About Me

Living life one dream at a time.

Words of the Wise

"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry, The Lady's not for Burning

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

-Erica Jong

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."
-Monica Wood, My Only Story

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones

"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine which, being balanced people, they cannot supply."
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You know, when you crawl that far down into the abyss, you really shouldn't bring stuff back up with you. Some things are meant to live in the dark. Your blog is like one of those fish with no eyes. Only slightly more disturbing."
Friday, January 11, 2008

Meaner than hell.

My chest hurts, I have a splitting headache, the really cool meeting I had today was canceled, and everyone in the whole world is stupid.

I am therefore feeling very mean at the moment.

In lieu of saying all of the snarky, horrible things to the people that pissed me off today, I'm writing them here. For the record, my mother never taught me any rules about what to do if I can't write anything nice...

So if you're reading this, I hate you. Don't take it personally - I hate everyone today. Just be glad you're not one of the people below.

To the idiot who took up three parking spaces in the garage this morning so nobody would ding his BMW -
I hope a piano falls out of an airplane and crashes through three layers of concrete before landing directly in your driver's seat. As a matter of fact, I hope it happens twice, just for good measure.

To the absolute moron who held up my orange juice purchase for ten minutes in the convenience store in Union Station because he had to return the $1.72 granola bar he just put on his credit card, as he needed that money in his account for something else-
You go to hell. You go to hell and you die.

To the woman who canceled my meeting with one of the premier arts organizations in Chicago this morning so she could attend an event where she may end up on tv (and then had the balls to send me the video that's going to appear on four different newscasts tonight)-
Fuck off and die in a fire. I mean that in the nicest possible way. Which still isn't very nice.

To the 20-something blonde, skinny bimbo wearing 4-inch spike heels in the office today...who couldn't figure out how to take a proper step in them without tripping or shuffling her feet like a drunk-
You are a miserable tramp. If you can't walk in them, don't frickin wear them. You are officially no longer pretty, and are also too dumb to live.

To the three men over 6' tall I went to lunch with who insisted on walking as fast as possible for five blocks because they didn't wear coats and were cold-
I can walk in heels. I am, however, 5'2", and making me run in them to keep up with you is not very gentlemanly. Choosing not to wear a coat when it's 30 degrees outside isn't macho - it's infantile. Grow up, or I'm going to make you wear mittens.

To the dickhead I was stuck behind on the Kennedy this afternoon who insisted on driving 52 mph in the express lanes-
I hope that piano ricochets off the BMW and crashes through your windshield. While I'm watching. So I can point and laugh. And take video that will show up on four tv stations tonight.

To the 'friend' who calls me every Friday afternoon to tell me that our kids are talking about a sleepover again, and ask if I can take her son for the night-
My kid doesn't like your kid THAT much. And I'm starting to not like you at all. Do you really think I can't tell when you make shit up? If start yelling, "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!" like a bad lie detector every time you open your mouth, will you be offended? Good.

To you, reading this-
Bite me. Seriously.

p.s. - See? Next time you wonder why I'm quiet and look grouchy, you won't ask. Especially if I have a piano handy.

p.p.s. - Sleepover-monger-mom-friend just called again. I didn't answer. I am going to make her sweat for an hour or so while I go pull legs off of kittens or something.

p.p.p.s. - Shut up. I know you love me anyway.

p.p.p.p.s. - You do too, you liar.

5 comments:

Wes said...

There's no point preaching to the perverted.

Seriously, dayamn...what a day for you. Hope you can chill out this weekend.

WF

Jonathan Ahl said...

Consider decaf. Or do what I do... once a month go beat the fuck out of some mimes with a fungo bat.

Christine said...

Decaf? pffffft.

That takes all the fun out of everything.

Wes, I chilled, alright. I think my couch has a permanent ass-print on it now. It's really quite touching (and no, I'm not saying where).

Anonymous said...

Sorry you had such a bad day. I'm glad you remembered the instructions:

Pull off legs, re-attach, repeat.

*mew*

Christine said...

I wuv you toooooo