Comments on: My Half-Forgotten Life http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/ Love, Laughter, and Madness Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kristina http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3998 Kristina Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:36:09 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3998 Since Charlie was born (and really since he was <i>in utero</i>), I have kept a journal about the day's minutiae. I don't know if I shall ever have time to read it! But occasionally I read a page, and remember. Since Charlie was born (and really since he was in utero), I have kept a journal about the day’s minutiae.

I don’t know if I shall ever have time to read it!

But occasionally I read a page, and remember.

]]> By: ruth http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3993 ruth Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:44:15 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3993 i'm sure clinton had a lot of help remembering. there must have been hundreds of journalists who've done the legwork trying to dig everything about such an important person! still, what a full life, indeed! i’m sure clinton had a lot of help remembering. there must have been hundreds of journalists who’ve done the legwork trying to dig everything about such an important person!

still, what a full life, indeed!

]]> By: Cottontimer http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3992 Cottontimer Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:58:56 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3992 <b>echomyst</b>: Just last weekend while we were at the aquarium, a group of three friends were walking ahead of us on the sidewalk. One of the girls asked the others to wait so she could take a pic and the guy said really exasperatedly, "For f*ck's sake! Enough with the pictures already!" hahaa <b>river2sea72</b>: So you think you're better than me, is it? hehhe OK, then. You're all <i>above</i> average in my book! :D echomyst: Just last weekend while we were at the aquarium, a group of three friends were walking ahead of us on the sidewalk. One of the girls asked the others to wait so she could take a pic and the guy said really exasperatedly, “For f*ck’s sake! Enough with the pictures already!” hahaa

river2sea72: So you think you’re better than me, is it? hehhe OK, then. You’re all above average in my book! :D

]]> By: river2sea72 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3991 river2sea72 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:50:58 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3991 Who you callin' <i>average</i>? ;-) Who you callin’ average? ;-)

]]> By: echomyst http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3989 echomyst Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:45:10 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3989 Re: "What?s the point of living if I can?t remember it?" You enjoy it! We humans have a crazy fascination with recording everything down. Jason, for example, often teases me about Asian people and cameras... we should just bask in the moment, instead of being obsessed with capturing them. Re: “What?s the point of living if I can?t remember it?”

You enjoy it!

We humans have a crazy fascination with recording everything down. Jason, for example, often teases me about Asian people and cameras… we should just bask in the moment, instead of being obsessed with capturing them.

]]> By: Cottontimer http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3988 Cottontimer Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:44:18 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3988 <b>lkeele</b>: Me too. I'm so impressed at all he experienced and triumphed over. <b>river2sea72</b>: I didn't care for Katherin Graham's autobiography at all because it felt like endless namedropping. Hillary Clinton's book was more interesting because she talked about policy but her childhood was pretty conventional. Bill Clinton's is the best of the lot and even though it's long, it's interesting. I've also got Madeline Albright's memoir on my shelf. Don't know when I'll get around to that one! As for the people the Clintons associated with, I thought it was interesting that they weren't hobnobbing with the elite when they were students but the crowd they ran in clearly had superior qualities that enabled many of them to succeed. It's like my mother-in-law seems to know a lot of super-rich people. Me and the people I associate with are all pretty average. lkeele: Me too. I’m so impressed at all he experienced and triumphed over.

river2sea72: I didn’t care for Katherin Graham’s autobiography at all because it felt like endless namedropping. Hillary Clinton’s book was more interesting because she talked about policy but her childhood was pretty conventional. Bill Clinton’s is the best of the lot and even though it’s long, it’s interesting. I’ve also got Madeline Albright’s memoir on my shelf. Don’t know when I’ll get around to that one!

As for the people the Clintons associated with, I thought it was interesting that they weren’t hobnobbing with the elite when they were students but the crowd they ran in clearly had superior qualities that enabled many of them to succeed. It’s like my mother-in-law seems to know a lot of super-rich people. Me and the people I associate with are all pretty average.

]]> By: river2sea72 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3986 river2sea72 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:36:48 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3986 Bravo to you for taking on that book. I considered listening to it on tape after I had my lasik surgery, but it turned out the recovery was too fast :) I have read the first 1/2 - 3/4 or Hillary Clinton and Katherine Graham's autobiographies. I can never get farther than that because I start to lose track of all the associates and relationships, etc. The one big thing I learned from reading those books is a common aphorism for success: "It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know" and for the Clintons and Graham, this was absolutely true. Bravo to you for taking on that book. I considered listening to it on tape after I had my lasik surgery, but it turned out the recovery was too fast :) I have read the first 1/2 - 3/4 or Hillary Clinton and Katherine Graham’s autobiographies. I can never get farther than that because I start to lose track of all the associates and relationships, etc. The one big thing I learned from reading those books is a common aphorism for success: “It’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know” and for the Clintons and Graham, this was absolutely true.

]]> By: lkeele http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3985 lkeele Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:55:36 +0000 http://www.cottontimer.com/2006/07/30/my-half-forgotten-life/#comment-3985 I really enjoyed this book. I especially liked the first half -- his childhood, college years, early adulthood. Very interesting!! I really enjoyed this book. I especially liked the first half — his childhood, college years, early adulthood. Very interesting!!

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