…… …… wait for it …… ……

Now that that’s done I can move on to building a secondary education system as I think it should be designed and supporting and/or building effective NGO’s to spread education and opportunity around the world.

But first I had to get ‘concision’ down.

To speak to your quandary though, tanglethis, while I’ve, like most, had many a professor and course pontificate the virtues of having short term and long term goals and aspirations, such people who are blessed enough to actually have such solid long term ‘career goals’ are rare. Even those of us who know what we want to do, more often than not, find a very circuitous path to that object, should we even reach it in the form we envisioned it.

I’m lucky enough that I know my ultimate goals and what I think I’d most enjoy as a livelihood, but it’s becoming just such an indirect path. Fortunately, the indirect route tends to lend itself to a greater array of skills and experience methinks.

P.S. I love your water over a flat surface metaphor, boy if I don’t feel that way often! …particularly with time and obligations. The time to spend going into depth in just about anything seems most often to surrender to the necessity of simply accomplishing all the ‘must does’ of the moment.

I feel like the phrase “soup to nuts” should always be used in a sentence with “gank.”

Twilight’s tableaux are mostly pretty standard sexual iconography too: white arms red apple (purity! temptation!), white flower red streaks (purity! stained!), etc. I do think the chess set on Breaking Dawn is kind of clever, in that it keeps the visually striking color scheme but doesn’t rely so heavily on the sex/purity images. (Maybe because they’re MARRIED by then. LoL.)

It’s fun to think of alternatives, though… I mean, focus on the mouth makes sense since teeth are sort of the defining element of vampires. But how to make that not cheesy? Would it change everything to focus on a male mouth? Different colors? Focusing on the weird eyes instead? I don’t know.

I can think of so many better ways to sell sex with vampires. It’s like when I used to sit in 215 and figure out how to make ads better. Remember when I wanted to be in advertising?

I think using 2 people would help! Vampire and Mortal, Vampire and Vampire, etc.

I guess it can be kind of daunting to avoid all of the tableaus that Twilight has been using.

LoL.

Ecentipede – not sure. I like to call them diptychs or triptychs when I do 2 or 3, but 4! That’s just excessive! : )
Don’t worry. Your choices are never removed. Limited, yes, by forces beyond your control. But if you do not find something pleasant, at least you will find something new!

Kyoske, kind of the same thing. A lot of my friends are reaching a crisis point where they are about to complete their long-term, expensive schooling… and will be ejected into a market that has pared itself down to less than essentials. Eternal optimist that I am, I just hope everyone finds work they like even if it isn’t making the most of their expertise… for now. And I hope that future employers in your field won’t blink if many of you list work experience outside of your field – after all, everyone knows that barely anyone’s hiring, doesn’t it speak for good character if you find satisfying work to tide you over?