I'm not overly risk adverse, in the sense that I don't feel overly afraid to take option two or three. I was in a pretty long relationship, and I always told her that if I was single I'd probably do one of those two options - and I did mean it. Just like I told her I'd never talk to her again very easily, which seems to have shocked both her and my friends. I sort of just build something into my narrative and go with it.
Option two is my right hand path, option three is my left hand path. I'll likely take one or the other, unless something else rears its ugly head (my brother has said his goal for the next year is to keep me out of a serious relationship, a task which I hope he's successful at).
As you mentioned, I can get more involved locally, which I've done through political organizations. Switching jobs within my company would be worthless; it'd be like exchanging a Macintosh apple for a Cortland - I'm still holding an apple, it's just the acidity has been slightly altered.
I'd say the slightest modification of my life would be GRE to some decent school in Boston, and then trying to make some bank.
I really appreciate your reply, because I'm looking for that sort of advice. I will say: I'm not a regret person. I don't have tons of problems and I don't dwell on things - I move past them. So I wouldn't burn a year in Seattle and never be able to get over it, because that's just not how I work, which is to say, I'm no more afraid of living than I am of dying.
Off to work, which is still a nice thing to be able to say.
Option two is my right hand path, option three is my left hand path. I'll likely take one or the other, unless something else rears its ugly head (my brother has said his goal for the next year is to keep me out of a serious relationship, a task which I hope he's successful at).
As you mentioned, I can get more involved locally, which I've done through political organizations. Switching jobs within my company would be worthless; it'd be like exchanging a Macintosh apple for a Cortland - I'm still holding an apple, it's just the acidity has been slightly altered.
I'd say the slightest modification of my life would be GRE to some decent school in Boston, and then trying to make some bank.
I really appreciate your reply, because I'm looking for that sort of advice. I will say: I'm not a regret person. I don't have tons of problems and I don't dwell on things - I move past them. So I wouldn't burn a year in Seattle and never be able to get over it, because that's just not how I work, which is to say, I'm no more afraid of living than I am of dying.
Off to work, which is still a nice thing to be able to say.
I cannot even copy his manner because the manner of his prose was the manner of his thinking and that was a dazzling succession of gaps; and you cannot ape a gap because you are bound to fill it in somehow or other -- and blot it out in the process. -- Nabokov
I Seek Life Advice
26/04/2011 02:52:23 AM
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It's Sabotage -Go Balls to the wall,Baby! #3 for you, My friend. *NM*
26/04/2011 03:00:14 AM
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Re: If I went balls to the walls I'd run for the Senate in 2012...
26/04/2011 03:22:43 AM
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The common wisdom in Ireland seems to be we are about to do just that to our senate. *NM*
26/04/2011 01:19:22 PM
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Re: I'd love to abolish the US Senate. It's a big, white, Oligarchical nuisance. *NM*
26/04/2011 11:42:44 PM
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I don't understand why NY is not on your radar if you're ambitious.
26/04/2011 06:10:06 AM
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"the ambitious folk" sounds odd to me.
26/04/2011 06:55:40 PM
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Oh, I know.
26/04/2011 07:04:16 PM
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I'm still not convinced two wrongs make a right.
26/04/2011 07:37:22 PM
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Re: I'm still not convinced two wrongs make a right.
26/04/2011 08:19:38 PM
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Move out west.
26/04/2011 06:21:43 AM
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hey, ca is awesome! also the weather is far, far better than the other 2 pnw states
26/04/2011 06:32:36 AM
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I've visited CA many times, but I only started hating it after I moved to the West Coast
26/04/2011 06:43:24 AM
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oh, ca doesn't make women that way, it's time. i have to interact with them *daily*
26/04/2011 04:38:36 PM
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What's your personality like?
26/04/2011 11:19:59 AM
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Re: That's a great reply - thanks.
26/04/2011 12:03:05 PM
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That's not very nice.
26/04/2011 08:29:11 PM
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Re: Setting:
26/04/2011 08:59:02 PM
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Come to Ireland.
26/04/2011 01:31:55 PM
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Ireland is a great place for writers. *NM*
26/04/2011 04:11:04 PM
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Suicidal, drunk and otherwise self-destructive writers, yes. *NM*
26/04/2011 06:49:55 PM
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The best kind! *NM*
26/04/2011 07:09:06 PM
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$30? I fucking hate you
26/04/2011 03:19:26 PM
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Re: FAR is a beast - but it's so much more satisfying to do it without Becker.
26/04/2011 09:09:11 PM
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take the the risk and go with three *NM*
26/04/2011 05:44:21 PM
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Re: Thanks for the advice. I'm dwelling on'er. *NM*
27/04/2011 12:06:37 AM
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There will likely come a time in your life when you lose some of your choices about taking risk
27/04/2011 05:08:48 PM
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I have to say this has been the MOST enjoyable thread, in a while. whatever happens...
27/04/2011 02:30:05 AM
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There's been a lot of great threads lately!
27/04/2011 07:52:21 PM
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