correspondence

my friend Candace is back! she sent a generic e-mail to her mailing list of friends and family, reassuring everyone that all's well with her in jolly Olde Englande. my reply:

Candace!/Hello!
You're in the land of the living! (Or at least in the land of oats/sheep... that's what Carrie's trusty office atlas said, of the 'industries' regnant in the Durham area).
Very glad to see you back and puttering about in cyberspace, and I hope your barn has a resident owl... er, tech support guy/gal so that any and all IP issues with your ethernet/laptop connection will be resolved right quick.
Over here, the first cold front of the fall/winter has arrived, and me liketh it not. Very not. It has been raining/drizzling here too, off and on since Dark Monday (the day after the As/Giants both lost succumbed to the unmentionables from the Big Apple. It's freezing cold, and I can't wait to get to balmier climes, to revel in liquid sunshine, salt/sea breezes, and sugarlike sand.
That's in three weeks, as i leave for Maui on 4 Nov. In the meantime, I'm working double-time here at ATDP now, cramming work and socializing into my remaining time here. The thrills abound.
Verily, I look forward to your weblog missives from the front. Nibble a crumpet for me at tea, will you?
Cheerio, Lloyd.

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She hated me even though we were both filipino. This brings back terrible memories of me crying silently in the "corner". The thought of crying woke me up and I glanced at the television to see if Fran was still playing. Sadly she still was.

For example, Magen does all these STRANGE things that I'm sure she thinks we find totally cool and amusing, because we're kids/teens and kids/teens find these things interesting, right? Wrong. :/ (One of these would be that she writes "secret messages" on the blackboard ... they're really just written in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) language. -_-; ) For the most part, her attempted amusements come off as "Uh... okay?" to us. At the same time, she expects enormous things of us musically.

almost simultaneously, the family dog sandie was diagnosed with a infected bug bite on her eye. shes on antibiotic pills which are given twice a day, and a cream which we have to put on her swolen eye, also multiple times everyday. the usually chaotic house gotten even crazier.

One thing that helps is to be just a LITTLE presumptuous. I don't mean you have to abandon all of the politeness you've learned. Just PRESUME that people you don't know well are on your side! That guy or girl WANTS to like you! Just prove this sentiment correct as you speak to them. Show them who you are. The people in your class want to learn. Help them do so by volunteering what you have to offer. In the event that what you want to say is right, they'll learn from it. In the event that it is wrong, they'll learn from THAT TOO. But no one learns if no one speaks. Every situation in which nerves are present features people that APPEAR to be enemies but that can be turned to allies just by viewing them in a different light.

while the internet is convenient for us, it also destroys the "raw-ish" and "originality" of humans. JUST for this simple reason, i really doubt if we would develop anything like what we read in sci-fi novels like 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, which has things like "wall-TV-screen" that you can talk to or whatever. because that would make interacting with other humans unnecessary, which is something we dont want.

Sep Nov

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