gja_asks_jane_a_few_things gja Prefix: 1)Im not a stalker. 2)Im a relative new comer to blather and therfore unaware if this is appropriate. 3)Should be working with the people I have asked to stay back tonight, BUT, have totally lost interest in phallic buildings for today and am much more drawn to 070810 ... gja interesting people using words on the net. SO.... 070810 ... gja asks Answer this Jane - I command - 1) What do you do to pay the bills? 2) What do you do to make your mind feel young? 3) Do you look younger or older than you feel - no - dont answer that - its a rude question. 4) Do you believe that manners are important? I do? 5) What is your highest priority? Why? 6) Whats more important - you - OR - the collective? Answer these my friend and I'll give you more questions - good ones - we'll see how deep the rabbit hole goes! 070810 ... jane 1. i work in a cubicle on the 22nd floor of the california environmental protection agency building. i work in the public affairs office. i actually enoy my job, as it allows for me to do creative things, and they're not breathing over my shoulder so i can answer blather questions ;) 2. i discovered about six years ago that it is important to play to keep one's mind young. this includes drawing on my whiteboard at work, playing silly word games, etc. i keep little toy cars in my purse. but i would say overall, doodling is my favorite thing, because it requires a healthy imagination. hell, one of my recent doodles was a pancreas monster who shot arrows out of his eyes. it's just fun! 3. i'm not really sure, actually. sometimes i feel like i'm 45, and sometimes i feel like i'm 12. there isn't really an answer, though i didnt find the question rude 'tall. 4. i do believe manners are important, because they demonstrate respect, even to strangers. and that makes people feel good, hell, it could be the highlight of Their day! warm light in a cold world. well i dont believe the world is really cold, but i do believe everyone deserves respect, at least until they've proven otherwise. (smile) 5. my highest priority right now, ooh thats a toughie. i am definitely making an effort to read, write, draw, or paint almost every day. i am afraid working in an office (even a creative one) will kind of suck my creative passions away. i have to make sure i see my job as a means to do what i really love to do, to make art & music, and not what i Do. {side note: when people ask me, say, at a bar or something, 'what do you do?' i make sure to ask them back, 'what do i Do? or what do i do?' sometimes they get it.} 6. questions getting tougher as they go, huh? i think in a way i sort of Am the collective. because if i take care of myself, that cleans up the Stuff that i put Out There every day. i truly believe everyone is emitting & absorbing, constantly. and i want to be the kind of person that emits goodness {my mother just glows, i have always admired her for that}. and in this way i am doing good for the collective. does that make sense? i don't think it's either-or. i think there is a very delicate balance in between that is subjective. and another thing: subjectivity. s'bob wrote something on blue under "i" - one of the first blathes i ever saw, and has stuck with me throughout the years: " the universe is unique as i see it. no one else sees it EXACTLY the way i see it. which can only mean one thing. without me in the world and the universe, the world and the universe as i see it would cease to be. MEANING I am the god of my own universe. and i must find people to believe in me so i can continue the struggle of life love and the pursuit of happiness. " {to me this is another example of where the individual and the collective coincide, and must therefore coexist symbiotically} {getting deeper in the rabbit hole} 070810 ... x whats it to you? Everyone is symbolically connected to a story, a path, a coincidence. Everybody, does things without realising its effects on their environment and the people around them. Everybody is born into a situation they can't control therefore are a product of it. Everybody can be lucky or unlucky, wealth is not the only thing that controls that. Everybody can fall despirately in love. Everybody can keep a diary without knowing that someone is reading it ! But not Everybody can do something about it, how did you do that ? 070810 ... jane i have a feeling that's not the x i know. 070810 what's it to you? who go blather from