Newnesses

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I'm going to hell for this:
Found a site that sends delightful, dry e-cards with charming lines like "for someone who's come so far in life, you have a remarkably scant google trail, so kudos" and "Your expansive view of human sexuality is groovy and life-affirming but I'm getting tired of stockpiling penicillin for the inevitable." I spent five minutes scaring the baby, laughing out loud. I sincerely hope no one I know ever has occasion to send or recieve one of these, but damn, they're funny.
Here's the link: http://www.cyranet.com/

Mostly unrelated (except that I think I lifted the link to the cards from here or somewhere like it):
New blog in the links list, Rachel Kramer Bussel. I haven't gotten very far into the archives, but that's just a matter of time. She seems interesting. :)

Comments

smokes

[(Anonymous)]

re your comment on waiterrant, i so get the smokes thing. but two weeks ago, after ten years of smoking like a chimney, i decided to stop. snap-of-the-fingers type. and i really can't be bothered to smoke any more. sure, i may take a drag like once or twice a week if friends are smoking nearby. but not getting into the routine again. i think if the mind doesn't want it, the body just follows. and vice versa.

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Re: smokes

[ladywind.livejournal.com]

And as far as nicotine goes, after something like six or ten days, you're completely right. (good on you, btw! :D )Other addictions take God's Own Time to physically break, and what it takes until then is a daily "Am I going to? I could... No." The mind browbeating the body into a new routine.

What I'm saying is it's a choice you made. YOU looked at the world and said "Yep; done with this cigarette shit. Thanks." and dropped it. Nobody stuck you in rehab and said "it's good for you," made you stay x number of days. Therefore, if you're having a jittery day, you're less likely to fall back to "old reliable".

What if the choice to go without wasn't yours? Would you still be shunning the routine?

Like I said, not trying to excuse. Just trying to get the world off the dad's back, and to see Ms. Librarian a little more...close to home. Some days I want to kick old Sigmund in the head for giving people an automatic excuse for anything they ever do.

Re: smokes

[(Anonymous)]

you're spot on.
i didn't see Waiter's point in linking the dad either. but he does that sometimes, that's his mental path in storytelling, fair play.