Incubating vs. procrastinating from skippyclese, and something I've been calling 'the assumption of competence' from ovrclockdI'm thinking that I'm very much an incubator, since stuff regularly pops up completed from the depths of my subconscious - if I try to force it, it doesn't work at all, or comes out messy and I have to re-do it anyway. This is true with ( Read more... )

On Monday, I got an email from my dad, telling me that he had come in to possession of my 7th grade yearbook, and would I like it? He told me that my high-school boyfriend #1 had found it at his parents' house, and had given it to high-school boyfriend #2, who sees my dad pretty often (they work near each other). So I said sure, and he sent it to ( Read more... )

I've noticed over the years that I have two types of project dawdling. This can apply to handwork/fiber crafts as well as programming for work or chores at home (to a lesser extent ( Read more... )

Presenting margaretc, new and improved! New glasses (arriving next week), new hair, new pipes, new smaller bod (although I'm still working on that), new joy at work thanks to the fun of sharing brains.

( Afternoon, the obligatory music performance )

I'm reading this article about rejection in Psychology Today that seems apropos to several of the current discussions I see going on in several of my societies right now.

If you read this and don't go 'hey, yeah' (or whatever your equivalent phrase is), please open up a dialogue about why this article doesn't resonate at all with you.

There's a paper put out by the EPA about idling schoolbuses and how they pollute less when turned off and on again than they do when idling for three minutes or longer.

I think my timing is off as far as personal activism goes. This post just isn't about the interesting stuff these days, and seems to be getting no comments and no attention. Sigh ( Read more... )

I've noticed lately that my suspension of disbelief is broken, especially for movies. It still works pretty well for books, but not perfectly. Here's what I mean (this specific movie is Spiderman 2) - when I'm watching a movie, I have a hard time getting lost in the movie without constantly saying things like "Couldn't you just OPEN the door ( Read more... )