I'm still listening to Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and there's an entire part about how the open office plans so many companies use have been shown to decrease productivity and increase employee stress levels including higher blood pressure, irritability and other symptoms. I suppose in my case we can add " ( Read more... )

So at the event I went to yesterday I was talking to someone and they described me as "extroverted" and I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. That is a word I would never use to describe myself, but when I thought about it he was probably reacting to my body language, since I try to avoid crossing my arms in front of myself and similar ( Read more... )

Well, now that I've been at my new job for over a week I can say some things about it. So far it's going pretty well and it's certainly made me life easier on the financial front ( Read more... )

Subject line is sarcastic in case you couldn't tell ( Read more... )

Okay, that's quite enough of that. Earlier tonight I met with a guy from one of my classes to work on preparing for the midterm, though mainly what we did was identify where the information we needed was, i.e. in which page of what book or which lecture that bit of information was in so we could work on it on our own later, which is what I've been ( Read more... )

Good God, am I the only person at the University who's not stressed out about finals to the point of sequestering myself in my room to study or off in town/at home screwing around? I haven't seen any of my roommates in about two days since they went home, and while it's a bit nice to have the room to myself it makes me aware of how big this room is ( Read more... )

One thing we're starting to see here at Suffolk is the separation of the people for whom this was the right school and the people for whom it wasn't. I went with Jamie, a friend of mine, to Cambridge on Tuesday (after being woken up by that parade) and we ended up talking about that over dinner. Both of us are the type of person who doesn't need a ( Read more... )

Now that our cable box is working properly again and giving us more than 24 channels (and yes I realize the irony that at home we don't even get that many on an antenna) I'm starting to remember why Jean Luc Picard is one of my role models. Most people seem to agree that Picard is an INTJ, so that might be part of why I gravitated towards him. That ( Read more... )

Ugh. For some reason I've been really exhausted today and actually went home to take a nap after class. I did however manage to wake up in time for the drag workshop, which is a post for another day ( Read more... )

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