This marks the end of my first full week at a new job. While it’s an IC, and I can go at my own pace, there is an unspoken pressure. I’m not as tired as yesterday, but then, I haven’t spent too much time dealing with bullshit, such as the revelation that “online bill paying” is “bank floats your payment for two-seven days before transmitting”. Or walking 4+ miles without stopping. I was not functional yesterday. Today? Just don’t know. Does the broker accept I have a disability? Or does he think that my mTBI is an excuse and I’m full of shit?
Category: Ad Astra
flashback
I have begun work as NYS Licensed Real Estate Salesperson. Pretty neat, huh? One day I left a jacket there and thought “it will be here when I need it”. A few days later, I was going to leave a lightweight shirt I use a casual jacket and realized I was doing my old “I’ll leave it here so I don’t have to carry it” routine I inwardly flipped out and brought the clothing home.
Home. It’s more then just “a roof over your head”
Why we should be a skosh more understanding of the Teaparty/GOP
ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2010) — Ever meet a kindergartener who seemed naturally compassionate and cared about others’ feelings? Who was cooperative and didn’t demand his own way? Chances are, his parents held, carried and cuddled him a lot; he most likely was breastfed; he probably routinely slept with his parents; and he likely was encouraged to play outdoors with other children, according to new research findings from the University of Notre Dame.
via Child rearing practices of distant ancestors foster morality, compassion in kids.
I guess what a friend mine always says about socially dysfunctional humans: Their parents didn’t love them enough.
Reprint: How Evangelicals & Dominoinists use Magick
All too often, I hear “oh, you CAN’T do magick to do x/y/z. it’s bad ju-ju. Listen up folks:
Do you pray? You do magick
do you cross your fingers? You do magick
Do you say Geshundeit/Salud or “bless” when someone sneezes? You do magick
There are people out there “praying for you” and it isn’t altruistc. it is MAGICK. they are praying for your conversion to whatever (FundiXitianity) they write your name on paper and “nail it to a cross”
They also prayed for non-Christian students in their school and wrote their names down on paper.
In a solemn, symbolic offering, they nailed the pieces of paper to a wooden cross, set up beside the flag pole.
This is called BINDNG MAGICK
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World gets its first gay leader.
World gets its first gay leader
Former air hostess to be sworn in as Icelandic premier after economic collapse
By Peter Popham
Thursday, 29 January 2009
The first government collapse of the global economic crisis is about to yield the world’s first openly-gay leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir, a former air hostess, is expected to be sworn in as Iceland’s Prime Minister by the end of the week.
via World gets its first gay leader – Europe, World – The Independent.
The next sound you hear, is the sound of neo-con heads exploding. Think of it. America has its first openly Hawaiian President, and Iceland, it’s first openly gay Prime Minister.
Let Operation Mind Melt begin!
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