Another thing: I'm not sure I understand what many people mean when they talk about "guilt," these days. When they say that so-and-so is making them feel "guilty," is it possible that what they really mean is that that person is reminding them of a specific obligation they have, either to that person, to themselves, or whom or whatever else? If that's the case we probably shouldn't chastise people for making us feel "guilty," but rather thank them for the service they've done both ourselves and our society.
posted by victor lams at 12:11 AM

There are no coincidences, just unmarked convergences.

It's too late to be profound, I'm going home.
posted by victor lams at 10:03 PM

Mowing a small lawn is a pleasure second only to watering a small lawn.
posted by victor lams at 12:16 PM

A brief note about greeting cards:

I find the whole greeting card enterprise a little confusing: very often they already have words written in them, many times in the form of rhymed couplets (which don't scan very well at all). The only place to write in a greeting card is on the inside-cover of the card (though I've noticed that some cards have writing there, too!). But anything you might write there just looks like its competing with the preprinted sentiment, as if the card you selected said almost everything you meant to say, but was inadequate and so now, you, the amateur dares to improve upon it, or perhaps you didn't really read the card until you got it home and now you're trying to compensate for not spending more time in the store trying to select just the right card. Anyway, the whole ordeal is just best left avoided.

Though, I suppose I could buy blank greeting cards. But then I'd really need to come up with something clever to say.
posted by victor lams at 4:28 PM