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    • The Morning So Far - just another birthday

      • Happy Birthday BaNaFsaJ

        Her eyes opened and for a minute, she wasn't sure if it was morning; she hadn't slept well in weeks. Lately, her eyes would pop open and she was sure she'd slept all night only to discover that it was still dark out. For awhile she'd fallen into this crazy sleep pattern where she woke up at 2:45 am three nights in a row and couldn't get back to sleep.

        But today, when her eyes opened, the sun had been up for awhile. And she remembered. Today is her birthday. No doubt her Facebook page would be filled with birthday greetings and the phone would soon ring with a call from her mother and maybe, her daughter. And so it was, but she felt no particular joy this morning. Another day without a job, another morning spent going through the online job sites, hoping, praying that her job was out there; another day to worry about the fact that she had only one more month's expenses left in her bank account. Just another day. There would be no parties, no special dinners, no cake unless she bought it herself.

        Oddly enough, she was no more depressed about this than she had been in recent weeks. Perhaps this is what happens when you're over 50, she thought. Birthday parties are for kids; at this point, celebrating a birthday is just an acknowledgment that she has more years behind her than she has ahead of her. Which is worse - resignation or depression? She'd ponder that later. Time to fire up the computer and begin her daily job hunting routine.

      • answered by FivetoNineDesign on 09/09/2010
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    • The Worst Teacher I Ever Had

      • A teacher should also be a mensch.


        Chinese class

        8th grade math teacher. I was about 12 or 13. He was goofing around at the beginning of the class. Prior to getting into the lesson of the day, he decided he was going to go around and tell us the origin of our names, e.g., a friend who's name was "Amoret", he broke down as "little love". When he got to me, he couldn't figure out the origin of my first name since it was a little odd (no, it's not the name you see here). So he decided to discuss my last name which is "Weal". As a word, 'weal' means 'well-being, for the good of the people', etc. He began with, "Weal means "welfare"..." and the classroom erupted with laughter. A Caucasian teacher decided to make a joke at a very shy 13 year old girl's expense in an urban school. Way to go, man.

      • answered by FivetoNineDesign on 09/02/2010
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    • The Movie That Moved Me-Something's Gotta Give

      • A lovely, intelligently written, funny romantic comedy for adults -- how refreshing!

        Hallelujah - a love story for grownups.

        I thoroughly enjoyed this film because it shows that love and romance are not only for the young. We don't stop feeling romantic and sexual over the age of 50 and heartbreak is heartbreak, no matter how old you are. In fact, my favorite scene in the movie (and one that gets me every time) is when Diane's character sees Jack's character on a date in a restaurant with a younger woman after she has fallen for him. A typical commitmentphobe/Peter Pan type, he doesn't get why she's so upset; to him, it's just a date. Finally realizing the futility in trying to get him to grow up, she kisses him deeply and desperately, looks him in the eyes, holds him tightly so he can't wriggle away and says, "You know what this is? This is heartbroken," and she delivers it in a way that lets you feel every ounce of her pain. She accepts that she can't change him but she wants him to truly know how much he has hurt her.

        This is a funny, SMART, sweet romantic comedy for the rest of us!

      • answered by FivetoNineDesign on 09/02/2010
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    • Hah! I Told You So, Didn't I?

      • Another trip to Heartbreak Hotel...


        Malmo Heartbreak

        A close friend started a 'friends with benefits' relationship with a new guy. It was going well for quite a while, but eventually he started pulling away slightly and being a little less attentive. My friend was starting to fall for this guy and asked me what I thought about the whole thing. I told her that as long as things were going well, she should enjoy it but she should try to protect her heart a little better than she had in the past. She's the type that goes full out, balls to the wall, head over heels when she's in love and I was afraid she was 'cruising for a bruising'. And it turned out I was right. Even though they spent a lot of time together and had met some of each other's family members, he didn't want to be known as her 'boyfriend' and he still kept in touch with a lot of his female friends. I can smell a commitmentphobe a mile away (been there, survived that) and I knew she was in for heartbreak. Unfortunately, I was right. Peter Pan ain't ever gonna grow up and he's not worth the tears.
        Having said all this, though... I'd never tell my friend, "Hah - I told you so!" She knows.

      • answered by FivetoNineDesign on 09/02/2010
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