Wednesday, January 04, 2006
i have been watching too much TV, but:
my parents must have raised me with an appropriate amount of liberal guilt, because over the last couple of months i've been feeling really bad about telling homeless people on the train that i can't help them get food. i know all the arguments; it's illegal to beg on the train, you can't tell who's legit, money gets used for nasty stuff. frankly, though, there's just something awful about telling someone you don't have a dollar for them when you know it wouldn't make a bit of difference, that it would hardly make a dent even if you gave two dollars to every single person who asked. and even if it's for thunderbird. how does the accident of fate that got me born into a middle-class family make me the arbiter of who deserves a dollar for anything?
one time i ran into a seattle acquaintance totally randomly in a st*rbucks on seventh avenue, and i sat down to sip my coffee for a minute, and he introduced me to a friend. i mentioned cash flow worries, and the friend said: feel like you don't have enough money? give away a hundred dollars and notice how completely it doesn't affect you in any meaningful way.
so i chose these people. and the more i think about it, the better i think they are, so if anyone else is looking for a place . . .
the monkey got a new job. actually, possibly two. gooooo, the monkey.
i have started liking our therapist better. i think this is because during the rainy weather he made a funny about how his last client had come in damp and left a very questionable wet spot on the seat of his sofa; the monkey thinks it is because the therapist is agreeing with me more often these days. probably both are true.
NYU, b3rkeley, n0rthewestern and c0lumbia down; br0wn still to go. slow and steady wins the race, they tell me.
one time i ran into a seattle acquaintance totally randomly in a st*rbucks on seventh avenue, and i sat down to sip my coffee for a minute, and he introduced me to a friend. i mentioned cash flow worries, and the friend said: feel like you don't have enough money? give away a hundred dollars and notice how completely it doesn't affect you in any meaningful way.
so i chose these people. and the more i think about it, the better i think they are, so if anyone else is looking for a place . . .
the monkey got a new job. actually, possibly two. gooooo, the monkey.
i have started liking our therapist better. i think this is because during the rainy weather he made a funny about how his last client had come in damp and left a very questionable wet spot on the seat of his sofa; the monkey thinks it is because the therapist is agreeing with me more often these days. probably both are true.
NYU, b3rkeley, n0rthewestern and c0lumbia down; br0wn still to go. slow and steady wins the race, they tell me.
