The Confessions Thread

[jfrey]

I sort of don't get it either. The Boston/New York thing for example. I'm originally from New York, but I've lived in Boston now for more than a third of my life. Still don't get it.

[spacelordmother]

I sort of don't get it either. The Boston/New York thing for example. I'm originally from New York, but I've lived in Boston now for more than a third of my life. Still don't get it.

That one seems to revolve around baseball which makes it like a trillion times more asinine.

[D.o.S.]

No it's cause New Yorkers and Bostonians are both different kinds of assholes and rub each other the wrong way in person, plus Boston has a massive inferiority complex when it comes to NYC - exacerbated by the Sox and the Yankees, and would be by the Celtics and the Knicks if either team was really good.

I bet you guys don't understand the hatfields and the mccoy's either. Sometimes a motherfucker just needs to be hated.

[Iommic Pope]

Really?

You don't get that?

People don't like what they don't understand/aren't familiar with.

I get that, but we reserve that for people from other countries on my island.
Generally speaking.

I bet you guys don't understand the hatfields and the mccoy's either. Sometimes a motherfucker just needs to be hated.

Ok, that sounds like some idiosyncratic (in a US-centric kind of way) piece of American history that we just don't get educated about. What's deals?

[dubkitty]

there's a bright, sunlit corridor at work linking the two halves of the third floor with a countertop/tabletop where the catalog people stand when they're looking over their proofs. on that countertop there's a large sharp-bladed kitchen knife that gets used to cut up cakes and other such goodies when folks bring them in. every day when i walk past that knife i have a momentary temptation to pick it up and drive it deep into my chest. i'm too scared to do it and it'd be a shitty thing to do to the folks who have to work there, but i think about it every day i'm at work.

[dubkitty]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield–McCoy_feud

[Iommic Pope]

Cheers Dubs.
Also, don't stress, that is a typical reaction to work.

[spacelordmother]

Dubs - I'm really glad to know that you're putting yourself out there to get help. Have you started yet?

We're all here for you, but there is only so much we can do from afar. Try to keep hanging on and believe that things can get better.

[Gone Fission]

My mom is planning a trip for her birthday and has asked, instead of normal gifts, for money to help cover costs. I'm onboard. And I'm giving generously. I cut the check to send. In the amount of her age.

How I can be that evil and not big time into metal confuses me.

[Ugly Nora]

there's a bright, sunlit corridor at work linking the two halves of the third floor with a countertop/tabletop where the catalog people stand when they're looking over their proofs. on that countertop there's a large sharp-bladed kitchen knife that gets used to cut up cakes and other such goodies when folks bring them in. every day when i walk past that knife i have a momentary temptation to pick it up and drive it deep into my chest. i'm too scared to do it and it'd be a shitty thing to do to the folks who have to work there, but i think about it every day i'm at work.

Seems excessive. Just get another job that you like better.

[MEC]

there's a bright, sunlit corridor at work linking the two halves of the third floor with a countertop/tabletop where the catalog people stand when they're looking over their proofs. on that countertop there's a large sharp-bladed kitchen knife that gets used to cut up cakes and other such goodies when folks bring them in. every day when i walk past that knife i have a momentary temptation to pick it up and drive it deep into my chest. i'm too scared to do it and it'd be a shitty thing to do to the folks who have to work there, but i think about it every day i'm at work.

Seems excessive. Just get another job that you like better.

I don't think you understand.
More info here: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=12806

[D.o.S.]

I was just presented with a crazy, crazy opportunity, but I'm not sure if I should jump on it.

[Iommic Pope]

Is this a fear of failure or a fear of success scenario?
OR a risk that changes necessary to undertake endeavour will potentially not outweigh the benefits?

[D.o.S.]

Well it's more nonfiction, and it's a story that's close enough to my day gig that I'm not sure whether to tell my current editor about it or to quietly shop it to some of my more longform friendly contacts whom I've freelanced for in the past.

And that's the first hurdle before I decide whether it's worth it to pursue, at which point it could totally take a left turn into "waste of my time" while still demanding a lot of attention.

[Iommic Pope]

Ah ok. Yeah, that's tricky.
Opportunity vs. professionalism.
Hmmmmm. Sorry I can't be of more help dude.






YOLO is not real help.