Here's a loaded question: what does it take to be cool ( Read more... )

Each day I look at myself in the mirror, and I seem the same.  Same brown eyes, sporting the same ponytail that I wear day after day, earrings sliding into the piercings I've had since I was an infant.  I look down, and my hands and feet are still long and slender.  I'm still relatively fit.  I've run into people from high school whom I haven't ( Read more... )

Have I ever mentioned that I am an introvert?  Rhetorical question, of course.  I mention it now because I am exhausted, and I know that a lot of it has to do with the fact that I am a very introverted individual doing a job generally taken on by Type-A personalities.  I found this article a few months ago about introverts, and it makes more sense ( Read more... )

This probably isn't the best place for this, but I have plenty of thinking to do/thoughts to sort out, and I feel that writing about them might help.  My evaluation at work was yesterday.  My boss and I went through the eval itself, and that went pretty much as I expected it to--even better in a couple ways--but it didn't stop there.  He discussed ( Read more... )