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I'm scrambling around trying to get everything ready for when I go to Sweden before next weekend, it's a lot.
Some things have happened in the potential job area, but I don't know if anything will come from it, so there isn't much to write about right now. Thanksgiving was very classical, we celebrated with the Geek's family and one person even ate so much that he got an acid reflux syndrome directly after dinner.
There is something about the phenomena of being married with a house, 1-3 kids a dog, 1-2 cars,(often at least one SUV in the US) and sort of having all the right stuff which makes me realize that I'm probably not going to have it ever...it's just that...if it hasn't happened by now it probably won't happen. I have mixed feelings about that, on the one hand I wonder if people belonging to this vastly stereotyped group realize their own security, the comfort of having what so many desire, the luxury of not being scrutinized by the paradigm we all carry around passively or actively within ourselves, because the society we are influenced by throughout our lives planted it there. On the other hand...am I actively appreciative of the fact that I'm a caucasian heterosexual? probably not as much as I could, although more than some, I'm sure. I rather scrutinize and value my differences from the norm, as I'm sure people of the fairly secure middle class do too. And I would lie if I'd say that I have never desired the classical stereotype from holiday commercials on tv.
Let's just say that I was thankful on thanksgiving, for the friends I have who have reached their own desired paradigm, for the ones who are very different from any normative ideal, for the ones that are seemingly not, except to those of us who know what goes on inside them. It's true that my thanks this year were of the protective kind, the "I'm so glad this or that hasn't happened" kind, but that's just how it flows certain years.
This autumn is my fifth on Livejournal, I've been blogging for five years! Ironically enough, this very month I've also come to realize that I'm probably going to stay on livejournal, even if it would become completely deserted and unhip. I just like writing here now and again, and I value this form of communication more than many other forms on the internet. I've even checked out how some other blog forums work, and frankly many of them do not have the advanced kind of tools which you can use on LJ and which enable you to choose on what level and for whom you want to write.
Three years ago I made a post in which I wrote a few words about each and every livejournal friend who was active on my f-list, without exposing their name. I tried to be specific and honest - although most descriptions will be more or less positive, since I after all tend to like the people I friend and friend back. Recently another LJ-friend has revived this tradition beautifully, and she does it in batches - which is very wise if you have many you want to write about. I've just really felt inspired by that and wanted to do it again this fall, 3 years since the last time.
This time I've tried to be shorter and more to the point, since I'll make an attempt to take on most of you. Feel free to guess, but there's a larger heap to guess from than it was 3 years ago. ( non name-based descriptions of half of my lj-friends )
Some things have happened in the potential job area, but I don't know if anything will come from it, so there isn't much to write about right now. Thanksgiving was very classical, we celebrated with the Geek's family and one person even ate so much that he got an acid reflux syndrome directly after dinner.
There is something about the phenomena of being married with a house, 1-3 kids a dog, 1-2 cars,(often at least one SUV in the US) and sort of having all the right stuff which makes me realize that I'm probably not going to have it ever...it's just that...if it hasn't happened by now it probably won't happen. I have mixed feelings about that, on the one hand I wonder if people belonging to this vastly stereotyped group realize their own security, the comfort of having what so many desire, the luxury of not being scrutinized by the paradigm we all carry around passively or actively within ourselves, because the society we are influenced by throughout our lives planted it there. On the other hand...am I actively appreciative of the fact that I'm a caucasian heterosexual? probably not as much as I could, although more than some, I'm sure. I rather scrutinize and value my differences from the norm, as I'm sure people of the fairly secure middle class do too. And I would lie if I'd say that I have never desired the classical stereotype from holiday commercials on tv.
Let's just say that I was thankful on thanksgiving, for the friends I have who have reached their own desired paradigm, for the ones who are very different from any normative ideal, for the ones that are seemingly not, except to those of us who know what goes on inside them. It's true that my thanks this year were of the protective kind, the "I'm so glad this or that hasn't happened" kind, but that's just how it flows certain years.
This autumn is my fifth on Livejournal, I've been blogging for five years! Ironically enough, this very month I've also come to realize that I'm probably going to stay on livejournal, even if it would become completely deserted and unhip. I just like writing here now and again, and I value this form of communication more than many other forms on the internet. I've even checked out how some other blog forums work, and frankly many of them do not have the advanced kind of tools which you can use on LJ and which enable you to choose on what level and for whom you want to write.
Three years ago I made a post in which I wrote a few words about each and every livejournal friend who was active on my f-list, without exposing their name. I tried to be specific and honest - although most descriptions will be more or less positive, since I after all tend to like the people I friend and friend back. Recently another LJ-friend has revived this tradition beautifully, and she does it in batches - which is very wise if you have many you want to write about. I've just really felt inspired by that and wanted to do it again this fall, 3 years since the last time.
This time I've tried to be shorter and more to the point, since I'll make an attempt to take on most of you. Feel free to guess, but there's a larger heap to guess from than it was 3 years ago. ( non name-based descriptions of half of my lj-friends )
