[Ansteorra] Boasting: then and now (Re: Wanting Awards & Persona)

[Marc Carlson]

>Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace sirlyonel at hotmail.com
>It's enough to drive you nuts, n'est-ce pas?  We're raised to believe in 
>the virtues of modesty and humility, but job interviews, résumés, college 
>applications, annual employee evaluations, and book publishers accepting 
>unsolicited manuscripts all expect you to trumpet your own abilities. 
>What's worse, they expect you to be skilled at it.

Darned straight.  Personally, I'd *love* to be able to overcome my 
programming enough to not only say that I'm cooler than rocky road, AND to 
appreciate it too.  OTOH, considering how arrogant I can come across right 
now, I'd be really unsufferable  :)

Marc/Diarmaid