believe it or not

an equally random photo for a random post

i am consistently amazed at people's need to tell their stories. seemingly especially if the stories are full of strife and sorrow and woe. they have a great desire for commiseration and in being confirmed in their sense of having been done wrong. it makes it easy to gather material for a book, but i have to say that it is making for a rather bleak story. but maybe there simply aren't any bright spots in the welfare state, even the lauded scandinavian kind.

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believe it or not, there are still people (in this otherwise very prosperous ostensibly western society) who don't have any education beyond primary school.

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it's election day in denmark today. the race is close, but it looks like after ten years of the blue guys, it will go over to the red. because denmark seems to have adopted those same colors as they use in the US elections. tho' the politicians are all well to the left of the american ones - blue or red. i don't get to vote, as i'm not a citizen, but i'm confident husband will vote correctly.

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believe it or not, there are people who don't know how to type.

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it's sometimes really, really hard to maintain anthropological distance. but absolutely essential for maintenance of sanity. (this is really a reminder to myself, so if you don't understand it, that's ok.)

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believe it or not, there are people who still have nokia phones.

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my drunk kitchen is totally cracking me up.

thank you bill.

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i'm feeling much better now. sometimes you just have to clear your head of all the little stuff.