My boss wants to send me to a 2-day workshop in a few months to improve my business communication skills.  It's in another state.  The company will pay for airfare, hotel, and food in addition to the conference fee.  I feel guilty about what the whole thing will cost, and wonder if there is someone else who should attend so we could maybe split the ( Read more... )

I saw Iron Man the week it came out, and was so impressed that I went to see it a second time.  Why can't more superhero movies be this serious, funny, and relevant all at the same time?  I agreed with the critics that the climax actually felt a bit underwhelming compared to Tony Stark's big escape in the first half of the film, yet this still ( Read more... )

I've been listening to the 21 tracks on the Morrissey best-of album pretty much every day since I bought it.  It can be as dark as people say of Morrissey's work in general, but I find a good portion of it funny as well.  I enjoy the juxtaposition of almost insanely catchy beats and somewhat twisted lyrics ("The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get ( Read more... )

 So...I have a lot going on.

Work.  Improving performance at work. Surviving work long enough to find another job.  Actively searching for a new job.  My proofreading gigs.  The need to get updated on writing style standards.  Writing an introductory speech about myself for this speech club I joined at work -- ironically, I probably won't be around ( Read more... )

I gotta look for another job.

ETA: I am so sick of the words fast-paced and multi-tasking.   Why do 98% of jobs have to include those words in their description?  Look, I'm pretty sure I'm not an imbecile or a lazy bum, but apparently my ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task to the 100,000th power just sucks.  I understand ( Read more... )

This is several months old, but the interviewer just posted it a week or two ago. It's kind of disorganized and rambly, which I guess is due to the fact this interview was so long ago and the interviewer was piecing it together from notes and memory. In any case, it's a fun little read for fangirls such as myself as Paul gives an update on what he' ( Read more... )

Because I know I can take myself too seriously and spend far too much time pondering the emptiness of existence...here's a faux French existential film shot in black and white. With a kitty in it. A haunted kitty.

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Silly, inappropriate thoughts while watching some films:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Faramir (showing the hidden freshwater cave pool to Frodo, as Gollum happily catches fish): This is the Forbidden Pool.  We shoot all trespassers.

Me: It's forbidden because that's where we all go skinny-dipping.

Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man's Chest
The ( Read more... )

I think I am actually strange by a lot of standards.  Not that close to "normal" at all.  (At least other eccentrics have better social skills.)

I sound like I'm going through some developmentally-delayed emo phase, but I am kinda pathetic.

The only people I speak with on a daily basis are my family.  Literally, I have no friends in the city I live ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I deleted all my old thesis research, including the articles and statistical analyses I had run.  I even deleted all of the remaining statistical software on my computer -- SAS, SPSS, STATA.  I ditched LISREL a long time ago because I never got into structural equation modeling.

I'm OK with it!  I'm OK with never going back to ( Read more... )