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Name: anna
Metro: Nashville
Interests: rain. painting. museums. incense. pocky. the strokes. baguette fights. stamps. mindfreak. monty python. mystery science theater 3000. the acklen house. taking pictures. eric draven. thrift stores. eyes. sandals. socks. gardens. sleeping. POTO. shakespeare in the park. food. hot tea. amigas. mta bus adventures. DDR. sarcasm. coffeh. veggies and fruit. movies. the SMP. shoes. chewy gobstoppers. family guy. lighters. dragon park. fire. the great escape. borders. mad libs. calvin and hobbes. limonata. arizona iced green tea. cds. hillsboro village. monet.
Expertise: consuming more food than the average person.
Occupation: Student.
Industry: Industry this!
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AIM:  rjab3
Member Since:
6/14/2004
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| Many of you I've already spoken to about this. Don't worry -- no one's hurt or in trouble. It's not a life-or-death matter.
What I'm going to be talking about is business and how that's going to be disrupting my social life for a while.
First off, what's up at the office. So there's this thing called the Summer Conference 2 (SC2) that I'll be going to on 7/24-7/25. Some of you might recall that I attended something like this a few weeks ago in Asheville. The conference that I'm now going to is, however, much much bigger than the one in Asheville. The conference that I attended in Asheville had what we call a "push" for about a week. This push was a competition between our division and NC. SC2 has a push of about 17 days, and we're now competing against 4 divisions. This is huge (that's what she said).
Second off, why the push is going to pull me away. For this push, I have committed to being on an alliance called the 10K Alliance. What this is saying is that for seventeen days, you will not see me much. I am going to be living, breathing, sleeping CUTCO. If I'm not at appts, I'm at the office at 7AM, learning as much as possible and booking more appts... all to sell $10,000 worth of CUTCO in seventeen days. Now, understand, this is me selling 10K. Just me. This push is going to be the most difficult thing I have ever tried to do.
So, you're wondering why I'm giving up such a large chunk of my summer to CUTCO? It's going to sound dumb to you, but it's why I'm telling you here. This is important to me. You might ask me, "Why?" and what I can ask you is, "Why not?" There are a lot of things that can come out of this push that are going to help me in the long run. I'm not doing this job for the money anymore. This has become something that's really teaching me how to battle things going on in my personal life, along with learning business. It's something that I just want to be able to say that, "Yeah, I committed to this, and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. But I made it through," That's what I want to be able to say. "From July 7th to July 23rd, I worked my ass off, and I learned a little more about life and what it has to offer."
So, my question for you is, have you ever found one thing that you committed to 100%? Completely committed to? If so, you'll understand what I'm doing this for. If not, I dare you to seek it out.
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| "Too late. The queen is caught between love's pain and press. She feeds the wound within her veins; she is eaten by a secret flame. Aeneas' high name, all he has done, again, again come like a flood. His face, his words hold fast her breast. Care strips her limbs of calm and rest." (Book IV, the Aeneid) I don't know what it is about this opening of Book IV that gets me. Maybe it's that idea of love being so powerful that it's painful... that it overtakes you... Something that I've been constantly coming back to all semester is the idea of perception. So, with this passage, what is it about this kind of love that makes us idealize it so much? Is it that it's unattainable? Because it's not normal? Is it really love, or is it the power of lust and hormones? Does love have the power to affect the body physically? Is that really what love is? Is it really love itself that drives us? I don't know... for a long time, I think that this was this idea of love that I always wanted to experience, but I don't think that's the same for me anymore. I don't want the pain of love, the excitement of its strength... I feel like being able to be in love with someone would go beyond the physical aspects. Sure, all the physical aspects are part of it, but I don't think it represents love or being in love. but then again, what it comes down to is it's my perception of the entire thing. i'm sure that going through different experiences affects it, that it might completely change. i mean, that's how it happened in the first place. words and words and words. I guess none of it really matters in the end. | | |
| new outlet: LOUD MUSIC = DISTRACTION FROM THINKING and muse is just/always the thing | | |
| Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 | | |
| Make it to Friday night. That's my goal. then homehomehooooooooome. (but not forgetting that i have to write two papers over break x_x fuck my life) | | |
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