Coincidence?

..... heck naw, you know me & Revolutionary Eysqueen don't believe in those things, you should know that by now... Lately I have been getting things in my inbox, IM, or beating on my ear-bass-drum that have been either inspirational or right on point with what I am feeling. An example:

From Cubicle Crusaders: IM Revolutionaries (Naturally Alise and Tiha)

My cartoon of the day this morning was the one above. Just yesterday I was lamenting my feelings of being out of sorts because I do not have that day job I was so used to. That cartoon reminded me of the vicious cycle that place had perpetuated. I need to get it through my head that the routine I was in was unhealthy and making me crazy, and I need to get over the routine change. I must remember it is what I wanted. I put my wish to leave there out in the universe and guess what? ....the universe called my bluff. So where do I go from here? ...not exactly sure yet (but not exactly unsure either), but I have a support system that is strong and they are helping me along the way (yeah Tiha, you are part of that system :) ... ) I just thought of a "poem-esque" something:

So time for me
... to abandon the vicious cycles
.....and running in circles...
I am gonna run ....
in some new shapes,
ellipses,
rhombuses*....
no. fuck that.
I am multidimensional
I'll run, walk, and glide in 3D,
run in dodecahedron
excel in this sphere....
yup.
no more running in circles
...that always ends in a cube....

*I love that word...

Red Flags and Relationships

*PSA from Naturally Alise: Red flags even pop up in what seems like paradise, so we don't pay attention, but sometimes you have to grab the white flag and cut somebody your losses.*

Often in a group of friends we sit around and listen to everyone’s progress report of their dating lives. We share our experiences in an effort to get a cosign on our asinine behaviors. Every so often someone will tell a story riddled with red flags. The friends start to make mental bets as to how long the dating/relationship will last, and once the storyteller is gone, they start to anti up. As outsiders looking in, of course we can spot a red flag a mile away, its not so easy when you’re in the thick of it, but its not impossible either. Your friends may warn you, may point out the red flags to you, and you probably wont listen, I mean a big part of living is making mistakes right? (sarcasm)
Anywho, to bring this theme back to the cube, when we see things on the job with our employer that are kind of suspect, what do we do? Can we just walk away from the job red flag warnings? Can we work with the red flags, as we do with doomed-from-the-start-relationships, in hopes that things will change, just for us? Do we allow our friends to pass the pot, ante up, on the length of time for a doomed job, and then take that pot to finance our unemployment?

Random Thursdays Continues: Isis from Top Model

This season on top model they had their first transgender contestant. I was really rooting for this girl, I thought she was pretty and she was well read on what it takes to be a model. Her downfall? She ended up trying so hard to fit in that she faded out into the background. What made her so special to begin with, the reason Top Model called her was that she stood out in the crowd. She had that thing that grabbed your attention and held it. Isis was by no means your average girl, and that made her special.Moral alert: be who you are, no matter what others think you should be. What makes us special makes us shine, and its our shine that gives us purpose and meaning in this life. Yeah, Isis was in a cube, just like the rest of us, but hopefully she’ll break free and be who she was meant to be, just like the rest of us.