Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

If anger maintained for too long a time without resolution results in a state of exhaustion, would an excessive level of gratitude be expected to create a feeling of rapacious  avidity? It only stands to reason, not that that has anything to do with today’s odd(er) TToT Post. Apropos only of having a little too much computer-enhanced-word-generation, Lizzi and Them invite you to join this here Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Your work will be graded. (no, not really) ((well, I have to back up my assertion of being rapaciously avid, don’t I?)) (((well, actually, I don’t! and not just because the term, ‘rapacious avidity’ is morphing into a visual that includes pirates, school marms and being kept after class.))) oh well, if this is your first stop, and are relatively new to the TToT, I might suggest going over to ‘the Coop‘ or ‘un-Charted‘ might make for a better mood establisher, ya know?

1) the technology of the current day that allows events like last night’s vidchat.

2) the internets in general, for enabling the creation of ‘the Biggest High School Cafeteria (Last Lunch on a Friday, not to put too fine a point on it) in all of History’, not just the social environment that we all experienced, but, in a marked improvement over the original, the Biggest High School Cafeteria with a Shifting Time Zone (which allows, as did the original, a time of fluid social structure… i.e. cool kids at a sub-critical density, tough kids at a variable demand time and so on and so forth…. you remember, that one day, after class, you and a friend talked to a Teacher and they (the Teacher) talked like they were regular people.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine for being both an enabler and a dependent-of-the-most-trying-type,-like-that-friend-that-you-know-doesn’t-need-to-act-so-….-but-they-don’t-listen-except-that-one-time-that-only-makes-you-all-the-more-frustrate-because-its’-clear-they-know-better

4) work and such… (there must be a comparable expression to ‘such a First World problem’ that describes the vast range of jobs and employment choices and requirements) Wait, I just remembered! the Doctrine has something to say about jobs!  “Everyone works just as hard at what they do as everyone else.” (It’s true!  Look it up!)

5) *this space reserved for Insightful and Poignant Crowd-Sourced Grat Item (click 10 to make your contribution)

6) the internet (again) for allowing us, as individuals to feel free to express ourselves in ways that we would not, in a million years consider in the Real World, without depriving us of the total head-swelling feeling that accompanies the post faux-temp-couragous moment.

7) serial novel websites, even though they are clunky to use and subject to the same Lamarckian social environment that, having somehow survived once, we find ourselves eager to through ourselfs back into  Blogdominion Chapter 8 out this Sunday  (Sister Margaret Ryan and Detective Maribeth Hartley go out for a Sunday dinner at a local Italian restaurant and discuss Life, Death, computers, Police procedure and why Sister Margaret is not going to give up on the mystery of the defaced school website.)

8) Lizzi and her band of co-hostinae for maintaining this space over what we calculated was either 2.3 years or half of the last period of time that we mark in our heads as: ‘ok, I think I’m getting it’

9) Phyllis and her Treehouse and z and her Six and the SGV (with their well-worn, kama sutra of bloghop Rule Books: the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

10) 1.3

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