PaulaC
{{{{{{{Pandemic Friending Policy}}}}}}}}You've likely seen one on Tribe before. I'm a quirky gal, extroverted but reserved with regard to who I 'friend'. If you and I know or have met one another in 'Real Life [tm]' and hit it off, or we have a long history of chatting often in thread on a mutual tribe and it is convivial, then I'd be cool with the 'friending', but I kinda like to limit my friends because I do actively read their Blogs, 'What I've Been Saying' modules, and the like. Otherwise, I'm not a stranger friend type.
Ubiquitous Stalker Stats
VouchingJanuary 12, 2008
An incredible person whom I love very much.
Paula is incredibly smart, funny, quick witted and caring person. Saying I'm happy to have met her is a gross understatement. She illuminates the lives of everyone around her. She's truly a very special person. November 15, 2007
HAGEN DAS!
TWO OF THEM! May 18, 2007
Paula is an amazing person. When I interact with her I find that I often learn something new, often about myself, often about other people, and typically about what community and openmindedness are about. She has a strong sense of what is right and wrong and I sense that she will stand her ground to make a point--just no puppy-eyes please! At the same time Paula seeks community with a very open mind, with a fortitude to take on issues that some may shy away from with an eye to resolving disputes. I'd consider picking her in first rounds if I were trying to put together a team.
April 4, 2007
I know I've written one before for Paula, but I feel she deserves another, unprompted and out of the blue.
Paula is a rare person. She endeavors with all she is to be a true friend, someone who is there to listen and offer advise or an opinion as needed. I have leaned on her in the past as I'm sure she has leaned on me, that is the mark of a true friend. Lately after going through some of my own crap, some of it my own doing, I have come to truely appreciate the time and effort she takes to listen to someone and care about how they are doing, even when it may frustrate her. Anyone who can consider Paula as their friend is truly honored. June 5, 2006
This is the new title of Paula's "what I've been talking about on Tribe" type module:
Blah Blah [big word] Blah [insight] blah Can I just say, Paula, that I love you <lol>? The addition of "[insight]" is golden. Know thyself, hell...*spoof* thyself. You rock : ). Thanks for being my BFF. March 24, 2006
Truly a kind, good person, except for her incessant need to torture young children. We try to look past that little foible.
Kidding aside, Paula is somebody worth knowing. She seems to be infinitely giving to her friends but can receive just as well. She has always offered me help if I tell her I'm struggling. This is from somebody I haven't known that long too. Oh yeah, she's smart and fun to talk to as well. That's always a good thing. Yay! January 14, 2006
Paulapalooza!
She of the geeky people. Fear her wrath, minions! She has her own cult. It's not the Kool-Aid kind, though. We all eat bacon. I respect her path. She's strong emotionally As well as in flesh. Not a trendy gal. She knows what she wants from life And works to get it. Laughs loudly and long. Puts her cards on the table. Also writes haiku. Who else do you know Who can write an ad like that? I am not that brave. November 5, 2005
The Paula is a very interesting and multi-faceted person. At first you think you have a concept of what she's like, but then you see another aspect of her and are intregued further. Her grasp of information is beyond amazing and lends to many a facinating and interesting conversation. At her core she is a caring and open person to those who are deserving of it. A truely amazing person to be in the presence of.
October 16, 2005
You know, Paula is so cool...you people should start making with the testimonial action here. I mean, hell-O, she has her own Cult...what, are the members too full of Koolaid to come out of the Tribe and glorify her name here?
Today, I had a horrible, terrible, awful, really crappy day. Paula just drove all the way over here to bring me lemon bars, and brownies, and pecan thingies, and Doctor McCoy and Spock, too, since I totally needed the Logical/Medical combo plate of mojo to go with all of the sugar. How many people would think to do all of that? Paula rocks. July 24, 2005
Love, love, *love* this woman. I've never been so like and so unlike someone in my whole life, and even with the push-me-pull-you bits, knowing her for the past 9-ish years has been one of the most amazing, enlightening, profound, and just downright fun experiences I have ever had. Paula can be scrappy, she can fix a motorcycle, she can play some mean pool, and she looks damned good in one of those generic white tank tops with the politically incorrect colloquial nickname. She can also pick the perfect glassware for an afternoon luncheon, find the one exquisite peach in an entire bushel, and can tie up a gloriously intricate gift with absolutely no tape (do you know how hard that is?!!). It's useless to attempt to distill such a long friendship into a paragraph, but I will say that I am always stoked that Paula is my RL pal, because spending time with her has been such a gift to me. She's the coolest...well, besides me, but this isn't about me ;).
I have too many interests
Friends I've Never Met
People I can confirm are corporial
Favorite Onion Articles |
Quotage: Clinging and Emptyness
"Emptyness is not something sacred in which to believe. It is an emptying: a letting go of the fixations and compulsions that lock one into a tight cell of self that seems to exist in detached isolation from the turbulent flux of life. This emptying leads to a falling away of constrictive and obstructive habits of mind that - as in removing a barrier across a river - allows the dammed up torrent of life to flow freely.
Thoughts that give me pause.
"luctor et emergo"
Thinkety think think
Memories
Logophilia
I love words, I find them to be fantastic ways of understanding culture and history, but it's also just fun to discover esoterica. For example; did you know that Catholic originally meant 'liberal' or 'Universal'?[^1] Or that man is simply a root of person and that in Old English one was either a waepmann (male) or weifmann (female)?[^2] The origin is associated with a Sanskrit word of Manu which is also associated with the Indo-European word Mind.
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