Friday, January 30, 2009
Quote of the day.
A good friend helps you up when you fall. A best friend laughs at you and trips you again.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The last line is hilarious.
It's always there. Waiting and calling to you. Fark. Reddit. Facebook. Dolphin Olympics. It may take only a couple minutes out of your day, but you know you're wasting time on this stuff whether you should be working on that spreadsheet or washing the dishes.
Time-wasting, or rather "chronic procrastination," is hardly a laughing matter, according to Professor Joseph Ferrari of Chicago's DePaul University. According to an insightful story in UK's Observer, it's a profound "social and economic" problem and, thanks to technology, it's far worse than you could ever imagine.
Procrastination isn't just idle laziness. There are real social consequences to wasting time. Per the story, "it encourages depression, lowers self-esteem, causes insomnia, and indirectly affects health by discouraging visits to the dentist or doctor. Sufferers are also more likely to have accidents at home involving unmended appliances." Makes sense if you think about it.
Of course, it's the economic impact that has businesses more concerned. Distractions aren't just limited to the lure of the web. That little chime that rings when an email message arrives, says research from Calgary University, causes a 0.5 percent drop in the Gross Domestic Product here in the United States, costing the country $70 billion a year, as employees are distracted from the task they're supposed to be focused on.
Tech is the real driver in this trend, which now impacts 1 in 4 people, up from 1 in 20 a few decades ago. But some scientists say procrastination is hard wired in our brains: People have always wasted time, and evolution may be responsible for developing an "automatic response" mechanism inside us, one which innately told us to drop the cave painting and run if a tiger came sniffing around the cave.
On the other hand, some say procrastination is still useful in tiger-free times: Earlier this year one study found that personal web use (including video games and social networking) helps employees get their jobs done more efficiently (and raises profits) by fostering a "trusting" environment and helping staffers feel at ease in the workplace. Obviously there's a fine line between "wasting time" and "taking a little break." Where that line actually falls remains a mystery.
Now stop reading blogs and get back to work.
By Chris Null
Here is the link.
Time-wasting, or rather "chronic procrastination," is hardly a laughing matter, according to Professor Joseph Ferrari of Chicago's DePaul University. According to an insightful story in UK's Observer, it's a profound "social and economic" problem and, thanks to technology, it's far worse than you could ever imagine.
Procrastination isn't just idle laziness. There are real social consequences to wasting time. Per the story, "it encourages depression, lowers self-esteem, causes insomnia, and indirectly affects health by discouraging visits to the dentist or doctor. Sufferers are also more likely to have accidents at home involving unmended appliances." Makes sense if you think about it.
Of course, it's the economic impact that has businesses more concerned. Distractions aren't just limited to the lure of the web. That little chime that rings when an email message arrives, says research from Calgary University, causes a 0.5 percent drop in the Gross Domestic Product here in the United States, costing the country $70 billion a year, as employees are distracted from the task they're supposed to be focused on.
Tech is the real driver in this trend, which now impacts 1 in 4 people, up from 1 in 20 a few decades ago. But some scientists say procrastination is hard wired in our brains: People have always wasted time, and evolution may be responsible for developing an "automatic response" mechanism inside us, one which innately told us to drop the cave painting and run if a tiger came sniffing around the cave.
On the other hand, some say procrastination is still useful in tiger-free times: Earlier this year one study found that personal web use (including video games and social networking) helps employees get their jobs done more efficiently (and raises profits) by fostering a "trusting" environment and helping staffers feel at ease in the workplace. Obviously there's a fine line between "wasting time" and "taking a little break." Where that line actually falls remains a mystery.
Now stop reading blogs and get back to work.
By Chris Null
Here is the link.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Quote of the day.
"The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood; ugly,pretty, handsome; what have you. The right person's still gonna think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person worth sticking with."
It confuses me...
It confuses me when you tell me one thing and do another. When you treat me different than others. It makes me wonder how real it is or if it's just a fragment of my imagination.
I get confused when you tell me what I want to hear instead of what you want to say. I know it's not easy to tell the truth sometimes and that it hurts but confusing me doesn't help the situation.
I wish that it was as easy as learning your ABC's but it's not. It's more complicated than that and you make it even more complicated sometimes.
