I have a list of things I need to get done this week, but I can't because I'm too busy spending every possible free second reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

years of my short life
gone in so many instants
Ayn Rand, I hate you.

Today is better. Today will be better. I will continue to work hard and be productive and not paranoid and not stressy. I will breathe. I will eat moderate snacks during the day to keep my blood sugar more even. I will enjoy the homemade cookies I brought in and not feel bad. I will also eat fruit. I will complete action items. I will buy my best ( Read more... )

Just a good morning post from Tora, the unfortunately early riser. What’s that you say? It doesn’t seem early to you? Lots of people are at work at 830? Yes, yes, and some people eat cereal for breakfast instead of cold pizza. This does not make me want to join them in their oatmeal-and-calisthenics before the sun comes up ( Read more... )

* There is a lot of ugly furniture on Craigslist ( Read more... )

You all know the drill. Respond if you want me to ask you stuff.

My answers to helloheather's questions...

Oh Heather, I just KNEW you’d come up with good questions. These are all really good and I’m feeling happiness answering them.

1. Do you miss having a work "community", as a consultant? Yes. Even though I’m very private at work (okay, and in general), ( Read more... )

from the White House website

OPEN TO THE PUBLICThe White House is the only private residence of a head of state that is open to the public, free of charge. Thomas Jefferson held the first Inaugural open house in 1805, and he welcomed visitors to annual receptions on New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July. In 1829, a horde of 20,000 Inaugural ( Read more... )

On your lunch hour, perhaps you should not sit at your desk and read account of seven astronauts dying 16 minutes from home.

Because you may suddenly have to hide your face in a binder full of documentation, tears in your eyes, hoping no one chooses this moment to say, "Hey, whatcha reading?"

It WAS Paula Danziger!

"Remember when you said you already knew about me ( Read more... )

Can anyone remember a young adult book wherein the boy meets the girl because he keeps going to the library to check out books and her name keeps showing up as a previous checker-outer of all the books he wants (in fact, in at least one case, she has a book he wants that he's been waiting for), so he asks the librarian about her and the librarian ( Read more... )