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Jun. 2nd, 2008 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
per_soloSo, this class on marketing is still insane. :-) No complaints really, but wow. Keeping info straight makes my head hurt a tad. :-P Go freaking figure.
Found a CRAPLOAD of my old VHS tapes, and am going to take those and a few others to Half-Price tomorrow, and get paid a pittance. Not that bad, but should be enough to get the Indiana Jones lego game. Found a few tapes to go to E-Bay...a teen suicide pic that came out in the 80s, with River Phoenix (supporting character), that goes for about $70 online...a few of my old Comedy tapes (stand up I recorded...and found one that had Judd Apatow doing stand-up years ago), and some other random stuff. And tapes to just pitch...old tv that I recorded, way back when.
Had thoughts going around in my head. May end up going to Cedar Point this weekend, with some students, and hearing about how theme parks operate. Which has tracked my brain to other thoughts.
There will be opportunitiess in Vegas at some point, for gambling tourism, and the gaming industry, learning how they work. Want to look into that at some point. Which brings up the "would I move" question.
I've thought about it before..the last time was when I was depressed as hell, really. Just grab stuff and go. Would miss friends and family, but ultimately, I realized that moving to Florida (which was on the list), or any other state wouldn't solve my problems, it'd just be the same crap in my head in a new state (then the worries of making my life work there on top of all the depression..). So, I started working to solve the ones I had here, accepting responsibility for my own bullshit (Not so sure I've gotten all of that, but oh well).
I still have one former friend who, last I knew, blames me for how horrid their life is. A couple of others from pretty far back, I don't see how they can live in the denial of their own lives. In speaking like a cliche or bad movie, they don't live their lives, they mourn them. Responsibility for ones own actions, or fuck ups, is a pretty big deal.
Nope, I'm not one to speak a whole lot on that topic, as I've pulled it before too. And even with that in mind, am aware enough to know I COULD fall into it again. But, I'm at least that self-aware.
The rest will come along at its own pace.
And now, another quote. Sorry, but this one causes pause.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Found a CRAPLOAD of my old VHS tapes, and am going to take those and a few others to Half-Price tomorrow, and get paid a pittance. Not that bad, but should be enough to get the Indiana Jones lego game. Found a few tapes to go to E-Bay...a teen suicide pic that came out in the 80s, with River Phoenix (supporting character), that goes for about $70 online...a few of my old Comedy tapes (stand up I recorded...and found one that had Judd Apatow doing stand-up years ago), and some other random stuff. And tapes to just pitch...old tv that I recorded, way back when.
Had thoughts going around in my head. May end up going to Cedar Point this weekend, with some students, and hearing about how theme parks operate. Which has tracked my brain to other thoughts.
There will be opportunitiess in Vegas at some point, for gambling tourism, and the gaming industry, learning how they work. Want to look into that at some point. Which brings up the "would I move" question.
I've thought about it before..the last time was when I was depressed as hell, really. Just grab stuff and go. Would miss friends and family, but ultimately, I realized that moving to Florida (which was on the list), or any other state wouldn't solve my problems, it'd just be the same crap in my head in a new state (then the worries of making my life work there on top of all the depression..). So, I started working to solve the ones I had here, accepting responsibility for my own bullshit (Not so sure I've gotten all of that, but oh well).
I still have one former friend who, last I knew, blames me for how horrid their life is. A couple of others from pretty far back, I don't see how they can live in the denial of their own lives. In speaking like a cliche or bad movie, they don't live their lives, they mourn them. Responsibility for ones own actions, or fuck ups, is a pretty big deal.
Nope, I'm not one to speak a whole lot on that topic, as I've pulled it before too. And even with that in mind, am aware enough to know I COULD fall into it again. But, I'm at least that self-aware.
The rest will come along at its own pace.
And now, another quote. Sorry, but this one causes pause.
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
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Date: 2008-06-03 05:45 am (UTC)Where's it from?
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Date: 2008-06-06 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-03 01:27 pm (UTC)There's a religious philosophy that says that everything bad that happens to you you really DO deserve because mankind is fallen and we sin just by being born, so we should really just be thankful for anything GOOD that happens to us and accept the bad as consequence for being alive.
Which would be one of the MANY reasons I'm not religious. ;)
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Date: 2008-06-06 12:43 am (UTC)