Well, I broke my New Year's Resolutions last week, but I'm choosing to view it as a vacation rather than a failure. I got back on course with all of them on Sunday, and today I had a great cross-training experience with weight-lifting (leg press). For you BSG fans, that's the same machine that Kara Thrace uses when she's trying to recover from ( Read more... )

Today is 15 days into the new year, and so far I have kept all of my resolutions, every single day. Optimism is high ( Read more... )

Here at the beginning of the calendar year, I like to take some time to reflect on my current state of being and that of the world around me. This time around, I've actually been in a mild form of contemplation for a few weeks now, for a number of reasons, so I've done a bit more thinking about things than usual for this period ( Read more... )

(N.B.: subject line attribution: "Radioactive," Imagine Dragons.)

This week has really flown by, hasn't it? I kind of lost track somewhere in there, what with three separate hard deadlines along with the usual day-to-day. Hope it's at least been a good one for all of you!

Media stuff
-- Thor 2 opens in theaters here today, and I am really ( Read more... )

It's not even 8 AM here in Colorado, and I've already gotten in a workout at the gym, had breakfast, caught up on my email at the office, and am now writing this post.

Who is this person, and what have you done with
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Not unexpectedly, as I think I mentioned in the post itself, no sooner had I posted about things at work lightening up a bit than I got an email this morning suggesting that the evaluation plan I had slated to finish in the next 2 weeks was due on Sept. 30th. My response was "gee, sure would have been nice if someone had TOLD me that at any point ( Read more... )

Microaggression of the day: having every single professional group referred to in meetings and other contexts as "the guys" or "those guys," especially when I know that the people making the references are actually thinking of the groups in question as all male, not using the term as a catch-all for the whole population involved. They don't ( Read more... )

Eventually I will get around to making these posts in the morning instead of the evening, but since the fact of the matter is that I have never been a morning person in my life (despite many, many efforts in that direction), I suspect it may be a while ( Read more... )