"Who are you?"

"No one of consequence."

"I must know . . ."

"Get used to disappointment." 

--"The Princess Bride"

"The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm."  --Pipin, "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"

Strangely, I feel this way sometimes--close to danger, yet far from harm.

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat. So people who don't know what they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." --You've Got Mail

At this moment, I'd love to have a cup of coffe and an absolutely defining sence of self.

This post is for Brian so that he can leave me a comment   Hopefully, I'll get around to writing more later.  Of course, I'm already behind in my other online journal so the prospects of keeping up with two don't look good.