I've come a short ways from my status as a bottom-feeder (in the aquarium of reality). I thought I would begin putting words to some of the structures I think I've gathered and understood and would like to implement and manage further in the ways I choose to live.
Inevitable and must be accepted / incorporated
Things that are hard to stop eating until it's gone, in the order I can think of it:
- sticky rice (the sushi kind, with rice vinegar)
- pickled ginger
- olive oil and salt (and pepper)
- roasted, unsalted peanuts
- raw walnuts
- certain colby cheeses
- coconut oil
- salted butter
- roasted garlic
- grilled onions
- The Californian from Otto's (I think it's the bacon)
- quinoa
- pumpkin curry at Tom Yum
- butter-garlic sautéed button mushrooms (I call it vegetarian escargo -- vegan if you replace butter with olive oil)
- cod veronique a la Lili
- good peanut sauce
Some a capella best ev's:
(but first, do your 'reading')
1) Poker Face
"Poker Face" Lady Gaga music video
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A Capella!
- UCB Noteworthy -
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2) Umbrella
"Umbrella" Rihanna ( ft. Jay-Z ) music video
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A Capella!
- Duke's Men of Yale -
(with choreography)
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3) Annie Waits
"Annie Waits" Ben Folds music video
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A Capella!
- A-Men -
1) Not being concerned with rationing food! (and not looking wistfully at the lower prices of by-product-filled foods)
2) Being able to buy both food and other things (like bus tickets! and going to the doctor!)
3) Having budget that does not assume that I will find a good number of things for free.
4) Not thinking too much about what pens and art supplies cost
5) Affording extracurricular education
(in no particular order)
1) surpass my masters
2) follow the tributaries to the river
3) follow the river to the ocean
4) become the ocean
5) to be bridges
6) to be glad to have been here
7) to wedge at least one life into this lifetime*
Mistakes I have made:
1) Assuming that people I want to learn from are willing or able to teach
2) Assuming that people who are teaching know the best way for me to learn
3) Waiting for other people
4) Thinking that others might wait for me
5) Denying or delaying my own interests/abilities for the perceived sake of others
6) Refusing to defend myself from people who love me
7) Refusing to defend myself from people I love
8) Hoping that others might be willing to make such mistakes for my sake
9) Thinking that I was right
10) Thinking that I was wrong
11) Assuming that if a person knows me closely, they necessarily also know me well.
12) *Listening to others (more than to myself)
13) Not knowing what to say when I hear things that I don't believe to be true.
14) Thinking that if someone does not think well of me, that there is something I can do better or differently to gain their esteem.
15) Thinking that someone(14) did not think well of me
