wisdom

a wise (and angry) friend looked at me once and said : "people who do not know where they are should not give directions"

along that note i venture out to say: "people who have nothing to say should say exactly that, nothing"

i was stressing about a presentation i had to give about a disease to people who not only had discovered the disease, but had probably nursed and named it too. so i was chewing it in my brain while scouring tons of pages of articles from sources whose breathing i could hear in the office next door (you know you're in trouble when you can point to your sources instead of list them on a slide) when Dr V struts in with her pointed staccatto walk and plops on the chair behind me

me: (sigh, expecting sympathy) i'm stressed abt this talk tomorrow
V: (pause pause, with each pausing moment i wait for the -you'll do just fine- phrase-just utter it once for the love of god, but oh no. i get a)
"well. your talk should be informative and educational"

i sooo wanted to say "just like your advice" but didn't.
hmmph.