bedroom the handyman carolyn see bathroom smoke and mirrors neil gaiman car/walk the stillest day josephine hart
office up r.e.m. car breakheart hill [book-on-tape] thomas h cook living room the sci fi channel
brand x the message came from out of the blue: Brand X welcomes you into its clutches.
1999 april 30
talent show
i am searching for my savantness.
i am frustrated by my talent. or lack thereof. i mean i know i have some talents, but the problem is i have just enough talent in just enough areas as to make it painfully obvious i am rather good at a number of things and not spectacularly good at any one thing. that little glimmer of talent makes me absolutely crazy. i can paint a decent picture but i'll never hang in a museum. i can write a good poem, a coherent essay, an amusing anecdote, but i will never have a publishing contract. i can cook a tasty enough dinner and bake a delicious enough dessert that my friends give me hugs and kisses and flowers, but i am never going to get 5 michelin stars for my kitchen. i can take a good photograph but i am never going to have a career as a photojournalist or a fashion photographer or an art photographer; my vacation scrapbooks, however, are much nicer than most of my friends'.
i think we all know i have quite the handle on the idiotness.
what it should say on my next evaluation: left to her own devices, with no supervision, claire has developed problems staying focused and producing any results. however, it must be noted she has never missed a deadline and has still found time to become a spider solitaire whiz.
good, but not great, claire
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