I'm tired, I wish that it was easier than this, I want things to be uncomplicated, and simple. Maybe I'm just asking for too much.
I get confused when you tell me what I want to hear instead of what you want to say. I know it's not easy to tell the truth sometimes and that it hurts but confusing me doesn't help the situation.
I wish that it was as easy as learning your ABC's but it's not. It's more complicated than that and you make it even more complicated sometimes.
I'm tired, I wish that it was easier than this, I want things to be uncomplicated, and simple. Maybe I'm just asking for too much.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I'm going through a phase... it's the first one of this New Year. It certainly didn't take long. I hate these phases, I always get through them but when it hits rock bottom there is nothing that makes it seem like it's going to go away.
I'm lost, confused and feel utterly alone. I have an amazing support system but I don't know how to use it.
I doubt myself at every turn, at every stop, at everything. I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. Sometimes I stop and want to just say "screw it, it's not worth it."
I want a second chance, a chance to go back to before I came out, a chance to wash away the pain and uncertainty that I brought onto myself for saying what I said, a chance to hang out with my best friend again. Why did things happen the way they did?
On a day like today, I don't feel stronger, I don't feel wiser and I definitely don't feel confident. I want the easy option, to crawl into a hole and hide until the darkness passes but I can't find one.
So I'll sit myself down, under a tree and wait, hoping that this storm too will pass.
I'm lost, confused and feel utterly alone. I have an amazing support system but I don't know how to use it.
I doubt myself at every turn, at every stop, at everything. I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. Sometimes I stop and want to just say "screw it, it's not worth it."
I want a second chance, a chance to go back to before I came out, a chance to wash away the pain and uncertainty that I brought onto myself for saying what I said, a chance to hang out with my best friend again. Why did things happen the way they did?
On a day like today, I don't feel stronger, I don't feel wiser and I definitely don't feel confident. I want the easy option, to crawl into a hole and hide until the darkness passes but I can't find one.
So I'll sit myself down, under a tree and wait, hoping that this storm too will pass.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I wish.
The lines between reality and my imagination blur just a bit and I believe, for a split second that we can be together. The part of my brain that tells me it’s not true is overruled by the part that thinks “what if”, and those thoughts are strengthen by the fact that my heart so wants it to be true. I want to be with you, though I know it’s not possible, I know that it would just end in heartache and pain for both of us. They say that opposites attract and in our case it can’t be truer. We came from different walks in life and met somehow in the mist of all the chaos. We became each other’s rock, a support that we hadn’t found and didn’t know before. Perhaps that is what makes me love you so much. Perhaps one day things will change or perhaps I’m just wishing for something that is never going to happen.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy
A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant.
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy
Friday, January 9, 2009
Love & Hate
With love comes hate... there is no doubt about it, but when it's all said and done people need to forgive, sometimes forget and move on. There is no point in holding on to hate when it does nothing but eat you inside.
I know it's easier said than done but I think that's it's something we all have to work harder at. It's ok to be angry; it's an emotion, that's what makes up humans. But being angry is easy... it's much harder to forgive someone then it is to be angry at them.
You can forever hold that hate inside or you can let it go... let it go so that it can be fill up with something else.
Think about this... heated anger is about passion where as cold anger is about hate. Which one do you have? Passion can drive us to do great things while hate will only destroy us.
I'm sorry, I held the hate inside me for so long, I wanted to hate you because it was easier than to love you, to love you like I did before or even think about loving you again. At first it was a heated anger... I was so angry that it happened the way it did but after a while I hated you because I could, because I was too weak to forgive you and to forgive myself. I couldn't come to face that I had a part in what happened as well, it wasn't all your fault, we both had a hand in it. I saw you this past week and all the hate that I held inside me came flooding back but when we started to talk I realized that I didn't want to hate anymore, it was too much. I asked for your forgiveness and you gave it to me, you asked for my forgiveness and I finally got to forgive you and more importantly myself. It seemed so easy but for the longest time all I could do was hate you because I didn't want to feel any other way. I just want to say you were my first, and I will never forget you. I'm glad we are on better terms now. I wish you all the best.
I know it's easier said than done but I think that's it's something we all have to work harder at. It's ok to be angry; it's an emotion, that's what makes up humans. But being angry is easy... it's much harder to forgive someone then it is to be angry at them.
