odetteroulette

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Currently wishing I didn't have to do any grading. Before that, graduate student and new mom. Now an actual Dr. of Something or Other and the Kid is two and some months. Before that, a Southern girl in the West. Now a Southern girl in the South, dreaming of being in the West. Before that, I can't remember. Still waiting for the flying car.

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MARCH 11, 2010 12:06AM

Things I'm Wondering If You Have Ever ...

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Do you ever wonder if the more paranoid people are right about 1) the moon landing 2) Area 51   3) fluoride in the water  4) chemtrails  5) every conspiracy ever? Do you ever have a suspicion that they might have a valid point?

 Do you ever, in your heart of hearts, wonder why you hang on to certain friends? You know the ones I'm talking about, right? The ones who constantly call you with their problems, but if you turn that table, they get all funny and sort of absent? Yet, still, you hang on to them! Do you wonder?

 Do you ever think maybe cats really do understand every word we're saying? 

Do you ever wonder if maybe money was a really super stupid idea and whoever thought it up needs the living shit beaten out of him or her? Do you ever laugh when someone who claims to be an atheist but is also some sort of hardcore economist  and you find that funny because you can't understand why he or she believes in one thing which is utterly imaginary on all levels but refuses the existence of any sort of god, saying it's an imaginary being? Do you ever get the urge to then pull a dollar out of your pocket, wave it in that person's face and say "No. Go on. Really."

On the other hand, do you ever feel like you're uncomfortable in church because you're clearly surrounded by hypocritical bigots?

Do you ever think that someday a ghost might appear in front of  you and make you shriek? 

Do you ever wonder if you would be any good in a true emergency situation, as in the past, when a smaller emergency arises, you've kind of just stood there, looking confused?

Do you ever wonder what would happen if you just woke up one morning and started telling every person exactly what you thought about him or her? Would you lose your job? Your significant other? Your family? Your friends? Do you ever wonder if people own dogs because you don't have to lie to them? 

Do you ever have the urge to tell someone to shut the fuck up (feel free to do that here)? 

Do you ever suddenly find yourself certain that the day was supposed to be sunny, when it is rainy, or rainy when it is sunny, and then, later in the day, it becomes that very thing?

Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves?

Do you ever wonder what would happen in a job interview if, to answer the question of what particularly makes you qualified for a job, you said, "Because I really need the money. I'm pretty sure more than the other people you're seeing. Because otherwise I would not work at all because most work is stupid busy work except for a few things"? 

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to make one whole day Opera Day where everyone sings his or her way through the day? 

Do you ever wonder why we sleep? 

Do you ever wonder why we dream?

Do you ever wonder why we have ten fingers and toes and not, say, fourteen each?

 What do you wonder? Do you ever wonder about that?

I do.

 

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Do you ever wonder if some people have a point in their writing? heh
I enjoyed your wonderings. This one was my fave:
Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves?

I don't really think I wonder about the same things you wonder about but I enjoyed them. hmmmm.... I wonder what I wonder about?
Yes to all, except for wondering about cats understanding everything that we are saying. I know they do. Rated.
I loved this. Especially this: "Do you ever wonder what would happen if you just woke up one morning and started telling every person exactly what you thought about him or her?" Nope. I basically stopped wondering what would happen if I did that. Instead, now I just tell them. Cleans out many of the people and associated problems on the rest of the list! ;)
I am laughing so hard ~
"No, really, go on."

Code for, "What a total douche."

I love your posts - but "sleep"? What's that? And when should we be doing it?
I wonder how I got into this. Must've been to rate it. No, that's why. How is lost. I wonder about my memory.
I didn't know where you were going. Thanks for the good dreams.
Wunnerfull, wunnerfull
Sometimes, yeah. I DO wonder ...
I especially wonder about those friends. Lost one of those a couple of years ago. For some reason, I hadn't noticed that she was acting a whole lot like folks I had quit hanging around with years earlier, and she had been acting like that all along.

Is there a point to my writing? Self-expression perhaps?

I don't wonder why we sleep. I wonder why I don't sleep more. Chuckle.

Wonder-ful.
"you ever laugh when someone who claims to be an atheist but is also some sort of hardcore economist and you find that funny because you can't understand why he or she believes in one thing which is utterly imaginary on all levels but refuses to the existence of any sort of god, saying it's an imaginary being? Do you ever get the urge to then pull a dollar out of your pocket, wave it in that person's face and say "No. Go on. Really."" Brilliant!
Every day Odette, every day you clever girl.
"Do you ever think maybe cats really do understand every word we're saying?"

Yes, yes we do, we just chose to ignore you!! ;)
I wonder about it all._r
Yes to many, particularly the comparison between religion and economics.
I wonder if I'll ever be able to take one step at a time and plan for the future simultaneously.
You have such a way of coming up with real stuff that we recognize immediately but would never think of. I don't wonder at all why I'm rating this bit of imagination.
I really do wonder about the cat thing... Claire seems to just understand... she's such an awesome cat.
I always wonder about dreams. It's like I went to the cinema but didn't pay much attention.
Do you ever laugh when someone who claims to be an atheist but is also some sort of hardcore economist (yes, Penn Jillette comes to mind.)
Do you ever have the urge to tell someone to shut the fuck up (every time I wake up and my husband has accidentally put the t.v. on fox news)
Do you ever wonder what would happen if we stopped worrying about making fools of ourselves? ( I have always wondered if I shouldn't care "more" what people think ;)
I love lists like this! Thank you~
Ah, Penn Jillette. What an arrogant tool he is, right? I hated their show because it often set up straw men to knock them down. Fallacies galore! I wish they'd just stayed magicians.
The comparison between atheists and economics is perfect and I always have wanted to tell that to an interviewer or maybe this " I want this job because I am too much of a snob to work at McDonald's and you pay more"
OK, I had to interrupt my reading right after your second paragraph. No to all those first questions, but a resounding YES to everything in the second paragraph. It makes me wonder about myself, ya know? I mean, after a while, this is no longer about those exploiters, this is about me. As in, "What the hell is wrong with me?"

