> > > Ah. I feel that way about it too. Even though things are a bit under the weather lately, this morning I read Sam's lucid response to the "fun things to psychoanalyze" thread and was enormously cheered up. This is what I love about Sam: that he cares, and he shows it. In my mind's eye, I have an image of Sam, sometimes skating and navigating a treacherously icy lake. But he does so with balance and verve... in his wake I can see grace, edged in a thin blue line.
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> > As much as this thread is pleasing to my self-serving ego, this is getting just a little bit embarrassing. Grace, edged in a thin blue line? Beautiful prose, I must say, but....
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> Sheesh. NOW you're complaining about the way my mind works? You think I can turn off my heartfelt emotional output like that, snap, on a dime?! Feh. Some people are just SO inconsiderate. I think I will alter my entry for this "Sam" person on the Stuff-A-Minute condensed parody so that it shows up Sam for the ruthless coward he is.
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> ;-)

Erm.

I think I liked the embarrassment better. Carry on.