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Life Lately
My employer relocated the office to someplace across town and it's been fun getting used to a new commute and a new space. Along with the change in location, my hours were changed from 32/wk to 20/wk and that's been interesting. I'm ashamed to say I haven't really filled the extra 8 hours with anything productive yet. It's really only an extra ( Read more... ) -
Life it too short to spend more than a third asleep
Lately, by lately, I mean the last couple of years or so, I've 'wasted' my weekend by sleeping late. Yes, rest is important and 8 hours of sleep per night is not too much. I do think that I should stop sleeping later than 8 or 9 on the days I'm not working. It's 2:30 now, and at 2:30 last Saturday we'd barely had brunch. Today, I got up early ( Read more... ) -
Anne McCaffrey died over Thanksgiving
Anne McCaffrey died from a stroke the week of Thanksgiving. I didn't hear until now and I've teared up thinking about her. She wrote many great stories about strong rebellious young women and fancy dragons that you could ride while ridding your planet of a bad menace. She was my first science-fiction/fantasy-author love, simultaneous with Piers ( Read more... ) -
About Apologies and Forgiveness
I've been thinking lately about what forgiveness is, especially in regards to the people we love and the people who love us. Sometimes I have this expectation or unrealistic want for love to be unconditional. That once someone loves someone else it means instant forgiveness and complete acceptance of the other person under most circumstances. ( Read more... ) -
Inspired by a comment
I just made this comment on epiphanyrun 's livejournal where she mentioned something related to the difference between her outside life interaction and her livejournal interaction. It reminded me of one of the things I wrote in a recent class paper about community.
I just did a paper on community, and the community I chose to identify with is LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
A place to invest my humanity
" Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity." -- Albert Schweitzer
This quote just came up on my quotations feeds and I have to say, that is my motto for the next 2 years. I'm all set up to go to UNM in the fall. Student loans and admissions are squared away! Just trying to figure out what to take and ( Read more... ) -
YIR in pictures or some pictures from 2010
Well, one of the awesome things about 2010 was that in March I bought my slr and started taking pictures like mad. And then after the big vacation in June I stopped taking too many pictures until November or so. So although this started as a year in review, I realized maybe just posting some random pictures for the year would make more sense.
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Another successful semester
It was another successful semester at CNM, the local community college. I must say though, that after taking Developmental Psychology last spring, Intro Criminology, and the survey class on the criminal justice system this fall, I think the teachers at CNM not teaching math and science, are far too lenient. I'm doing well, thank goodness, but a ( Read more... ) -
Never Any Ads if I can Help It...
So, not only is there this facebook controversy, BUT as I went to log in, I saw an ad for 'google ad-sense' that said 'become a paid member of lj and subscribe to this, people will go to your lj but see ads anyway, and you'll earn money'. WTF google/livejournal???? I'm not sure I agree with that either. This is live JOURNAL it's not really a ( Read more... ) -
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In other truly less complex news I gave myself the week and weekend off from exercise last week due to adjusting to the medication. And then, I didn't get a chance to go to the gym or running until tonight when I went to the gym. ( Surprising weight loss progress )