From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #91 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Friday, April 2 1999 Volume 02 : Number 091 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: a lesson from the strangest place [winters ] ET: NJC:Magic Mountain Gathering :) [Jason Vierling Subject: ET: a lesson from the strangest place it has become a ritual for my friend and i to spend most of our nights at denny's. we sit in the same booth in the smoking section with cups of coffee, scattered empty packets of creams & sugar, and the same type of pie each time. she smokes one cigerette after another while talking in between inhales about the love of her life. sex is usualy what the conversation surrounds, that and graduation. there are these 5 guys who go their every night as well. they are older, in their 30's, all divorced and looking at life at a cynical point of view. one of the men looks just like john denver and spends a great deal of time now for the past few months talking to us, joking around and flirting. he's a hopeless romantic that can't get anything right in his life. these guys are the type of redneck backwood florida men who i normaly don't even say hi to. but at denny's we are all best friends, with a common bond: an addiction for coffee. so we are all sitting there, talking about life. we normaly spend our time talking about pointless things. when in middle of nowhere the john denver look alike said to me: kat, why do you take everything so hard on yourself? why cant you breathe? i didn't know the answer. i never really realized just how bad i am at this. i have dated a string of gay men which made me rather insecure. "john" understands how this hurts me, but he also reminded me: you are cute. your young. you have a great sense of humor. and you are pretty. give it time. they all aren't gay. maybe it was the flashing flourcent lights, the coffee or the second hand smoke, but i saw some truth in what he said for once. i've been batteling insecurities for the past few years, actualy ever sense adolecents. i have horrible luck with men. "john" helps me see the truth, not to take everything personaly. he even told me that in some ways it's good that i don't have the one right next to me right now, because then i wouldn't be in that diner with them, spending my weekends looking at life from a purely unique perspective. this is what i'm trying to point out: we are all beautiful. now and then someone comes around who reminds us of the truth. we all have good qualities. someone is out there right now missing each of us. someone is thinking of each person that reads this. someone honestly cares. we aren't alone. lately i have been saying that it's true: we are born alone and we die alone. that is still true. but in between that time we meet some incredible people. wheather a lover, a salesclerk, a best friend, a family member or a "john denver" we meet these people who somehow put things into perspective. who remind us how beautiful we are, how wanted we are by someone out there. that we aren't alone, we are all in this together. so please, don't be so hard on yourself. those harsh critical comments that people say aren't worth the tears. there's an angel in each of us, why allow others to take away our wings? kat ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:56:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Vierling Subject: ET: NJC:Magic Mountain Gathering :) Hi there everyone :) Heres some more deets (details... for the lingo impaired) on the Magic Mountain Gathering. Tickets thru my union can be purchased for (drum roll please...) only $18.50! These tickets are good until Dec 31 99 if not used on the day of our meet. Email me privately if this seems like the way to go for you and I will arrange for that. :) We have selected two meeting sites a main one and a fallback one. The first is the Bennigans off of the 91 on Harbor Blvd in Fullerton(turn north off of the 91 and it will be on your left fairly quickly). This was deemed as a fairly easy to find and centrally located site. Also it should be fairly safe to leave any cars behind there if we were to carpool. The second site is the Marie Callendars on The Old Rd nearly right at the foot of Magic Mountain Parkway. Get off the 5 headed toward Magic Mountain and turn right on The Old Road...Marie Callendars is almost immediately on the right. :) As for meeting times..I would like some discussion on that. Is it important to get there just as the park opens or do we mind arriving a little later? Lori suggested Ruby's(right near Bennigans) for breakfast and I just contacted Marie Callendars and they open at 7am and do serve breakfast (the only one I have heard of that does). Either of these options is open to us. I was leaning toward Marie Callendars as we would possibly pick up the remainder of our group there and the more the merrier! To esplain..no there is to much..I will sum up.. Magic Mountain Cost: $18.50 (if you contact me) Day: April 10th Meet up at a)Bennigans off the 91 on Harbor Blvd in Fullerton b)Marie Callendars on The Old Road right at the foot of Magic Mountain Meeting Times: To be discussed Ok folks...one more reminder..this is open to anyone EDA or not...so bring your friends,loved ones,fuzzy bears,little voices in your head, imaginary dates, and everyone else you can and come along! :) Take Care Angels, Jason V Arunsun on IRC & ICQ Arnsun on AOL IM _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? 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