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When things go the way we want them to, we feel as though we must be 'in the flow.' When we encounter disappointment, we suspect that we have displeased the god of serendipity. The trouble is, because we like the sensation of success, we try to get it as much as we can. We decide that as life often lets us down, we can expect it to. Then, when our ( Read more... )

So, I had planned to write a retrospective on 2008, but honestly I've just been too busy to sit down, reflect on everything and write. I went to catch-up on the lives of friend's I never see, had a lot to say in response to some postings, but I realized people may not want my input on certain things ( Read more... )

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

-Richard Ben Sapir

It's easier to look back on the past, then it is to look forward to the future.

Lots of stuff going on, I'll have to write when I have more time.

None of us can turn back the clock. Why then, do we all spend so much time living in the past? We can't return to it. We can't even trust that our memory of it is accurate. We can't live in the here-and-now when we bind ourselves by our ties to the there-and-then. Yet still, we somehow find it easier to look back than to cast our thoughts too far ( Read more... )

Things at work have been interesting. It's been a little odd transitioning to the new company. The new office area is pretty sweet, but there are a few quirky things that annoy me. I'm unsure of how I feel about my new co-workers and I kinda BSing all day with the peeps in the other office. I worked with peeps I'd consider my friend's; now that's ( Read more... )

I just got done moving into my new office space. It's pretty sweet, altho still a bit barren at the moment. I have an amazing view of Mount Olympus from from my window which pretty much makes my day. I had to move away from all the cute receptionists, and I must say, I will miss that view. hehe ( Read more... )

The weather in Salt Lake is an odd mix of gloomy and magical. Today on my way into work I almost had to pull over just to take in the way the clouds seemed to explode from the snowcapped mountain tops. Honestly, I never appreciated this until I moved back here ( Read more... )