morning pages

... these words, i can say, yes, i am just like everyone else...i am imperfect. but still, EVEN STILL, deep down i'm not convinced. i hold on, hold out, continuing to lie/rationalize/intellectualize that i am perfect. this isn't something that can be reversed through cognitive acceptance. my brother, or any other judge-like presence in my life, can point out again and again my shortcomings and even ...

Observation vs. Experience and Getting to Know a Cabbage Roll

... the family. When someone's on the ground trying to light the faulty water heater pilot for the hundredth time, that's work. But sarcasm isn't where I want to go. I've seen people intellectualize people's needs, people who have never experienced poverty championing those who need help. And I'm grateful for the voice they can give, for the compassion they extend, but they don't know the details, ...

falling in love could be the worst thing.

... with me so that their lives can be awesome too. 2. My health is very touch and go. I live a healthy lifestyle, except for the drinking, but when I get sick, I get -really- sick. 1. I intellectualize everything. I trace patterns of logic (even when it's faulty), and I analyze people's motivations and agendas. It doesn't make me feel smart and it doesn't really put me one step ahead, but sometimes ...

sizzling

... when I did ... 47. Michael Jackson's This Is It , 2009 ... but instead I think I'll just link to the FourFour review (spoiler warning, obviously). I like that he writes that "there is little to intellectualize here"; it makes me feel less dumb for so far not having anything to say about the movie that isn't a variant on "omg I loved that part!" x) I already kinda hate working at a movie ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. So this is a nine-billion word post, basically.

... questions, and who is obviously not the best socially, and probably has one or two musicals that she is batshit about, and is also probably smart and, judging by the questions she did get to ask, tries to intellectualize acting and make it about knowing all the right tricks because she hasn't learned how to feel things yet. (Hi. I used to be that girl. I still kind of am that girl. Hi.) I ...

...tug and pull at me with biceps of obligation, triceps of duty and shoulders weighed with responsibility.. The battle between light and dark is always prevalent.. the mind can know something, intellectualize it and become arrogant in that knowledge without ever living or practicing it. Fascinating, its power.. The more i become in touch with the conscious switch, the harder justification seems.....

in which it is documented for posterity that i over-intellectualize EVERYTHING

(not to mention how I use and abuse parentheses.) 1. (randomness that has nothing to do with the rest of this entry:) I am a member of the Robbie Williams mailing list, if my inbox this morning was to be believed. This leads me to think that I must be a: a sleep-internet-surfer or b: an alcoholic, as I’m not sure I could even name a Robbie Williams song if I tried. (Apparently, he is giving ...

...but I know why already. I can ask "how could this happen to him/her/me/them?!" I can ask "what circumstances caused this suffering?" (and that's a particularly good one if one is going to intellectualize about it at all. The why is always the same for suffering. Maybe that is another absolute! The why of suffering. That seems to be such a big deal for philosophers and regular people alike. WHY IS ...

Fic: Rule 11 (NC17)

... because she immediately took hold of his cock again, and gave it a hungry look.   Dean loved to eat girls out. It was a ritual for him, a deep pleasure that he didn't understand and didn't try to intellectualize. He'd never had a chance at Alison before and might never get another one. Now was the time. The time was now. He needed to get his arms round her waist first, and sat up to do so. His ...

David Foster Wallace on Life and Work

...default-setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. Paying attention to what's going on inside me....