Live and learn

It's been a busy couple of weeks in shorttina-land. A quick synopsis of things I've learned:

1. I left the fine arts field not because I can't cut it, but because I can't stomach the level of pretension that infects every person, no matter how smart or lovely, involved in the scene.

2. Giving up something for Lent is supposed to make you a better person, and complaining incessantly about it to everyone around you neither makes you a better person nor reduces the sum of suffering in the world. If anything, it adds fractions of annoyance to it, so you're doing more harm than good. And that's why I don't give things up for Lent or talk about doing so.

3. Men are bigger gossips than women. I'll bet I get 85% of office gossip from two of my male colleagues. They're also skilled at stalking and unashamed to admit their sneakiness, whereas women will apologize and make up excuses.