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Has anyone had to deal with the problem of changing themselves in a work environment in order to stay happy at work? I almost feel like I have to put this mask on from day to day...and it's not me..and I love my job...but the environment here...it's a killer... |
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*that's* messed up. i feel like i've gone from 16 to 82 in a year. |
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I am wearing pajama pants but I need to go the library. I will have to go to the library at some point but I think I will wear my pajama pants there too. It is raining. Work is awful, kalli. |
I wish I could make a living by crocheting and painting and making signs. Seriously, can you make a living being a sign-maker? I love doing that. I make wooden plaques with a word or phrase painted on them and hang them around my apartment. |
I always wanted to paint a psalm around the border of a room, like some people airbrush stencils. I love words. |
. Hmm. What would the word be? .. "undress" . "wtf" . "sign" . What do yours say, Spider? . "office" (with a circle and line through it.) |
. Odd family though. |
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One says "LOVe YOU DeAD" in red and has a picture of a rat's head on it. That was my homage to the Young Ones and a visual threat to the rats I see in the parking lot. One has a verse from Dante's "Paradiso" and is simply black on white. I used to have one that had "QUOTIDIE MORIOR" ("I die daily") on it with a picture of the Sacred Heart, but I gave that away. I've made others, but they're gone, too. I just love letters and words and phrases. I was so psyched to see Sr. Corita Kent's (my grandmother's cousin, and the designer of the "LOVE" postage stamp) art, to see that she used words with her images and loved lettering, too. Clearly, it's genetic. |
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. I will meditate on this matter and get back to you on the word. |
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I have some pot in my apartment that I keep forgetting about (yes, I am that busy). Part of the problem is that I have to replace the bong I broke last year and I keep forgetting to do that too. I like words. Spider, I might commission you to make me a sign when I start my dissertation. |
In my old house, there was a weird dividing wall with a gap on the top, so I made a set of flat boards with paper mache and words on them. My original plan was to have it like random poetry, where you could flip the boards and mix them up and have each side say something different and neat. I ended up using two headlines, so one side said "polar bears feel the heat in hudson bay," and the other says "global arms trade's one rule: ability to pay." Now that I don't have a nifty place to hang them so that you can see both sides, global arms trade hangs above my bed. Sometimes I flip it. Words and word art are awesome, and you can totally make a living being a sign maker. My tiny town actually supports two very talented sign makers and there are a lot of beautiful hand lettered wooden signs around. I should I suppose also admit that I have a very large collection of cool road signs, like "bridge freezes before road" and "Hogwarts Way." (No shit, there is a road here called that.) And "Nameless Lane" and a Do Not Enter sign that someone neatly pasted "Iraq" under. And a "STOP (eating animals)" sign. And many more...road signs are neat, especially when they are unintentionally funny. |
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*sigh* I'm hopeless. Signs are much easier to make than shrines, though. Send me your commission when you've got it, Kazoo. |