Client: “This looks good. I’d like for you to get together with the project manager (male) and the marketing director (female) for a little ménage à trois before the next phase of the project starts.”
Me (who was only half-listening to this point): “Excuse me?”
Client: “Hmm? oh, ménage à trois? That’s a French phrase. It means collaboration.”
I’m back, ladies and gentlemen.
I have this knack for starting things that I think seem like a great idea at the time, only to abandon them later because of various manifestations of boredom. Examples include:
I’m seriously going to get my stuff together. I’m not going to be a complete and total slacker. And I’ll clean my bathroom. (Because it’s been roughly five weeks. Skanky.)
You can tell a lot about a person by the movies they watch.
The latest movie stub found in my pocket? Julie & Julia from November 27, 2009, at 4:10 p.m.
It’s not that you’re bad people. Because you aren’t. It’s that you don’t realize your intrinsic value as a human being, so you overcompensate, trying to create self worth with your alleged esoteric subculture, and (as a result) make yourself a bad person. Break the cycle!
Now posting bite-sized book reviews over on the “big girl” book blog.
You can tell a lot about a person by the movies they watch.
The latest movie stub found in my pocket? The Proposal from October 10, 2009, at 7:25 p.m.
The significance of your opinions on any given aspect of the world are not directly proportional to the volume with which you deliver them. (Interpreted: “Quiet down. The loud talk gets you attention, just not good attention. You’re irritating.”)
Yeah, so Indiana is pretty awesome. You can all thank us for having books to read in the future.
In an effort to be a good librarian for my church, I read Christian books. Here is where I post quotes that illustrate why they’re not good.
How to Get a Date Worth Keeping by Dr. Henry Cloud
“…Whatever you are doing in any situation is only a scene in a bigger movie…
“Each day, if you never realize that your movie is headed somewhere, it is possible for you to let years go by and not make any changes because you only think about that day or that week. You say to yourself on any given Saturday night, ‘Oh, I have no plans tonight. I wonder what I will do.’ Then you just deal with that night without seeing the larger picture of the story you are writing.
“But, if you play the movie all the way to the end, you realize that if you make no changes to the way you are living your life in this area, next Saturday you will not have a date. And the next one you will not have a date. And the next one you will not have a date. And you will not have a date for the Christmas party. And you will be watching a DVD alone on New Year’s Eve. And you will be going out with your friends on Valentine’s Day. The principle is this: If you continue to do what you are doing, play that out into the future and see if you like the way your life looks five years from now…
“I want you to get a real picture of your life of dating, the way you are going about it, the results it’s bringing you, and what your future will look like if you do not do something different. Remember the old saying, ‘To continue to do the same thing expecting different results is the definition of crazy.’ Understand what you are doing. If you don’t make some changes, the result will be the same.” (pp 45-46).
Now, I’ll admit that I take Bridget Jones to heart—I do fear that I might end up dead and I’ll be eaten by a pack of wild dogs before someone finds me because I’m an old, single spinster. But let’s not go crazy and overstate the situation. It’s not like remaining single is the cultural equivalent of having leprosy. He makes it sound as if you’ll be an utter failure in every facet of your life if you like to watch a DVD or go out with friends. Chillax, Dr. Cloud, I’m single. Not a freak of nature.
