O.K., yeah, the habitat smells like crap, and the situation really sucks.
William Nash, the Marine Corps's director of psychological health, told me that such symptoms appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders "as pathologized, distorted, inappropriate responses, and that's crap in a situation like this.
Recently, I got downsized at work, and then I had to listen to my so-called friends give me their "rational" assessments of the situation — the crap about my failure to meet quarterly departmental goals, my responsibility for the mold-spore contamination in the office refrigerator, the unfortunate incident with the color copier.
Ice cream bought me the time I needed to go home, google the crap out of the situation and then figure out our next step.
The knowledge that, however crap your current material situation, however hard on your luck or love you are, something warm is waiting for you and you will never truly be alone.
When you put effort into your appearance, you are less likely to hide from mirrors, eat nothing but crap and withdraw from social situations.
That means cutting through the enveloping shroud of jargon, euphemisms and double talk -- "crap," if you will -- that keeps us from seeing the situation as it really is.
But a lot of people and situations seriously piss me off, or annoy the living crap out of me.
Seeing as how crazy and scattered entrepreneurs have beaten the crap out of monoliths over the last 44 years in almost every field, I don't like the situation.