You can forever hold that hate inside or you can let it go... let it go so that it can be fill up with something else.
Think about this... heated anger is about passion where as cold anger is about hate. Which one do you have? Passion can drive us to do great things while hate will only destroy us.
I'm sorry, I held the hate inside me for so long, I wanted to hate you because it was easier than to love you, to love you like I did before or even think about loving you again. At first it was a heated anger... I was so angry that it happened the way it did but after a while I hated you because I could, because I was too weak to forgive you and to forgive myself. I couldn't come to face that I had a part in what happened as well, it wasn't all your fault, we both had a hand in it. I saw you this past week and all the hate that I held inside me came flooding back but when we started to talk I realized that I didn't want to hate anymore, it was too much. I asked for your forgiveness and you gave it to me, you asked for my forgiveness and I finally got to forgive you and more importantly myself. It seemed so easy but for the longest time all I could do was hate you because I didn't want to feel any other way. I just want to say you were my first, and I will never forget you. I'm glad we are on better terms now. I wish you all the best.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Quote of the day.
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
Fun, Fun, Funny
This morning I hit the hill before heading to school, while on the chairlift a girl and her friend were discussing the pros and cons of riding powder as oppose to man-made snow. The hill I go to is considered within the city limits, it's just on the brink of the city, therefore the snow there is groomed every morning and we don't get as much fresh snow as some of the mountain resorts. The conversation is as follows:
"I like the middle of the hill the best, it's already all carved up."
"Yah, there are some parts of the hill that have ice, it's hard to ride on ice."
"I know, I don't like ice, it's icy."
"No duh stupid... it's ice."
"Shut up"
and the rest of the ride up on the lift was quiet. =P
My friend got stalked in the bookstore at school while looking at textbooks for her classes; some guy comes up to her and says "Are you taking Psych 2283? I have the textbook; I'll sell it to you for cheap." Any student wanting to save a few bucks would agree, so my friend did. I didn't hear this part of the conversation, as I am walking up this guy says to my friend, "I'll bring the stuff, you bring the cash and it'll be a done deal." he promptly walks away. I'm confused because just hearing that sentence can imply a whole lot of things. Of course, she later tells me that he's referring to a book.
The last but not least is from my psych prof, today was our first class and I can tell that this will be one of my most interesting and fun classes this semester. It starts off with "This is the third time I've taught this class today alone, I'm not crazy, but I might have to ask you if we did something already." after handing out the outline, she tells us. "This is my third class today with the same course, did I tell you that?" She's not old, she told us that she's 40, so memory shouldn't be a problem, I'll bank it on fatigue. We do a couple activities then she writes some of our answers on the board. "Femininity, did you know that it's one of the hardest words to write on a board? I hate writing on the board, I can spell on paper but on the chalk board I'm stupid." She gets a few laughs. "Individualism is a long word; I'll do this indiv-----." She seriously just started the word then drew a line for the rest of it. o.O (<- that's me raising my eyebrows.)
"I like the middle of the hill the best, it's already all carved up."
"Yah, there are some parts of the hill that have ice, it's hard to ride on ice."
"I know, I don't like ice, it's icy."
"No duh stupid... it's ice."
"Shut up"
and the rest of the ride up on the lift was quiet. =P
My friend got stalked in the bookstore at school while looking at textbooks for her classes; some guy comes up to her and says "Are you taking Psych 2283? I have the textbook; I'll sell it to you for cheap." Any student wanting to save a few bucks would agree, so my friend did. I didn't hear this part of the conversation, as I am walking up this guy says to my friend, "I'll bring the stuff, you bring the cash and it'll be a done deal." he promptly walks away. I'm confused because just hearing that sentence can imply a whole lot of things. Of course, she later tells me that he's referring to a book.
