(yes, this is what i do with my time.)

"I would work for ever and ever even without the impetus to do so."

Figure it out.

Note: I think work is good. What I think is dumb, is working at a job you hate/and/or suck at just because you think you must "put in your hours" somewhere. Um, not helping; go home. You know what else is irrelevant? I didn't know I wrote like I had an opinion until OAC law class when my teacher handed me back an assignment with a note (beside her phone number and a smiley face): "I can tell you are passionate about this topic, but be careful not to sound too one-sided." But when I am two-sided and balanced, teacher, I hear, "Sonya, make up your mind, I do not know what you want, I do not trust your wavering." 

Snippet.

I don't want to talk to him right now; you know what I mean? I'm not in that dating mood where I'm like, "Oh really? *giggle* You're so cool!" (Amber)

You are here for this. You are the balance.

The Necessary Foil. [Rumi] XCIII
Privation and defect, wherever seen,
Are mirrors of the beauty of all that is.
The bone-setter, where should he try his skill
But on the broken limb? The tailor where?
Not, surely, on the well-cut finished coat.
Were no base copper in the crucible,
How could the alchemist his craft display?

Napoleon Hill excerpts and paraphrases

"When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance."

Yes. Every moment of my life I see this in action.

Determine to remain ready until you get that which you are seeking. Never change your mind. Stick to your resolve.

An intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, BE DETERMINED TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL YOU REALIZE IT.

Done.

"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another."

HAHAAAA. Not applicable to me. (Though I'm sure that some would appreciate it if I faltered.)

"Maybe young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single DESIRE, was destined to mow down all opposition, and bring him the opportunity he was seeking. When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity."

I don't like the sound of that back-door slippage.

quote of last night that i forgot to post but that when i said it, like a dork i immediately thought, "i must put this on the blog thingy"

LP, reading through the Georgia Strait for new musical acts: "Do you like Nashville Pussy?"

Me, out of it: "I only buy local."

" If everybody acquires a better education my better education will not mean much."

From http://jonjayray.tripod.com/overed.html

"Even outside the humanities it is possible that we might be overeducated. This is particularly so in those increasingly frequent cases where supply leads demand. This comes about because many people, quite realistically, see education as the key to advancement in life. They therefore want to get a better education for themselves or for their children. For this reason they support political moves to make education free and more widely available. There is a fallacy of composition involved here, however. If everybody acquires a better education my better education will not mean much. When competing to get the best jobs I will be no better off in comparison with others than I was before. What has happened is that the standard required to have a chance of getting a particular job has risen. In future, no-one will get such a job unless society has made a bigger and bigger investment in his education. Where once the completion of primary school was sufficient qualification for me to become a clerk in the Public Service, the Public Service is now even employing university graduates as clerks. Where does the spiral stop? How long will it be before even the garbage man has to have a university degree? "

Also like these sites from same author: http://jonjayray.tripod.com/rightism.html
http://edwatch.blogspot.com/

okay then.

"I have learned that you can’t make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved…"

http://ye.entreworld.org/SF2002/mentmess.cfm

A Letter to Readers from
Mark Victor Hansen
Co-Founder,
Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises

I first realized I was an entrepreneur when I was about nine years old. I desperately wanted a bicycle, but my father said he wouldn't let me have one until I was 21. I negotiated him down to 16 - if I could earn the money.
It was right before Christmas, so I ordered cards from the American Greeting Card Company. The agreement was that I could sell the cards for $2 a box and keep $1 a box. I was pretty aggressive about selling, and all the neighbors seemed to love my smile. I just kept making a bigger and bigger circular "sweep" from my house and eventually out to other neighborhoods. That's how I became the number one door-to-door card salesman in the "nine-year-old division" of American Greeting Cards. Ultimately, I bought the bicycle with half the money and put the other half in savings.
When I started writing and speaking at age 26, I had no idea that I would eventually sell 80 million Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Thirty-three major publishers turned down our first book. Our agent fired us, and said this book of soppy stories would never sell. Then we went to a book expo and 134 more people turned us down. From my selling experiences as a youth, I knew that somebody would eventually say "yes" if I kept looking - no matter how much resistance or pain there was - and they did.
The most important advice I have for any young business person is to keep dreaming until you have the whole picture of what you want to accomplish. You have to know exactly what you want to achieve. Next, put the goal in writing, look at it every day, and begin to visualize yourself reaching that goal. Then, put together a team to get your dream. Find somebody who is a success in your field of interest, and ask them to teach you what they know. If you follow these steps, you will achieve even more than you dream.