various commentary from the cheap seats...

helena kim (helenak@geocities.com)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 00:57:08 +0000 

>         It seemed me that Jim's piece on the New Testament was

>         several heads & shoulders above anything I've read so far

>         from the rest of us.



it was so good that i'm actually considering taking a place in college

doing 'biblical & theological studies' that i scoffed at last year...



gracias!



>         On a wholly different tack, would Helena explain to someone

>         fifty years older & stupider the irony of the 'human race' ?

>         (I thought the last thing irony should be is blatant.)



it's just that i was on the bus home and there were a

million things running through my mind, you know:



-must finish photography project and get a distinction

-must get better graphics for my presentation than john had last week

-must ring hairdresser and make apt. to put hair in braids cause it's
not particularly impressive right now

-must catch up on all email to 

-try and revamp website, make it *good*, better than <insert name
here>'s, who keeps nagging me about an update.



and i was listening to radiohead on my ever present walkman and thom

yorke said something along the lines of 'i just want to be a part of the

human race.' and it struck me that all i'm trying to achieve here is to

sustain a fragile position one step ahead of my 'peers' and that it's

all just a horrible nasty devious race where everyone cheats and we all

look at each other suspiciously and try and gauge what tricks are coming

next. it's not about humanity or personality at all, it's about trying

to outdo each other in a marathon of 'success'.



ecas came forth:


> I did see "Prozac Nation" as a sort of spiritual horror story with its

> "Happy Ending" just a slight bit too plastic coated...which is what made

> the book so completely scary to me.

i will expand/react to this later, when it's not so *late*.

why is it always so LATE!? i feel like i'm eternally trying to catch
up...

:helena, all sugared up with nowhere to go.

p.s. out of curiosity, do any of you who read catcher as teenagers have
kids now who are teenagers? what's that like? do they enjoy it too, or
is it rejected in the same tone of disgust as everything your dad
recommends is?


p.p.s. whoever, a few weeks ago, posted a response to some argument, and
ended his/her post with 'DO IT FOR THE KIDS!!!', thank you. it's such a
fantabulous phrase!  love & dolly mixture...




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