Posted in Thoughts, tagged links, ocpd, productivity, relaxing, tumblog on March 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The problem with having a week where I don’t have anything to do is that I constantly feel guilty about not doing anything useful. Instead of sitting around reading, watching tv shows, and reading feeds online, shouldn’t I be doing something productive? Instead of sleeping for 10 hours a day and napping every few hours, [...]
Posted in Thoughts, tagged happiness, motivation on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve read a lot of articles on happiness, but this is something I haven’t seen elsewhere before that I’ve found to be true: you can be happy with a lot less if you have something to look forward to. That’s mostly how I get through taking tough classes or doing tedious work. No matter how [...]
Posted in Thoughts, tagged alerts, attention, email, productivity on March 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I feel like I have such a short attention span these days. It stems from having too much stuff to check – email, feeds, scrabulous, and chat windows. Even when I’m doing homework on paper with the computer off, I have this little alert that goes off in my head that says “Check whether there’s [...]
Posted in Photos, Quotes, tagged books, flowers, links, Photos, Quotes, spring on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found etavitom today somewhere in the mess of items in my feed reader. I like how everything is bite-sized, perfect for my shrinking attention span. From the quotes section:
“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment – and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person.”
-Michael P. Nichols
From my own [...]
Posted in Quotes, Thoughts, tagged attitude, illness, life on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“When I get scared, I focus on a definition of fate provided to me by a professor in college. Describing an ancient Greek perspective, he explained that fate could be imagined as a plot of fenced land. The individual cannot control where the fence stakes are placed. But every person determines for herself how she [...]
Posted in Photos, tagged cherry blossoms, cow, hiking, the dish on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hiked around the Dish with two friends today. I’m usually pretty bad at walking, so 4 miles was a big deal for me, but I did okay. At the top, there were a bunch of cows just sitting around.
We were greeted by this lovely sign before entering:
I wonder how they keep the cows from [...]
