Date: 2006-06-05 01:55 pm (UTC)
To: [Sanctimonious]
From: [Nonetheless Unfazed]

It doesn't matter what they think is the most important. That's the mark of selfishness and it's wasting the talents they have. How much more for the greater good could you be doing if you applied yourself to research rather than dancing or making pancakes for Jamie and dreaming of white picket fences and 2.5 kids? Doug could be designing the most brilliant encryption/decryption software the world's ever witnessed - but you know what? He spends most of his time at the side of his "hot redhead girlfriend", a fact that he has never missed the opportunity to point out and parade around like some trophy of superiority.

You think I'm supposed to respect that? Let me fill you in on something: love is nothing special. If it was, it wouldn't be something everyone could accomplish, from some dirt farmer in Botswana to a Fortune 500 executive in Stamford. There's absolutely nothing exceptional about it - there is about genius, however.

When Mr. al-Rashid needed our help, you two set everything else aside and together we all accomplished things that surpassed experts who've been in the field for years. THAT is genius. THAT is something to respect.

What galls me is that I'm apparently the only one who doesn't require a life-threatening crisis to take my gifts seriously. So Doug had a bad day and his facade of a relationship finally came crashing down on him. Not my fault, and not my concern except as it relates to the likelihood of him being able to put more time into pursuits that can benefit more than his own ego.

JHF

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