On a personal basis, there is the church I recently left. At work, my boss and a coworker are moving on to other positions, and recently, my son graduated from high school and went to college while my wife graduated college and is now teaching high school. All of these involve cutting oneself off from one group of people and attaching oneself to another.

In some of these cases, it is a natural progression: a graduation or a job advancement. In others, there was a dispute that precipitated the leaving. In both cases, though, there are similar emotions, I think.

In those cases where a decision is involved, it is often agonizing. You are looking at your options and trying to make it all work out for the best. You are torn between what you see as your best interest and the best interest of the organization you're leaving, and maybe the interest of the one you're joining.

As for the people, on the one hand, there are those you are leaving behind- the people you'll miss. The ones you wish you could take with you. The ones you feel you're rejecting. Also, there are those who you most definitely will not miss (often, the ones who caused the break with the old organization).

On the other hand, there is this new beginning- new friends to be made, a chance to portray yourself differently and maybe reinvent yourself. And new problems and challenges, too, no doubt.

It's a weird mix of grieving and Christmas. It's painful to leave any favorable portion of your life behind and strike out in new territory, but exciting, too.

Do you think this is a natural part of human existence? Do repeated transitions wear us out and make us older, or does the change keep us young?

And do you ever notice that short-timers often exhibit sides of their personalities not previously seen?

Which, I guess, brings us back the video, which was via. (The "pussy shot", by the way, is just a brief view of his cat, you pervs. Get your minds out of the gutter!)

And yes, this is the post I was referring to yesterday that I said I wouldn't post. But that was before I found the video. Even if the post is lame, the video is worth it.

Heh. My total psychology is pretty much "short-timer". Always. For real.

(also, doohickie, do you kiss your mom with that mouth? "You pervs"? Come on... Just fess up that you are a stinkin' perv, and come clean with the patented Jonmc 12-step Program^TM, after which you can say "pussy" as much as you like without accusing me of perviness in order to softstep your stinkin' pervy short-timer pottymouth.)

I'm as perv as the next guy. You got a problem with that?

I have to say I was all: "Bad language, noted. Example: Doohickie." Shocked I say! Shocked. Didn't watch vid. Sorry.

On post-view: heh. Hold on, someone wants some money.

Ok. Paid.
Thanks for waiting!

???

money? I'm someone! I'll take money!

Also, doohickie... I was kinda joking, and kinda not. You got a problem with that?

i lurvs me some pussy.

I was joking all the way, taz. Sorry I brought it up now, though....

And some pussy loves you, too, q. Don't stop trying!

Lately I've been noticing that they don't bleep out the work "pussy" on South Park. Granted, it's on at 11.00 PM, but does anyone else think that's weird? I mean, I don't mind, but they can say "pussy" but not "shit"?

I think the list of officially banned words in the Land of the Free is only like 7 long, and I don't think pussy is on the list.

Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, ... I don't know the rest.

I think piss is on there, because there is at least one word that I don't ever consider a curse word. Bitch and ass are now officially allowed, for the last several years.

I'm sure the Ministry of Public Decency could straighten it out.

fergit it, Doohickie; roll over - Im'a kick yer ass.

okay, not really... you're too far away, and I'm wearing bedroom slippers... but, otherwise!

I see that Staples guy has read the "How to dispose of a body" AskMe thread.

taz: are they *fuzzy* slippers?!? ;- )

(damn... derailing my own damn thread!)

Perv! okay, they're not fuzzy, but they are incredibly purple, in a singularly purplish way that has been much admired and coveted by others.

Purple!?! What do you take me for?

Talk about cathartic. And yeah, a wee shock there seeing Doohickie write "pussy". Sneaky bastard.

PUSSY!

and this time, I mean it the *other* way!