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Thanks for posting those pictures!!!! You are not ugly .... a little scary maybe, but not ugly :D . I went to look for your other post to recommend that you take a look at the video "10 hours of Walking in NYC As a Woman". It is clear (to me) that Shoshanna Robertson is not separating hers...

Doogie, You're right that part of the interview is reading the other person. A skill that I know that I'm lacking in. Currently, I am so ate up trying to "act natural" that I come off artificial ... and the worst part is when I think I'm being "artificial" I try to amp up my &quo...

Sarbear25, Have you ever read any of David Sedaris' writing? My mother used to complain about the Christmas letters she would get from our relatives ... Little Jimmy has a full scholarship to college, Bill is president of the Rotary ... etc. I am beginning to feel sorry for those people who have suc...

Citm, Totally agree that these three axioms: 1. Find it interesting or wanting to conquer it. 2. Have the energy to start and see it through. 3. Feel that it has priority over other things in your day. Define motivation. Trouble is what happens when you don't have the pre-requistite conditions? Can ...

Citm, Love your attitude! You've given two concrete suggestions, that both sound like they would help. Not promising ... but I've put go through the "Living with Depression" thread on my list of things to do. Maybe I'll cut and paste to create a "hints from Hell-o-weese" post.

Doogie, I think this tangent is apropos to chemical vs. psychological. Yesterday I was working a puzzle in a variety puzzle magazine. I came to a place where I thought it was messed up. I couldn't find the answer. Put it down and came back to it this morning. Was still messed up, but I decided to ke...

My cycle started later in life ... :roll: As a "difficult" teenager I was always told ... "You were such a happy baby." :evil: I think a lot of my "difficulty" comes from the fact that I believed a lot of the lies people told me as a child. For instance ... I believed i...

Think that you've messed up?

Look at this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magaz ... .html?_r=0

Hailey, Forums are a great place for me to practice what I think of as magic. I look at these posts as mirrors that let me affect my reality. Because I'm older ... over 50 ... I try to think of how I've changed my point of view to become happier. Like ItsOnlyMe ... it is possible to make yourself ha...

What Tazy said. I'm sure all your friends say "Don't Try So Hard." I think that if you're lucky that you find a puzzle piece that matches. If you're not you need to become flexible enough to find a way to match another piece. What I'm saying is if you just think about fun then other people...

Look at the books at

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:All_Books

Let me know if you want to donate a picture to one of them and I can help you do it.

Using the word "retard" isn't cool until you're with people who know you. I know what you mean ... and my personal definition of "retard" includes Wayne and Garth, and Beevis and Butthead vs. Harry and Loyd from Dumb and Dumber or Jim Carrey or Forest Gump. Needs to be a word for...

I try not to look at life in binary terms .... I want to think about it as a continuum. So I reject your statement: " Maybe people think I should just settle for a woman who I'm completely turned off by, and / or who's life is an even worse train wreck than my own ? I contemplate this daily.......

Love yourself and the women will be there. When meeting / dealing with people I think they care more about trajectory than looks or other features of personality. People like to help, but they don't want responsibility. We call emergency services (911 in America) to either get direction or to get he...

Would you be interested in learning how to add stuff to Wikipedia ... Maybe make your own Wikibook? The thought of marketing makes me nauseous. I enjoy the people ... like Cory Doctorow ... who believe that society is changing so that we can live in a post-scarcity economy. Karma / Good Will / what ...