'http://youtu.be/xN-o21Y79jg|||shark|||This Thing is really taking too long.|||Why is it that we have to 'do' something to be ourselves? When I'm out writing in public, people always have to come up to me and ask if I'm a writer. Yes, this is what I'm doing. I'm writing. Oh,...|||double post|||Thank you so much! I've been trying to stay above the water, but not trying to attract sharks with too much movement. So it goes to maintain a melancholic, leaning mind. Really, thank you for your...|||Writing, reading and gin.|||I don't like receiving gifts. When the mood strikes me (randomly), I like to buy things for people. Personal adornment usually, jewelry and scarves. I love shopping for women more than men because...|||Will I ever meet someone in this world who doesn't want to manipulate me?|||Guest taught at the university this week (critiques of final architecture projects). Lovely young, creative minds. Hope I made a different.|||I've been away from this forum for a week, but I have nobody else to talk to at the moment. Feeling empty. Thanks to everyone for their wonderful posts!|||You try to sheild your values against the truth. I've been working on accepting things the way they are lately and not being totally destroyed in the process. It hasn't been easy.|||I needed to hear this. Just wrote about loneliness in my journal today.|||foreshadowing|||scrub|||This is the way it's suppose to be. My little dog licks my cheek. My eyes swell with tears. It remains uncomplicated. Just beauty. Right on my face.|||I just realized while watching Ellie Powell that if I was a woman I'd be a dancer. Graceful and those legs! I would specialize in ballet and tap on the side.|||http://youtu.be/jKVhF6LgFn4  Ellie Powell in 'Honolulu' one of my favorite scenes!|||http://youtu.be/-vDhuZzNRCM  Going tonight! RiffTrax!|||Think I'll stare out this window for now.|||You notice someone you know walk into a place. You know they saw you, but they never come over and say hello. You get really bummed and start listing off the reasons you disliked that person anyway....|||From what I've noticed, kind faces.|||My take. What you do for money in this world doesn't matter. If you follow your passions, you may not make any money. When it's over, nobody will remember your money. Our passions are the languages...|||One of my girlfriends, we got together after I served her charcuterie and we discussed The Fountainhead.|||grasp|||Finished another journal today! Now, if I could read my handwriting......|||You can spend your day getting status reports on the existence of fairies.|||I really don't like it when other people try to condemn me with their values. It's like they're reading insults to me from a Rainbow Bright coloring book. Waste of time for them and material for me...|||'Keeps getting better.' Forgot about this thread. Thanks for reviving it!|||Yes, I am writing. No, I don't want to talk to you about it. I came to a public place to be alone. Oh, that is insightful, my handwriting looks like a Richter scale reading. Why don't you go back to...|||Could be sexy if it wasn't for that smile. ;) (I think that's how you do a wink as the 'kids' do it).  Also, good on you, the image is vertical!   Now, I have to find someone to take a 'recent'...|||My motto is: The biggest challenge in life seems to be getting over oneself.|||Now, I lie in bed with sleeping shorts and shirt. Warm socks on my feet. The soft cotton sheets snuggly tucked around me makes a womb. All for my much anticipated day's end retreat from consciousness.|||I've never been called cute. Sexy, yes. Handsome, yes. Charming, yes. Cute, no. Must be my deeper voice. It doesn't lend itself to cuteness. If someone has thought I was cute, they never said it out...|||Never coming back from the 'other' side of mental health.   It makes me avoid confrontation, stress, instability, crowds, anything that slightly elevates irritation, ignorance, and lack of...|||This is it. A community of like minds. I'm not against social networking. It's just not my thing. I barely answer my phone.|||Isn't that where oil and chemtrails come from?|||Absolutely! Beliefs are personally. Ask yourself what you gain by telling them about your beliefs. Religion is a very tricky situation no matter what the personality type. I'm old enough now where my...|||Ok.|||Could I ask if you have conducted your thermos experiment yet?|||Just flipping through my latest edition!! It's like a porn mag but I don't have to hide it under my mattress.  http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/02/30dffcb865e7b398cfa25475b9f69a1f.jpg|||The baristas have noticed my absence in the last two weeks. I guess I haven't noticed. That's how it happens. You go along and other people have to point it out.|||Thanks. I hope it's a lone wolf and not a scout for a pack settling in for the winter. Need to stay active in the next week.|||Could just be circumstance, alignment of the everything. I don't really prefer to be with anyone who isn't compassionate to the human experience. I can't tolerate people with a lack of empathy and...|||I have tried. Best to see how things work out. Don't force it. My ex-wife and I split eight years ago, I haven't seen her since. My last girlfriend is still around after our  split a year and a...|||Why do I get pity when I'm going to be alone for the holidays? I look at them, the ones doing the pitying, and draw comparisons to my 'loneliness' where I don't have to be with people I can't stand,...|||The 'Black Dog' has been sniffing around my place today.|||refer|||I couldn't remember it fully so I had to look it up, but:  I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.   As he has another beer from rejection.|||Poor unlucky Santiago.'