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From the altfriday5:
1. Would you describe yourself as a patient person?
Yes. Or at least I'm definitely better at calmly waiting for things than some people I know.
2. When you are impatiently waiting for something positive (anticipation) or negative (dread) whose arrival you can't control, how do you manage those feelings?
Find something else to do while waiting. Bonus points if it is something that helps prepare for the arrival of expected thing.
3. What about when you have some influence on the arrival/timing of the awaited event?
If that influence means nagging people, I wouldn't do that too much.
4. Have your impatience-managing techniques or approaches changed over time? How?
I may be worse about impatience when I'm feeling older and crankier and thinking that dammit my time is worth more than this.
5. Have other people been helpful in learning different ways of handling this sort of thing?
I've probably been the more patient person most of the time. Hmm, maybe there have been selective issues where I've needed reminders to calm down and wait patiently. It might have worked, or I might have just been moody the whole time.

Gaffe Politics Sucks

And I felt myself getting sucked in last night.

OMG s/he said what!?

Specifically there's this Hillary quote going around that can be construed in a racist way. I fell for it because I'd like to find any evidence in hopes that it's the feather to break that camel's back.

We should spend less time criticizing sloppy speech and more time criticizing things that she meant to say that were wrong.

Like her lame health care proposal. Or (and I wish I had better citations for this) how her rhetoric when she's scripted and on-message is still insufficiently progressive and gets trapped in the conservative mode too often. Or how the McCain/Clinton gas-tax-holiday is dumb.

There! Content! Reason! I feel better now.

Welcome to My Messy Room

There's this thing about naming households around here. I never really got that where I grew up and didn't encounter it seriously until I met queen_of_wands. Despite long discussion and thinking about it, nothing quite fit for my current household (of one) until recently. It is "My Messy Room". Never mind that it's a whole 1bd apartment with kitchen/living/dining/bath. That's what it is. I've welcomed several people to it with that opening line, to me it just works. I have too much stuff and too little space and don't spend enough time organizing it to make it too much better. On the down side, it is a little embarrassing when I think about a girl I like coming over and I suddenly realize what chaos I live in. One of those things to work on, but it's a ways down on the list after diet and exercise and the other things I need to work on. So, for the time being, it will remain my messy room.