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[Phaedra]

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[skilletaudio]

Phaedra fail english? Thats unpossible!

[Phaedra]

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[Eclipse]

Phaedra, take a vacation to NH for a month. You can stay at my place. We'll smoke some pot and sit around my shop all day discussing anything you want. I'm not the smartest person in the world but I do enjoy good conversations when I have them.

[daboking]

other than feeling a little underpaid, I am extremely happy with the work I do. I produce a hispanic radio program targeted to women in abused homes... and the fulfillment from doing something you know is helping others live safer, happier lives more than compensates where income is lacking. To compensate, i teach guitar on the side three days a week... I have played for over 25 years, and I love being able to see the "lighbulbs" go on in the minds of enthusiastic young kids. Well, my point is, it is possible to have an enjoyable work experience, but nothing will ever seem "perfect"

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[fubarz]

Phaedra have you ever considered a job in intelligence (NSA, CIA), because your language skill are
exceptional and puzzle solving ability is also high. You also see connetions where other don't. I have a feeling that you are quite like Rani but I could be wrong about all of this.

The very few people that I have met that work for these groups are very interesting and multidimentional people.

The problem with this type of work is that you can't talk about what you are doing because of all the secutiry rules.
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fubarz aka Lt. Cmdr. Scott

[johnny5]

[CoffeeJedi]

[Phaedra]

[Machiavelli]

[Ozy_y2k]

Ph, I could have written your last rant verbatim five years ago. Five years ago, I WAS you. (Only, you know....male, and with eyes that pretty much stay bluish green most of the time. And big black ears.) And I *still* hate what I do some days, especially living in the midst of Cornfields As Far As They Eye Can See and interacting with folks who don't ever want to listen to my occasional rhapsodies for the oeuvre of Ingmar Bergman.

But, yeh, academia can be its own insidious form of poison as well. And, moving from a hermetically sealed, self-important atmosphere like the Loathsome Midwestern College Town I Trapped Myself In to someplace more....erm.....heartland-y, like Indianapolis, taught me a very valuable lesson; that sometimes, it is WAAAAAY more fun to seek out the company of people who are Smart but Nice, than people who are Brilliant but Aggressive.

As you know from your time spent in the trenches on these here fora, there are plenty of online peeps who will share whatever interest in minutae you might be inclined to indulge in. The internet at large is the last frontier of the social fringe, and it's all the better for it. So much better, then, to appreciate the semi-washed masses around you for what they are, which could be any combination of: (a) fun; (b) whacked; (c) cute; (d) annoying as hell; (e) worrisome; (f) accepting; (g) criminally dangerous.

I *still* tell many youngish (I'm only 32) brilliantines of my acquaintance to stay the hell away from law school, because there are days when I wish I did and when I would rather be, I dunno, making movies in Sudduhn Kahleefohnia or something. But I also kind of like the occasional glancing blows of respect that people toss my way when they realize I occasionally DO know something regarding what I'm blabbering about, so I guess being a lawyer ain't a TOTAL wash. If you can find the will to fail miserably your first few forays out (because that is what WILL happen no matter HOW stupefyingly cerebral you are), by all means go for it.

(Oh, and law students freakin' LOVE Buffy, yo. When I was in school, it was ALL ABOUT getting the hell away from the law library with a group o' buddies and settling in for a nice brain-softening hour of Melrose Place. )

And work, REAL work, non-academic work, is FUN!!! At least your learned theses will get read by someone other than a fusty old professioral committee, and used, rather than gettng shelved on the back row of a library filing cabinet somewhere!

Anyhoo. G'luck, and just because you might have hefty tomes to cart around for the next several years, don't forget not to forsake us poor ARGonauts.

[Ozy_y2k]

P.S.: if you still feel the overwhelming urge to Write, and scrawling line after tiny rant-filled line in dog-eared seekrit notebooks meant only for the eyes of the homicide detectives after you get caught just doesn't do it for ya anymore, take my advice and get yerself a blog. Blogging ain't JUST for whiny adolescents anymore, y'know!

Blogger: The Other White Meat.

[Machiavelli]

[johnny5]