from 'The Year of Living Biblically'
"I feel I have to clam up. It's the best way to battle the overwhelming urge to spew biblically banned negative language...The interesting thing is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place."
posted by melilotnfosco | 4:35 PM
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:)
(see what you've done to me with that '1984' post, mel? i can't find the right words, so i'm reduced to using only emoticons;)
No Chelley no!!! (see me too! I'm left with repeating two letter words!)
I totally find that too- the more I complain, the more I complain and vice versa. Thanks for reminding me!
believe me, i need the reminder, too
Hehehe I loved that book! Insightful and funny. He got a bit too distracted at the end though (with X and Y), to keep up the same amount of insightfulness for the New Testament. I'm purposely vague here in case of spoilers :-) But after I read it last year, I went to AJ Jacob's website and discovered he's on Facebook! Then I commented on his FB and asked to be his friend, which he accepted hahahhahaha. I'm "friends" with the author! You know, too, that part where he keeps checking Amazon.com or something to see how well his other book was doing? (I can spoil that part cuz it was in the beginning, i think) I sent him an invite on FB to add the iRead application, where he can see what people say about his books and how many people read them hahaha.... Ah, he's a good writer, and even though his humor/style has become a bit predictable, he's still funny.
he and hobsis have corresponded a couple times :)
that's true - i emailed him with some thoughts on "the know-it-all" and he responded (a real response, not a standard 'thank you for your comments' one). then he e-mailed me to tell me about "the year...". then, after i read "the year...", i mailed him some thoughts on that, but he hasn't replied yet.
and i really, really need to work on the clamming up thing. i'm getting better, but i still have so far to go...
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