[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by Jelsie

OK, all's well then.
I'm relieved!
But why would I worry? I'm confident you've got plans for the future.
/Lena

Figures this would happen as I'm currently reading Carl Jung's Man And His Symbols, specifically 'Part 3: The Process of Individuation'.

EDIT: Thanks, my dear Squink.

[rlpw]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Figures this would happen as I'm currently reading Carl Jung's Man And His Symbols, specifically 'Part 3: The Process of Individuation'.

(((Trepsie))) *Buffs the naked pate*

Good for you sunshine! Now go make them beg for ya!

[Melanie68]

Good luck Trep. It'll definitely be good if you can find a more fulfilling job.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by rlpw

(((Trepsie))) *Buffs the naked pate*

Careful, big boy. Don't you start something I may have to finish.

Good for you sunshine! Now go make them beg for ya!

Thanks, pumpkin. I'll do my best.

Originally Posted by Melsie

Good luck Trep. It'll definitely be good if you can find a more fulfilling job.

That's what nearly all of us strive for in our lives. Thanks for the warm wish, my dear.

[rlpw]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Careful, big boy. Don't you start something I may have to finish.

If your taste falls down to graying mildly overweight straight guys I'll kick your butt myself for dropping your standards!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

You have such a way with words.



< runs before rlpw positions his foot for the kicking >

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

I resigned from my position

What, OMG how will you support our baby?

Originally Posted by rlpw

If your taste falls down to graying mildly overweight straight guys I'll kick your butt myself for dropping your standards!

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

You have such a way with words.
< runs before rlpw positions his foot for the kicking >

See I can’t you alone for two seconds. I leave for a day and you resign from your job and you went straight….. What is this world coming too?

Seriously, I’m glad that you have made a great move for yourself. I hope that everything works out for you and I hope that you find a job that appreciates you and everything that you do.

[Sage]

Originally Posted by rlpw

If your taste falls down to graying mildly overweight straight guys I'll kick your butt myself for dropping your standards!

Well, our Trep has shown a fondness for a certain graying mildly overweight gay guy in the past. I think it's the Southern-ness that does it.

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by Sage

I think it's the Southern-ness that does it.

I think it always the Southern-ness that draws people in.

[rlpw]

Originally Posted by Sage

Well, our Trep has shown a fondness for a certain graying mildly overweight gay guy in the past. I think it's the Southern-ness that does it.

Must be all the yall's, Dem dere's, and our use of the word Darlin constantly.

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by rlpw

Must be all the yall's, Dem dere's, and our use of the word Darlin constantly.

teehee... that sounds about right

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I've just spent two hours conversing on the phone with N, a fellow in San Diego around my age. It's amazing, the parallels you encounter, glimpsing your self in the stories of other people. N had traversed many of the same emotional and psychic landscapes I had, collecting his share of cuts, bruises, and scars, like I had. He has seen, as I had, the saddest of the sad in the face of a former lover the moment you're about to leave the intimacy of their life forever to move on in your own, on your own and you know that they know they're losing you forever. He has experienced, as I had, the irony of moving vast distances only to have the table turned on him, by a friend or by a lover. He has felt, as I had, how isolating it was to be left out in the cold as you look into the window of another person's life.

So we talked about the city. Urban development fascinates him, as it does me. In our way we've kept track of how our manmade habitats shift and change over the years and its cause and effect and what that means to people affected by it, what it means to him and me. We talked about how we had to deal with our sexuality, how we made excuses to keep it at bay and what happened when we inevitably ran out of excuses. I told him my stories about how I lived in L.A. over ten years ago, how, in my depression, I would take solitary strolls in the middle of the night in Hollywood, stepping on the stars imbedded in the Walk of Fame, and how the street itself was paved with tiny bits of glass so it literally sparkled in the night but there was no one to see it because it was two in the morning. He told me he too is a night owl, he thrives during the tiny hours.

We talked about fate and destiny, about how people serve some purpose in each other's lives, slipping in and out of meaning, in and out of focus, and how the most profound revelations are often the most agonizing and crippling but you can never go back.

He had to work tomorrow so it was time to say goodnight. We talked about the condo he owns in Palm Springs and how he loves going there during the summer months to just relax. We then talked about San Diego a little bit more, of how cheap it was to take the Amtrak train down there for a weekend, what we could do, where to get a cheap dinner, what to see, how that city is like L.A. but without the acid. We talked, and his voice sounded at once wise and boyish and collegiate and knowing.

We talked and talked, and all I could think of was how badly I wished I were there to simply lay my head on his chest, in his bed, while we talked some more, in a moonlit room, and everything was cast in the deepest shades of indigo.

[Fairygdmther]

Trep, honey, I'm glad to see that you quit that job. It was a go-nowhere job for you. Yes, it gave you income and some experience, but in a few months time you gained all you could from it. You couldn't grow there. And right now you need an environment where you can grow and be respected. You have much to offer, but when the bottom line is all that can be seen by the upper management, potential is ignored.

Open your wings and fly, my good friend - let no one and nothing hold you back!

Love, M

[Giligan]

Originally Posted by rlpw

Must be all the yall's, Dem dere's, and our use of the word Darlin constantly.

NOOOOOO! Must...not...listen. Must...speak...like....a....Minnesotan....

Just kidding. You bet'cha.

[Sage]

Originally Posted by Giligan

NOOOOOO! Must...not...listen. Must...speak...like....a....Minnesotan....

Just kidding. You bet'cha.

Hehehe!
You're reminding me of the time when a lady sitting next to me at an airport overheard me speaking to someone else and said in what had to be the Ultimate Minnesotan Accent, "Wow, that's some accent 'cha got there! Where the heck are ya from?".

[Jatsie]

I don't think I've ever heard a Minnesotan accent, I have no point of reference.

[Sage]

Rent the movie "Fargo".

[Jatsie]

I found and watched this trailer, is it enough to give me an adequate understanding of the Minnesotan accent?

[Sage]

That's a taste, yes, but you have to watch the movie to get the full effect.

It's a very good movie, by the way.

[Jelena]

Does that mean that the accent of the police woman Marge (Frances McDormand who was brilliant btw) actually is the accent of Minnesotans? She said that Swedish sounding Jaaa every now and then which of course made me laugh.