The last but not least is from my psych prof, today was our first class and I can tell that this will be one of my most interesting and fun classes this semester. It starts off with "This is the third time I've taught this class today alone, I'm not crazy, but I might have to ask you if we did something already." after handing out the outline, she tells us. "This is my third class today with the same course, did I tell you that?" She's not old, she told us that she's 40, so memory shouldn't be a problem, I'll bank it on fatigue. We do a couple activities then she writes some of our answers on the board. "Femininity, did you know that it's one of the hardest words to write on a board? I hate writing on the board, I can spell on paper but on the chalk board I'm stupid." She gets a few laughs. "Individualism is a long word; I'll do this indiv-----." She seriously just started the word then drew a line for the rest of it. o.O (<- that's me raising my eyebrows.)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Quote of the day.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
To that I'll say... screw it, lemonade without sugar SUCKS! I'd rather use my lemons and throw them at people. ^.^
To that I'll say... screw it, lemonade without sugar SUCKS! I'd rather use my lemons and throw them at people. ^.^
You are my hero.
You are brave to try to conform to a world that asks so much from us already.
You are bold to have come out to your mom.
You are brave to have given your heart to someone else only for them to crush it and toss it back at you.
It’s heroic for you to put your family before yourself.
Our conversations no matter how short or long always brings a smile to my face.
You are bold to have come out to your mom.
You are brave to have given your heart to someone else only for them to crush it and toss it back at you.
It’s heroic for you to put your family before yourself.
Our conversations no matter how short or long always brings a smile to my face.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Oh Golly....
Today I meet this elderly lady who was in front of me in the grocery line at the store, it was a long line. =S
She turned to me and said "Oh golly, this line sure is long, I wonder where all these people came from"
Just to explain, I happen to be one of those people who others think it's ok to strike up completely strange conversations while waiting in line ups and other places.
So we have this conversation about her grandson, her dog, her shopping cart, my chicken dinner etc etc.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that she had the coolest, most cute sayings...
Among them were "oh golly" "so horrible, don't you think?" "he's my little darling" "he went to the shop(I think she meant the store)"
This by far was the best conversation I had all day. =P
She turned to me and said "Oh golly, this line sure is long, I wonder where all these people came from"
Just to explain, I happen to be one of those people who others think it's ok to strike up completely strange conversations while waiting in line ups and other places.
So we have this conversation about her grandson, her dog, her shopping cart, my chicken dinner etc etc.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that she had the coolest, most cute sayings...
Among them were "oh golly" "so horrible, don't you think?" "he's my little darling" "he went to the shop(I think she meant the store)"
This by far was the best conversation I had all day. =P
Friday, January 2, 2009
New Years Resolutions.
Some people have made it customary to make New Year’s resolutions. I’m not against them or anything but I usually end up breaking mine so I no longer write them.
People often ask “what are your new year’s resolutions?” and I say “I don’t make any… I don’t want to break them and be upset afterwords.” So people then proceed to tell me that I have no goals, not true. I don’t understand why we must wait till the New Year to make resolutions. Why can’t we change our lives and better them any time we want? I want to eat healthier… why not start now instead of waiting for 2010? What makes January 1, 2009 better than March 15, 2009?
I get it to some extent… a New Year means new beginnings but why can’t we make these new beginnings all throughout the year? Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone treated everyday of the year as New Year’s Day, a new chance to do something that they hadn’t done before. Instead we have one New Year’s Day where everyone makes resolutions to make their lives a bit better only for most of us to fail before the month is over.
p.s. 4 people were murdered in the city I live in, 1 in a fight, 3 in a shooting all on New Year’s Day… what a great way to start a new year… eh?
p.p.s. Oh and I just wanted to add... I don't make New Year's Resolutions because I'm LAZY!
People often ask “what are your new year’s resolutions?” and I say “I don’t make any… I don’t want to break them and be upset afterwords.” So people then proceed to tell me that I have no goals, not true. I don’t understand why we must wait till the New Year to make resolutions. Why can’t we change our lives and better them any time we want? I want to eat healthier… why not start now instead of waiting for 2010? What makes January 1, 2009 better than March 15, 2009?
I get it to some extent… a New Year means new beginnings but why can’t we make these new beginnings all throughout the year? Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone treated everyday of the year as New Year’s Day, a new chance to do something that they hadn’t done before. Instead we have one New Year’s Day where everyone makes resolutions to make their lives a bit better only for most of us to fail before the month is over.
p.s. 4 people were murdered in the city I live in, 1 in a fight, 3 in a shooting all on New Year’s Day… what a great way to start a new year… eh?
p.p.s. Oh and I just wanted to add... I don't make New Year's Resolutions because I'm LAZY!
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