Needs and wants.
Nov. 20th, 2009 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I need a new computer. My laptop and desktop are abominably slow, due to lower RAM than is industry standard. At least 75% lower, and that's only assuming a standard 1GB of RAM. In the case of the laptop, this means that trying to run more than one or two applications, Small applications, at a time, locks up the system in waves of competing protocols, for literal hours at a time. Yes. So. New computers.
I want a new car stereo. My CD player has ceased function, it has no tape deck, no auxilliary jack, I hate commercial radio, and NPR news isn't available 24/7. So, new car CD player.
I need a tune up and brake job, on my car. The Meineke place where I got my oil change quoted me ~$200, for the plugs and points job, plus whatever it cost for the front brakes. So, really, more like $350. As this car is the only car I'll have, for the foreseeable future, I should probably get this done, soon.
I want a paying job where I feel a sense of mutual respect between management, employees, and clients/customers, rather than lipservice paid to the idea of respect which is shown, time and again, to fail in actual practice. A place where the potential for and of interaction is nutured and feed, rather than patently ignored.
I need to get apply for and get into a fully funded Ph.D that I can stomach for the length of time it takes to turn it into something I can vaguely stand, and then get out. Apparently, I need the piece of paper, in order to even begin doing what I'm trying to do, or I need a great many more connections who are willing to help me, than are currently making themselves known.
I want powerful high-profile friends who are willing to put themselves on the line to support the things in which I believe. Sweeping educational reforms, new curriculum elements, political ethics, things like that.
I need to be a powerfully high-profile person, so that I can use my clout to support the things my friends care about.
I want more people to realise that, to paraphrse what Simon Peg said, a few days ago, celebrity is a consequence, and not an end.
I need to write, more.
A pure heart. A Peaceful Soul
"A bigger gun."
I want a new car stereo. My CD player has ceased function, it has no tape deck, no auxilliary jack, I hate commercial radio, and NPR news isn't available 24/7. So, new car CD player.
I need a tune up and brake job, on my car. The Meineke place where I got my oil change quoted me ~$200, for the plugs and points job, plus whatever it cost for the front brakes. So, really, more like $350. As this car is the only car I'll have, for the foreseeable future, I should probably get this done, soon.
I want a paying job where I feel a sense of mutual respect between management, employees, and clients/customers, rather than lipservice paid to the idea of respect which is shown, time and again, to fail in actual practice. A place where the potential for and of interaction is nutured and feed, rather than patently ignored.
I need to get apply for and get into a fully funded Ph.D that I can stomach for the length of time it takes to turn it into something I can vaguely stand, and then get out. Apparently, I need the piece of paper, in order to even begin doing what I'm trying to do, or I need a great many more connections who are willing to help me, than are currently making themselves known.
I want powerful high-profile friends who are willing to put themselves on the line to support the things in which I believe. Sweeping educational reforms, new curriculum elements, political ethics, things like that.
I need to be a powerfully high-profile person, so that I can use my clout to support the things my friends care about.
I want more people to realise that, to paraphrse what Simon Peg said, a few days ago, celebrity is a consequence, and not an end.
I need to write, more.
A pure heart. A Peaceful Soul
"A bigger gun."
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So tell us what you want
Date: 2009-11-20 01:50 pm (UTC)*ducks*
Re: So tell us what you want
Date: 2009-11-20 03:19 pm (UTC)Re: So tell us what you want
Date: 2009-11-20 04:03 pm (UTC)Re: So tell us what you want
Date: 2009-11-20 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: So tell us what you want
Date: 2009-11-20 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 02:10 pm (UTC)Always remember any argument can be solved with a high amount of explosives, or lots of bullets.
*throws cake*
does the stereo have to be a specific brand?
I will look and send you links on said stereo, check out wal mart they usually have decent stereos for decent prices, Ill help install said radio since paying to have it done is stupid in my book.
Computer? give me budget I will send you linkage, I got my new lap top for 500 and change. It doesnt hook up to a docking station, nor give me a blow job while I work, but is nice. Ive seen desk tops running 300 or less. specs and prices help...
also
*throws more cake*
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 03:09 pm (UTC)Also if money is the problem find someone you dont like and sell their kidneys
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 05:56 pm (UTC)No one wants to pursue further questioning when sword wounds are involved. Cos that means they have to seriously consider whether ninja still operate or not.
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Date: 2009-11-20 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 03:25 pm (UTC)Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 04:46 pm (UTC)Look, you want your PhD. This is good. It gives you credibility if you can get it. But after that, or even while working on that, you wonder how to make a living doing what you love. I feel your focus is too ... focussed?
Little acts and the shifting of local thoughts can have world altering consequences, yes? You're working at a coffee shop. You seem to enjoy the job if not the environment. You certainly appreciate caffeinated beverages and know many others who do as well.
Your academic focus is laudable, but perhaps your long term goals should lie in the realm of your current experience. Is there room for promotion into managerial positions? Do you think, with a few more years experience and some venture capital you could open and run your own shop? A place where conversations can be steered onto topics you prefer, papers and books you want read stock the shelves and magazine racks, Kirsten's art decorates the walls, and you have the power to invite guest speakers that you think should be Heard.
With the right neighborhood to make it popular initially (I'd think Lake Claire personally) it could eventually expand into areas that would have originally been less accepting of such oddity. Establish yourself as a small business owner; pillar of the community. Then explore ideas like local politics and education advocacy. It's an idea, maybe not a great one, but it's a concrete one. You deal in abstracts and want a way to translate them into tangible currency. Here's an option that you may not have considered that I think you would be good at. People like talking to you and hanging out where you're hanging out. Exploit that.
Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 06:37 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 07:12 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 07:29 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-21 12:47 am (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 11:53 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 05:54 pm (UTC)I think he's too busy watching
badTV shows to heed.Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 11:52 pm (UTC)Re: Perhaps tangental, but follow me here
Date: 2009-11-20 11:52 pm (UTC)And thought I definitely think that I could run a coffee shop, with ease and aplomb, it's not what I want to be doing, in the long run. I don't want to be making money at making coffee, for the rest of my life. It provides an interesting potential platform, but I see it in terms of... Well, I see it as the consequent to other, initial money-making plans.
The idea of the guest speakers is definitely an intriguing one, but I tend to see that more as a kaffee klatch ideal, inviting People into a space, making them feel welcome, rather than inserting Speakers into a space where people feel comfortable.
I focus on the consultancy-- and I realise, recently, that I think this, more than I say it-- because, ideally, it encompasses everything that I love about teaching, and professional collaboration, in one area. It allows me to work with people whose areas of expertise are not mine, but which overlap, and intersect in new ways. Together, we would get to steer the course of corporations and policies that affect the world, and help people to broaden their minds and approaches to the problems they face. We would learn new things, solve new problems, and help people to grow in whatever path they chose.
That's why I want to teach, and why I want to consult.
I can shift the focus of a community, with great effort, but it requires a community which is, at the outset, willing to be shifted. The lever necessary to shift a group's mental weight differs, vastly, and the shape of my ideas, methods, and goals is, when improperly apprehended, seriously off-putting.
What I'm ultimately saying is that a coffee shop of my own design and distribution would be a wonderful thing, but it would only be partially satisfying, for a number of reasons, and the reality of its operation and function is not outweighed, for me, by the ideal of its potential.
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Date: 2009-11-21 02:26 am (UTC)Are you working the evening of 11/30 (monday)? There's someone I'd like you to meet, and they have a weekly group meeting then.
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Date: 2009-11-21 04:02 am (UTC)