Friday Ephemera

Hi everyone. I am waiting to see if HR will give me a leave of absence to go to Ukraine. I suspect it will take longer than it took the Ukrainians to acknowledge my application. I’m a bit depressed waiting around and watching the war going badly. Farnsworth and or WTP, are you folks near north Georgia? We went there on vacation last summer. My son’s first time fly fishing in waders. Caught some small trout. Visited Blue Ridge, Copperhill, Elijay. Of course we went to the Bigfoot museum. Fun area. If you guys are local, let’s try to link up. I’m in Savannah but try to get up that way periodically.

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I am considering emulating her approach to life, as it obviously is, or is a big part of, the secret to happiness. Look at that inner glow of contentment that just lights up her face.

He’s got a point. I hope their prepping includes lots of firearms, though.

Causation arrow goes the other way. Those people go into those professions because they’re already ****ed up.
Can it sometimes be the opposite of what you say? For instance, people who become so accustomed to telling others what to do that they develop habits that spill into the rest of their lives? I don’t know many people in the social worker fields, but I had several conversations recently with one who showed a tendency to explain everything in excruciating detail as if the people she was talking to were patients unable to manage their own lives.
Also: I recall someone, commenting years ago, that teaching children was a dangerous profession because one could become accustomed to having an unnatural amount of authority over others and slowly unlearn how to get along with adults.

Causation arrow goes the other way. Those people go into those professions because they’re already ****ed up.
As much as I mostly agree with this, there are people who are drawn to that profession due to close friends or relatives with those problems or due to family environment. I had a middle-child friend, their father was an anesthesiologist, the older two boys became doctors, the youngest a lawyer. The father worked a lot of hours. I rarely saw him when visiting. The oldest and the youngest were constantly fighting and the middle one held things together by playing peacemaker. He himself was the most rational of the three. The younger was a bit of a whiner and the older one could not tolerate the younger one’s BS. My friend ended up getting his MD in psychiatry.

Can it sometimes be the opposite of what you say?
Well, it’s never that simple, obviously. There’s a feedback loop at play.
teaching children was a dangerous profession because […]
Exactly this. As a related example, one reason I don’t date single mothers is that they’re constantly trying to make me wear my jacket when it’s chilly out or cut the crusts off my crostini or whatever. They can’t turn it off.