I'm not going to lie to you, my largely theoretical readers--I have suspected for quite some time that being Carmen San Diego is not good for me. For a long time, I thought that I had bigger problems. My eye exploded. J and I spent most of a very stressful year gutting and remodeling Bunker 3. Then I traveled. And I traveled. And I traveled. In ( Read more... )

The Mysterious Workplace is having Mysterious Workplace Politics, which causes me intense stress. Workplace Politics which were supposed to cut down on my stress have only served to double it. I am awaiting the advent of meta-stress, the state in the which I spend all of my time worrying about how stressed out I am. The Powers That Be inform me ( Read more... )

The winter holidays are traditionally a time for eating just a little bit more than you thought you could fit in your belly. There are parties and holiday dinners, people who come over, sadistic co-workers who bring the results of their baking projects to the office (oops! I baked too many pies!), and assorted cooking experiments. The Mysterious ( Read more... )

Remember when I said I did not operate well under stress? Sometimes I don't know the stress is there. I just wander through my day forgetting to bring a power supply to my parents' house, finally destroying the clutch in my car, and failing to put my money in the correct drier for my laundry. Now I have failed to turn in my weekly report, rung up a ( Read more... )

Everyone likes to think that they function well under stress, just like everyone thinks they're detail-oriented and hard-working, open-minded and like all kinds of music. I deal with stress by making lists. I enumerate. I schedule. Crossing things off of lists is one of my stupid quotidian pleasures ( Read more... )

In certain circumstances, it is permissable to lie. In fact, a lie is mandatory. We lie on our resumes, in interviews, in any situation where we have to ask for money, and law school applications. If we all told the truth, it would look a little something like this ( Read more... )