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  • Step One: Grow UP

    [Read the article: I went to L.A. to work in film and just got yelled at]
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    Or at least, take a deep breath. This letter was all over the map. Crazy film people, the ever-popular need to express one's magnificent creativity, moving home, finding God and "giving in to the chemistry".

    If you can rub two thoughts together to make a coherent paragraph, that would help. With a lot of things. It would help with figuring out what you want from your life, what you want from your location, and what you want from tomorrow.

    Start with that. What do you want your day to look like tomorrow? Sunny or do you need rain? How many lovely people do you want to interact with? HINT: the more lovely your behavior, the greater the number of lovely people you are likely to encounter. HINT #2: "friends" who share gloom and doom pronouncements are rarely correct and rarely friends.

    What do you want life to look like a year from tomorrow? How will you prepare to get there? HINT #3: whatever you are doing tomorrow can lead you in that direction, if you want it to. At 24, you should EXPECT to be doing less than earth shatteringly important jobs, but building a resume in the process.

    And finally, what do you want to see, when you look back at your life, 50 years from tomorrow? When you have examined that question, then you can start planning a route to get there.

    Right now, you have a map of the world, but no destination, no stops along the way, just "I want to travel." You can either be a hobo, going wherever the train you hop on carries you, or you can research the places that you want to go, and order your tickets and reservations.

    Wednesday, June 11, 2008 07:46 AM

  • Pertussis Nearly Killed My Mom

    [Read the article: The K Chronicles]
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    When she was six. In fact, she remembered, till she died, hearing the doctor tell HER mother that she was "gone." Because she had stopped breathing, her heart had stopped beating, temporarily, or I wouldn't be typing this) after a horrible coughing bout.

    I worked with a woman who was vaccinated against rubella in her 20's. There was no vaccination when WE were children, and she hadn't caught it as a child. Turns out she DID catch it, not a strong enough case to build an adequate immunity, but one strong enough to cause the miscarriage of her very much wanted first pregnancy.

    So long as you are quite sure that Ms. Keef doesn't have any Hep B virus load, don't immunize your wonderful child now. But if the baby can possibly have caught it during childbirth, well, I would. Also, if you are quite sure that your little one will not, between now and when you DO decide to have them immunized (because you will, right, just not right away?) decide to pierce their ears with the same needle their friend has used, or that they found somewhere. Or opts for do it yourself or cheap tattoos, because their under 18 and you won't agree to sign for permission.

    Vaccines are developed for a reason, and it tends not to be so much about Big Pharma as about prevention of epidemics. Congratulations on your new little one. Take care of your baby. Immunize.

    Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:53 AM

  • Oops

    [Read the article: The K Chronicles]
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    That should be they're under 18, not their.

    I hate that mistake.

    Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:55 AM

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