Posts Tagged ‘Starting Over’

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Abandon Ship!

by Seraphine Khorana on April 1st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Abandon Ship!

Here’s my plan: I want to be practical. I want to work in the writing/photography/graphics field, but my background is in banking/economics/finance. I need to be completely honest with myself, but I’m torn. Do I make the risky choice or the safe choice? Tell me– What should I do?

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Quotation from Janis Joplin

I have been struggling for many years in pursuit of a career in opera and am finding that it’s the people who have money behind them who are getting places, whether or not they have the best voices… So, yes, I’d marry for money at this point. After all, having the career would make me happy.
Quotation from “pvlstar” on iVillage.com

While $1 million or $2 million may sound like a lot to people making $30,000, it’s hardly enough to transform someone’s life or make them “rich” by contemporary billionaire standards.
Quotation from Robert Frank, Marrying for Love of Money

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Nun’s Farts

by Seraphine Khorana on February 28th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Nun’s Farts

I am soon joining the ranks of the unemployed. My department will shut down in six to twelve months and my “separation package” is contingent on my staying to the very end.

Imagine standing atop a train going 120 mph, and the train goes through a tunnel but you do not. You hit the wall above the opening at 120 mph. That’s how fast you will be going at the end of your fall. Yes, it’s discouraging, but proper planning requires that you know the facts. You’re used to seeing things fall more slowly. You’re used to a jump from a swing or a jungle gym, or a fall from a three-story building on TV action news. Those folks are not going 120 mph. They will not bounce. You will bounce. Your body will be found some distance away from the dent you make in the soil (or crack in the concrete).
Quotation from David Carkeet, Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

“Nun’s Farts” are little dessert pastries that look like cinnamon rolls. These wee confections are also called bourriques de soeurs nuns ‘belly buttons’ or more politely rondelles ‘slices’ or hirondelles ‘swallows.’ Inching a little higher up the obscenity scale, one finds a doughnut-like roll made from leftover home-made bread dough called trous de soeur ‘nun’s holes.’ They are usually eaten with molasses—to sweeten the experience.
Quotation from Bill Casselman, Acadian Food Words & New Origin of the Word Acadia

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Workplace Rumors

by Seraphine Khorana on February 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Workplace Rumors

Eleanor Roosevelt said “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.” But wow, if things end badly, does that mean I’m a failure?

It turns out that rumors — or, more precisely, those rumors that continue to be passed along office grapevines — tend to be substantially true.
Quotation from Joel Lovell, Workplace Rumors Are True (The New York Times)

But for most Ugandans, word of doomsday cults brings bitter memories of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, which burnt hundreds of members alive in a church in Kanungu, near the Congolese border, in March 2000. Police believe leaders systematically killed hundreds more followers after their judgment day forecast failed to happen, and corpses were found in mass graves across the country.
Quotation from Daniel Wallis, Police raid doomsday cult born from floods (Reuters)

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T.G.I.F.

by Seraphine Khorana on October 23rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
T.G.I.F.

In some countries, Friday is the equivalent of Sunday, meaning Saturday is the beginning of their work week, or my equivalent Monday. Some consider Friday to be an unlucky day to begin a voyage, but others say its a lucky day to plant potatoes. It proves not all Fridays are the same; there are Good Fridays, Black Fridays, First Fridays, Casual Fridays and Friday the 13ths. But I shouldn’t complain. Some people work seven days a week– for them, Friday doesn’t really exist at all.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Quotation from Richard Rorty

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The Clean Getaway

by Seraphine Khorana on March 1st, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Clean Getaway

Sometimes i want to get away from it all. No responsibilities. No worries. No pain.

In the cartoon series The Simpsons, Homer Simpson faked his death by tossing a dummy of himself over a waterfall.

In 1865, a man living in Wagga Wagga, Australia, came forward claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir to a large estate who perished at sea 11 years previously. The real Tichborne had been small, dark, sharp-featured and well educated; “the Claimant”, as he became known, was freckled, semi-literate and fantastically fat. In reality, he was Arthur Orton, a butcher from Wapping who had jumped ship in Chile and wound up in Australia.
Tichborne’s elderly mother, however, insisted this vast imposter was her son. The public adored the Claimant, espousing his cause as a way of annoying the Victorian Establishment. After a dramatic trial, Orton was exposed and jailed for ten years, eventually dying in poverty and obscurity. But he still insisted on being buried under the name “Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne”, a dedication to his own hoax that is hard not to admire.
Quotation from The Attraction of Pseudocide (Times Online)

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