Posts Tagged ‘Expectations’

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What am I supposed to do?

by Seraphine Khorana on September 3rd, 2009
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What am I supposed to do?

You may have noticed fewer updates to Encore Seraphine lately. I’m lethargic, exhausted, depressed. My chest hurts and my throat burns. I dread turning off the lights at night to (try to) sleep. My blood, urine and xrays are all normal. The doctor thinks it’s likely stress, so he’s given me the antianxiety drug Ativan. I’ve given up coffee and chocolate. I’m not visiting my friend’s blogs like I should. I feel like I’m letting everyone down: my readers, my friends, my spouse, even (especially) myself. I’d like my life back. Haven’t you felt that way too?

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Quotation from Richard Carlson

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Dear Employee

by Seraphine Khorana on August 26th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Dear Employee

“Your paycheck will be delivered via Thought Transference. Please ensure you have a valid connection with the Human Resource Department or your salary could be delayed indefinitely.”

When you have too much month for your paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day, abundance will come to you.
Quotation from Sydney Madwed

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Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

by Seraphine Khorana on August 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Full Disclosure Up/side/Down

Everyone wants full disclosure. What everyone gets is indecipherable legalese and footnotes. The general rule is: The longer the disclosure, the riskier the thing being disclosed.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Quotation from Jane Austen

(To employ a return, models and other likely readers of Encore Seraphine (either casually, temporarily, permanently, blindly or on secondment) to carry out the object of the attraction upon such terms and conditions as they may from time to time consider desirable, or not, and to terminate such extension or harmony, and to unpay their interest, readership, right to post, gratitude or miscellaneous charges out of their rich uncle’s pocket and to confer upon any mark or substitute model so appointed the right to exercise without liability or severability any discretion or misconception which may be vested in the original comic therein without prior notification, including exclusions, or vice versa).

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A Peep Out of Me

by Seraphine Khorana on August 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
A Peep Out of Me

1. Make some noise. It’s life affirming.
2. “What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind.”
3. Years from now, nobody will remember anyway.

Come, come, come, come, give me your hand.
What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
Spoken by Lady Macbeth, The Tragedy of Macbeth by Wm. Shakespeare

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Experience Here Counts Double

by Seraphine Khorana on August 17th, 2009
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Experience Here Counts Double

When you are with your best friend, the value of time is doubled.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Poem by Robert Frost, A Time to Talk

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What Ever Happened to the Pretty Girl?

by Seraphine Khorana on April 8th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
What Ever Happened to the Pretty Girl?

Being the “pretty girl” isn’t about beauty. The pretty girl makes things happen. It’s a combination of confidence, will and expectation.

So if you wanna go, walk right out that door
Cos I don’t want no more of your pretty girl bullshit
If you wanna leave, it’s okay with me, matter of fact
I’m begging please take your pretty girl bullshit.
Lyrics from Mario Winans and Foxy Brown, Pretty Girl Bullshit

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The Obama Honeymoon

by Seraphine Khorana on November 6th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
The Obama Honeymoon

I have great expectations for you, Mr. President-elect Obama. I hope I’m not being unreasonable. I believe in equal opportunity and equal rights for all people, including equal protection under the law. I don’t believe government can (or should) do everything, but I think government should be honest and balanced and measured to be inclusive of individuals rather than exclusive of them. I wish you bon voyage and a happy honeymoon.
P.S. Please invite me to the rehearsal dinner.

I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage.
Quotation from President Gerald Ford to the U.S. Congress

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake,
heavy with useless experience, rich
with suspicion, rumor, fantasy,
crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge
of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
Poem by Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

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Missing Zenzi

by Seraphine Khorana on October 28th, 2008
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Missing Zenzi

D.H. Lawrence was candidly against physical repression. He believed that one should acknowledge one’s desires, even if that meant exploring darker, non-conformist forms of passion, like infidelity.

In the long run, she says ‘Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me?’ And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.
Quotation from D.H. Lawrence, on Women

My advice is this: Settle! That’s right. Don’t worry about passion or intense connection… Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go… Settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year.
Quotation from Lori Gottleib, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough (The Atlantic)

The ‘Whom have you ever loved?’ quotation in today’s comic is taken from D.H. Lawrence’s The Captain’s Doll. (Literature.org)

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Setting Routines of Immutable Classes

by Seraphine Khorana on July 18th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Setting Routines of Immutable Classes

Nothing is organized. I try to be more than what people expect,
but other people’s expectations don’t always mesh. That creates
a personal struggle. It’s not like I’m a problem person. Or am I?

Do You Have Any Rituals? (self-injury.net) *warning: very troubling and disturbing to read

“Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of
humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the
animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
Quotation from a speech by Adolf Hitler (1928)

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.”
Quotation from Franz Kafka, The Third Notebook

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