Well, as much as people may mock it, I see no harm in being a conscious of health and sustainability, since anyone with a rational mind would prefer not to be a bloated or emaciated mutant living on a dead planet.

Prosciutto ham may be my favorite meat on pizza.

Report | 02/28/2011 11:15 pm

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Ah. So, you're pretty much a meat-and-cheese kinda girl? Sounds pretty ... now, don't get all offended, but Midwest truck stop.

Report | 02/28/2011 11:10 pm

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It IS my sort of thing. stare I'm inferring that for some reason it isn't yours? Garlic would be easier to portion, and I like garlic an awful lot, but I don't want the crust flavor overpowering the flavor of the other ingredients; a good cook knows how to work harmony out of his dishes' components.

Report | 02/28/2011 11:04 pm

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I kind of can, actually, conceptualize tastes. I decided that ham and pineapple just isn't enough and to add mandarin oranges (or tagerines), red and green bell peppers, and red onion. It will be a bit of an adventure because my proportions need to be adjusted from the 14" screen I used to use to the new 17" one a friend gave me. Also, I'll be adding something to the dough, too, which I may end up winging, probably crushed garlic or crushed sweet onion. It will be my first entry in my new culinary blog.

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