I went ahead and posted the comments for my last Post about the Suicide Chronicles. What the hell.
Now, I am on a different computer and for some reason cannot comment today, so I figured the next best thing is just to do this quick post and incorporate what I wanted to say in my comment in response to the comments on my suicide stuff and the juggling etc.
Donna: Your blog is excellent, and I am going to put you on my blog list today, and as far as debtor's suicide goes, it has crossed my mind over the years as my SL debt grew and grew and grew.
Making up the poems or jingles is just my way of working out these thoughts, and I do not intend to kill myself over my Student Loan debt, but there have been times when I was deeply depressed over it all and well....
As for the long hair: Someone out there doesn't like it, and I would ask that that person give the same lecture to Ron Kuby. Also to Thomas Jefferson and Jesus.
In fact, Curtis Sliwa (A Conservative) once had a popular morning talk radio show with Kuby, and I would guess that Sliwa doesn't mind Kuby's long hair, or at least respects Kuby's right to wear it long.
For that matter Conservative Sean Hannity would probably agree, since Hannity is a friend of Sliwa. And moeover, Conservative Ann Coulter (sigh) would probably support my decision to wear my hair, like Fabio, a little longer.
Like Fabio, as I say, or like a guy on the cover of a Harlequin Romance Novel, who is passionately kissing the neck of a moaning Countess with her head thrown back and her long, auburn tresses wildly askew. In the backdrop of this steamy scene is a castle on a bluff, and a full moon, along with the tempestuous ocean waves in the surf or on the beach.....you know what I mean.
Now, as far as who is laughing at who, I will let everyone try and figure that out on their own. And once more, OWS is a real person, and a highly intelligent one.
And what else.....oh, I'm glad that the mean, mean commenter revealed himself to be a man, because I was starting to wonder if it was Ann Coulter commenting as Anon and putting old Johnny Painterguy down.
For I would be really crushed if that were so.
In fact, I have a copy of Slander and of Treason, along with Alexis De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America ( A fascinating book) and other books for my summer reading. I sometimes look up from one of Ann Coulter's books and ask myself: How can me Scottish Lass, with such big, beautiful, baby blue eyes, write such things?
But my new digs for the summer are really cool. Just me and Shane and my banjo and books in the secluded manse for the summer. There is a big back yard and Shane is having a blast playing frisbee.
Also, a reporter from the New York Post contacted me recently.
I greatly appreciate his interest in my blog, and in these interlinked blogs in general, and I would ask, or rather implore the Reporter to focus not just on un or underemployment for Law Grads, but also on the most important issue: Life and soul crushing runaway nondischargeable (in Bankruptcy) Student Loan Debt.
To that end, I recommend the Reporter speak with, in alphabetical order: Alan Collinge at studentloanjustice.org , Cryn Johannsen of Alleducationmatters.blogspot.com, and also to Nando of ThirdTierReality.blogspot.com.
What else: Oh, someone wants to know more about my ex-wife, but I'm sorry because I cannot add anything more than what I have aready written.
Of course, many factors went into our divorce, and my Student Loan Debt was only one factor.
But as I say, there is that clause in the Divorce Decree that says neither party shall malign the other, so I have to oblige. I still Love my ex-wife very much, and recently reached out to her children (my ex stepkids) in an effort to make amends, and indirectly to her as well. She could have another man by now. I don't know. But it is better she moves on with her life, just as it is for me to do so.
I only wish I could have some sort of resolution about my debt, because, frankly it has made me a bit nutty, and I feel like I am owned by some entity or, rather, like I am a piece of property.
And with that in mind, is this blog really a waste of time in that sense? I mean, If I have a price on my head that the taxpayer pays for, shouldn't I be sharing all of my personal business anyway, since the public in effect owns me, lock, stock and barrel?
It sounds crazy, but isn't that sort of true in a way?
Also, to the Reporter from the NY Post, please go here and read this most excellent blog, which I feel pretty well describes the Forest, as opposed to my "trees" if you will:
See youse all later. Next weekend maybe.
