It is imperative to remember that until you start being properly socialized again, being around other people while you or they are trying to do work is a really bad idea, since you prevent both yourself and the other people from getting work done. (It's not an active desire to prevent, or even an active attempt to do so. It's just that being ( Read more... )

I just found a great resource for students of art-based classes. It is called ARTstor. It is like JSTOR, only for art instead of journal articles ( Read more... )

Dear Lazyweb ( Read more... )

This was spawned from an abortive comment on demiurgent's last post. I figured that, like so much of what I've had to say recently, it would just be boring to the people reading Eric's journal who have no idea who I am and who really don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about my hangups, so I'm posting it here, where all of you can not give the same ( Read more... )

10:25 PM: I think to myself, "I should get to bed soon."

10:30 PM: I start preparing to go to bed.

10:33 PM: My supervisor sends me an email: "There's a problem with the website that needs to be fixed now."

1:00 AM: I finish working out the problem with the website ( Read more... )

...I'm a little glad that my internal self-censoring mechanism is a little hyperactive.

or, Holy Crap, That's What I Look Like From The Side?

So here's the trouble with goals: I don't know how to set and keep them. I'm not very good with setting internal consequences for not meeting goals. (You may read that as "I don't have very much willpower", if you like.) So I have a problem with getting things done, as long as there are no ( Read more... )

When I get pissed off to the point of quoting James Madison at a stupid, thoughtless comment on someone else's weblog, ... well, no, that's pretty much bog-standard irritable for me, isn't it?

But I am irritable.

I went to my classes today. History was better than I thought (I apparently have scraped out a grade on Thursday's exam that was two ( Read more... )

Thing 1: my $165 phone bill.
Thing 2: the fantastic new hard drive is serial ATA (SATA-1), not ATA, and so I can't use it.

Where's Thing 3?

I just thought of something about a phone call I received/made last night. See, I've been getting phone calls from Kay's Jewelers looking for a Cassie Anthony. This isn't too far off my name, but I've never in my life bought anything from Kay's Jewelers or voluntarily subscribed to any of their contact lists, so I'm guessing it's just someone ( Read more... )