OK, back to reading.
This was great, Odette. There's some overlap, for sure, but you *do* wonder some different stuff than me. Like the ghost thing? Nah. And like Cartouche, I tend not to have all those wonderings you do about being direct or not acting foolish. My issues stem from impulsivity, so I generally don't need to wonder about what happens when I say what I think or when I act the fool. It happens all the time. If you have some romantic notion that things would all be better, it's just not the case. There's a whole different set of problems attached to it. No magic bullet, alas.
I'm wondering how many other political boondoggles are out there causing our legislators to waste our tax dollars for political reasons.

I know from my decades of studying just one topic that fluoride and fluoridation are not reducing tooth decay, are costing cities multi-millions of dollars yearly and putting populations at unnecessary risk of fluoride's adverse health effects.

Does it really make sense to add fluoride into drinking water when it's not even a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth.

Yet with all the budget cuts going on, fluoridation is preserved - mainly because of the political power and financial clout of organized dentistry.

Do you really believe that organized dentistry would be spending so much political capital on fluoridation if it was truly going to put themselves out of business?

Instead cities are cutting out dental clinics which is vital since several Americans have died in recent years from the consequences of untreated tooth decay.
I rated this. I wonder why.
"On the other hand, do you ever feel like you're uncomfortable in church because you're clearly surrounded by hypocritical bigots?"

People in church are not necessarily the most spiritual people in the world - or loving but that does not prove that God does not exist. That just proves that some people are hateful hypocrites who should know that God is supposed to see and know their hearts and mind. What I find amusing about atheists is that they spend a lot of time hating and denouncing something they don't believe exists. Why would anyone waste so much time on nothing? or spend so much time in church when someone doesn't even follow the way of Jesus and practice God's love?

Sorry for more questions - Your questions were very thought provoking! Thanks! R
I wonder who wrote the book of love.

That's about it, though.

Oh, another one - I also wonder why it is we drive on parkways but park in driveways.

Oh, and what the hell is a peanut - pea or nut?

See that? Now you've got me wondering.....
I could answer only one question: Handling an extreme emergengy. Did it, and did it well, telling everyone around what to do. It was so immediate and natural...

On telling folks what you really think, you have to be willing to bear the consequences, especially if you are the type of person who is empathic, or able to easily read minds. Really old folks get away with this.
How people will react when you tell them what you really think depends totally on how you phrase it.
"Do you ever wonder if maybe money was a really super stupid idea and whoever thought it up needs the living shit beaten out of him or her?"

Change "money" for "Open Salon" and I'd agree. I spend more *$&@ time on here than I care to think about. I'm more addicted to OS than to coffee. Well, maybe not. But you get my point.
Every last one of them . . . yes. Yes I do wonder.
Cats do. They're just too cool to care.
how about: Do you ever wonder how you'd react if people started telling you what they really thought of you?

I think that one is the real killer!
My short answer is, yes. I wonder about these things. Maybe this should become sort of a bucket list. We can't do anything about 10 toes versus 14 toes, but next time the urge to tell someone, "Shut the fuck up," comes over me . . . well, I may just try it. I did fire a pseudo-friend a few years ago. Being around her was extremely dissatisfying; it left me wishing I hadn't just wasted two or three hours of my life listening to her being negative and cynical (and I can DO cynical, but this incessant barrage was too much even for me). I couldn't just sort of ease her out of my life; she didn't take the hint with unreturned phone calls and my lack of availability for coffee/lunch/dinner/whatever. So I fired her. It felt GOOD.
Yes, yes, YES - 'cept the Opera Day - trust me when I say no one wants to hear me sing. Not even the cats, who told me so.
Actually, my cat does understand everything I say and because of that, now she has learned how to spell.
I would love opera day. Would we all learn some arias, or just make things up in Italian-sounding gibberish? Would we sing "Is two o'clock Tuesday all right for you?" in Italian over our telephones? Of course here in Hong Kong, the clash of styles might be an issue, at least in workplaces like mine that have Western staff....
1. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
12. I actually did this once, in a fit of being myself. I got the job.
Nice wonderfully random musings. -r
I kind of DO believe in Area 51 and chemtrails...
and I figured out why I hang out with one atrocious friend...it's because she is just like my mother and so it's familiar, albeit a rerun. And hypocritical bigots are supposed to be in church, perfect people don't need to be. Church is for flawed humans making an attempt to be better.
Deborah--It would be tolerable if the hypocritical bigots admitted it, instead of believing themselves perfect and being all judging of others. I'm not looking for perfection myself, just the tiniest bit of tolerance and honesty combined. And I agree!! I think the reason I've kept friends like that around because they are extremely reminiscent of parental relationships.
Yes, my friend, I wonder.

I think money is an awful idea and creates such bad priorities for our society.

I am a conspiracy theorist even though I try not to be. Don't even start with that.

I find that there are more answers in stories than anywhere else. That's why I write.