It's been a peculiarly stressful week, beginning with a short visit from my brother, who flew up from Santa Barbara for our oldest sister's milestone 60th birthday.

(First of all, oh my god how do I have a sixty year old sister?)

I both love and like my brother, and we get along well. We had a nice time together.


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Naturally, the first condo I saw a listing for was perfect, unsurpassable, ideal for my needs, and already sold ( Read more... )

1. Coffitivity, the app I mentioned the other day that provides café sounds, is turning out to be something of a small miracle for me. On low volume, through earphones, it's like prosthetic concentration. I've been able to read! Really focus without skipping around, something I thought had been lost to me forever ( Read more... )

It's probably a coincidence, but following Friday's migraine-aura-neurotransmitter-cascade-hangover-hormonally-induced-brainstorm*, my brain shifted gears.


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This post was going to be about thinking styles.
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Some people may recall that I have a well-meaning but workaholic colleague whom, for reasons, I refer to online as "Norm ( Read more... )

Here is a thirteen-question quiz designed to rank your bare-minimum science understanding. Take it and then shudder in shock at the test results among Americans.

Then it becomes clear how something like this can even be a thing ( Read more... )

OMG THIS IS FANDOM PURGATORY

I want to do nothing but click through photoshoots, comment on pictures, read fic, watch eps, and work on my story, and I barely know what day it is and I don't give a shit, and any second now my supervisor is gonna come over here and say So did you accomplish ANYTHING while I was on vacation and I'll say, um, 3600 ( Read more... )

There's a psycho-physical phenomenon called ego depletion which, brain scientists speculate, is caused by over-use of the will. It happens when you have to concentrate on something, or control your reactions, or generally over-apply your conscious mind ( Read more... )