dilbert is Buddhist?

picked up a paper this weekend to get the classifieds. as usual, the only section i actually read (other than the ads) are the comics. the ‘dilbert’ strip is one i usually avoid for its cutting, often sarcastic jibes, but today’s read included even this one and the reward was this gem in the final panel:

10-22-06, pm

well. whew. glad that’s done. ladies, don’t let anyone fool you, 40+ hormones are hell. i’m terrified of menopause. in the good news department, i’m not a hipster. (whatever that is.) linking through the livejournals of my friend, P, i run into several of the kids i used to run ‘chat mom’ for at the old INDEX BBS system. they’re all grown up. wowsah. but one of them had this link to this quiz. so ok, i took it. and it tells me i’m not a hipster. hurray.

10-22-06, later am

quoting me to myself, i’d laugh, but i’m too busy crying: “to see it all and realize this and know it is a choice freely made in every moment.” speaking of choices, specifically, the choice to suffer. i need to remember this and pull it more deeply into me. i need to understand fully why i choose to suffer for him, for the other four, and i need to find a way to choose differently. i do not know how to do so in this moment. so instead, i note this to myself, an underscore of sorts. remember this. speak […]

10-22-06, early am

finally having slept, as usual, i wake in the early hours and am restless. one book of the ‘Crown of Stars’ series is read. i really should use the library instead of the bookstore. the rate at which i devour books is … well, many things, really, but it makes their purchase rather unreasonable, i think.