Potential...
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ellenmillionI'm feeling pretty generally uphill, and fear I may be coming down with something - I've been having sneezing and sniffling fits, though don't feel particularly under the weather (yet?!).
The uphill feeling comes a bit from working up this post on EMG-Zine, and a bit from staring despondently at my project list in general. They're all great ideas, but I feel like I've failed a bit in execution. I lack appropriate followup. I should've realized sooner that I needed to be able to code my own work. The changes I'm making now should have been made a few months into EMG-Zine, not a few years. Lots of potential, not enough realization. Other similar thoughts.
Shopping right now pisses me off. Seriously. It's not the crowds, it's the displays. I like the glitter and the shinies as much as anyone, but Every Single Thing is made cheaply in China. Hello? I have vowed that I'm not buying any of it this year. If I want a shiny or a pretty, I will commission a friend or make it myself.
Anthology now, while my lunch baked potatoes are baking.
The uphill feeling comes a bit from working up this post on EMG-Zine, and a bit from staring despondently at my project list in general. They're all great ideas, but I feel like I've failed a bit in execution. I lack appropriate followup. I should've realized sooner that I needed to be able to code my own work. The changes I'm making now should have been made a few months into EMG-Zine, not a few years. Lots of potential, not enough realization. Other similar thoughts.
Shopping right now pisses me off. Seriously. It's not the crowds, it's the displays. I like the glitter and the shinies as much as anyone, but Every Single Thing is made cheaply in China. Hello? I have vowed that I'm not buying any of it this year. If I want a shiny or a pretty, I will commission a friend or make it myself.
Anthology now, while my lunch baked potatoes are baking.
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Date: 2008-11-24 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-24 10:01 pm (UTC)China was dragged into the WTO because the the Western world went crazy about the 'one billion costumers' idea. I feel somehow funny (if in a sort of gallows-humor way) that nobody seemed to think that, besides buying, they would also *sell*.
It's not like it didn't happen before, either, just ask the British...
Jenny
Date: 2008-11-26 02:19 pm (UTC)We want cheap stuff, and yet we want well paying jobs... Working in reatil I hear complaints all the time, "'Your' stuff is too expensive!"
Sometimes I want to say, " Do you want the store to still be here for you to actually shop at in person when you need something right away, or not?" >_< Being a cheapskate myself, I do understand the concept of saving up money for something I really want. If you have to save and scrimp for soemthing do you not appreciate it more? We are such a throwaway society, and spoiled! The most recent generation hitting the markets is called "The Me Generation", they are in for a rude surprise.
Oops, that was supposed to be one line and it turned into a rant. Too bad I can not use those lines for naNo! :D
Re: Jenny
Date: 2008-11-26 02:28 pm (UTC)