Word: yearning
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Fine. But what I really yearn for, as I watch the beautifully rendered 3-D graph that sprints across my screen in flickering blues, purples and reds, is a Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
...obsess about hospital corners, I harass my roommate to reline the trash cans, I can recite the recipe for home-baked bread, I fanatically obey cleaning tags on my clothes and you could eat off of my swept, mopped, polished floor. Once, I churned butter. Basically, I secretly yearn to be Homemaker of the Year...
...love to be able to go for a walk or do yard work," O'Keefe lamented, popping the trunk and packing it full of the day's purchases. "This kind of weather makes me yearn for that extra hour of leisure...
...love to be able to go for a walk or do yard work," O'Keefe lamented, popping the trunk and packing it full of the day's purchases. "This kind of weather makes me yearn for that extra hour of leisure...
...Bear in mind that people with eating disorders yearn to know that someone could both know the worst about them and love them and care about them anyway. Remember that human company and empathy matter and that hurt and pain are often more bearable in the company of another human being...