Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme
I say, and you think…
Flannery O’Connor wrote your book. Not much escapes
your notice.
Which Author’s Fiction are You?
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American writer 1925-1964 (died the year I was born)
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business.”
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
“While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
“… good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
(Thanks Grateful Bear)
| You scored as Silent All These Years. You are SILENT ALL THESE YEARS
You’ve suffered quietly your entire life and something inside you has been dying slowly. For years, you’ve carried a tremendous burden on your shoulders without anyone to bear it with you. You feel as if no one cares and you believe you and your opinions are worthless. (wow, that’s a tad harsh!)
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Which of Tori Amos's "Girls" Are You?
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I’m a Cornflake Girl!
I’m one of the most popular Tori Amos songs ever!
Actually, the lyric is “never was a cornflake girl, thought that was a good solution.”
I’m Time: Guiding Comforting and Sad.
“Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon”
If you were in the perfect career, it would be something like nursing or counselling. You have an innate desire to help people, and often try to give advice. You’re also inclined to ease people’s suffering as best you can, although sometimes, all you can do is listen. The world is a painful sight to you, and you often wonder how we can do such horrible things to each other. You may be an activist, working to right injustices. You believe very strongly in the healing power of love, and treasure every minute, because you are well aware of how quickly our lives are over.
“It’s time time time that you love….”
Which Strange Little Girl would you be?
This quiz made while Angel was procrastinating.
Which Tori Amos B-Side are you?
You are Take to the Sky
A Little Earthquakes B-Side, you are string-willed, and refuse to conform to anyone’s wishes except your own. In the past, you’ve often tried to please everyone around you, only to compromise your own integrity in the process. Finally, you are being strong, and holding to your own convictions.
“Here I stand with this Sword in my Hand”
| Which Tori Amos song are you?
Precious Things School. Religion. Sex. All disappointments. Let them bleed.
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From the Choirgirl Hotel
Congratulations, you’re From the Chiorgirl Hotel! Not just your average bad girl/guy, you’re mysterious and expressive. Like Tori, you’ve found a way to dance with sorrow and communicate your ideas through art. Just remember that light and dark are the key to balance!
You scored as Sleeping Beauty. Your alter ego is Princess Aurora, a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty! You are beautiful and enchanting, and as sweet as ever.
| Sleeping Beauty | 94% | |
| Goofy | 69% | |
| The Beast | 69% | |
| Cinderella | 69% | |
| Cruella De Ville | 63% | |
| Peter Pan | 63% | |
| Donald Duck | 56% | |
| Pinocchio | 50% | |
| Snow White | 38% | |
| Ariel | 31% |
Which Disney Character is your Alter Ego?
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I was acually hoping for Maleficent – Cruella de Ville is close, I guess. Sleeping Beauty, yeah, ok. Goofy is just odd. I like that I’m more like the Beast than like Cinderella, and more like Peter Pan than Donald Duck. But more like Pinocchio than Snow White? That’s a little disturbing- grin. Am I a little “wooden” – I certainly never wanted to be “a real boy.” Grin.
In the last two years, what was the scariest moment you recall? It’s a simple question, loaded with implications. I won’t contaminate the results by providing examples. Be as honest as your conscience (and readership) warrants.
Scariest moment? There have been a few. The most recent was the moment I discovered how many of my student loans had actually been accruing high interest (compounded quarterly), the entire time I was in graduate school. My actual loan debt is more than double what I borrowed (which was substantial enough). When I realized that my personal debt was more than the value of our home, and that I was already 40, and that no-one seemed to be hiring in my field, and that it was entirely likely that this debt will destroy the rest of my life, I was more scared than I had ever been before. I staggered around clutching at my heart. I had panic attacks. I had hysterical crying jags. I discussed divorce with my husband. I wrote terrible poetry.
Then I got extremely extremely angry. I don’t like to be frightened, and I don’t think this situation is fair at all. Even if I declare bankruptcy, none of the debt can be discharged. The Department of Education has told me that since Bush took office, there has not been one case nationally in which a bankruptcy judge has done so. I can only claim financial hardship for a couple of years, and the interest accrues (again, compounded quarterly) at about $1000 a month. If I don’t pay at least that much monthly, the balance goes up not down. If I am unable to pay and go into default, they will immediately add 25% to the total amount, and then come after me. They will garnish wages, report to the credit bureaus, and all sorts of other nasties – and I’m pretty sure that at some point in my life, I will be experiencing all of this. At this moment, I won’t go to debter’s prison, and when I die, they won’t go after my son – but if this adminstration goes the way it seems to be going, I don’t think I’ll even be able to count on that.
The fact is that even with tax debt and child support, you have some way to file a grievance or to settle. With student loan debt, you’re just up the creek. One consolidation loan I made in 1991 can’t even be refinanced. The original lender doesn’t exist anymore, and the loan was sold years ago – it wasn’t even listed in the national database. This loan will remain at 9% interest even if I bring it in to my other consolidated loans. So, the rest of my debt, which I refinanced at 3.5% would then do up to about 6%. I tried to get it reconsolidated under the government Direct Loan program, which would have shaved less than a point off the interest, but my lender refused to send the information. They said that they weren’t required to by law, and so they chose not to. After several conversations, they sold my loan to someone else.
The rest of my loans have been refinanced, but the truth of the matter is that I don’t currently take home anything close to the minimum payment. Even if I was able to paid everything on time, I would be paying on this debt until I was in my early 70s. How many people out there could make a payment of $1600/month on top of your other bills?
I came from a working-class/middle class background (depending on the year and my mother’s marital partner). My parents were unable/unwilling (not sure of the combination) to finance my college education. The only reason I was able to go to college at all was because of my high SAT scores. I succeeded in finishing – finally – and now I’m a bone fide PhD, but it appears (at this point at least) that my PhD won’t be enough to pay for my PhD. I’m thinking about attending a weekend “get your MBA” program. Jeez – I might as well just give up and become a realtor. After all these years of hard work and sacrifice, it sure is a slap in the face.
(thanks Etherealfire!)
