OKCupid has a great feature where users must summarize themselves in only three adjectives, such as "Adventurous, quirky, and enthusiastic" or "Sporty, musical, and dynamic." This provides a challenge for the singleton to define his or her self both accurately as well as attractively ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone reads this thing anymore, but I don't want to post on Facebook and have every old high school acquaintance thinking I'm even more of a nerd ( Read more... )

This weekend I decided I finally feel like an adult. Mentally.

I finally have a grip on my goals, values, self-esteem and consciousness. I know what I believe, and I know what I want. I know what I stand for, and what I don't.

A book that has some of the most amazing insights into our daily lives is Flow, which is a psychological theory of ( Read more... )

It's time to pass on some wisdom I finally discovered today. Whether everyone else knows this already is irrelevant to me, as I finally do too.

For years, or my whole life even, I have believed that work was never necessary. "Work" just seemed to be goal-directed action, and if a goal were valuable to you, then it is logical that you would enjoy ( Read more... )

The nerdiest line I've ever stood in ( Read more... )

This morning I was wondering why the hell car mirrors haven't been redesigned so as to not have any blind spots. I drive on the capital beltway to work every day, and I as well as others have to constantly turn our heads over our shoulders to look for cars before changing lanes. The mirrors help, but I need to be 100 ( Read more... )

I may be writing more this year. Anyway, this is not a very related entry to anything, so I lj-cut it out. But if you've seen Ferris Bueller (and apparently everyone but me has seen it 10 times) and are interested in it, I wrote down notes after watching it today, mainly because the sort of excitement that Ferris lives is something I could use. It ( Read more... )

Well the total of my posts for 2006 comprise all of one page in my Livejoural. I know this because I read through them all to remember what happened this year ( Read more... )

I don't have anything in particular to write about. Maybe I'll jot a few random thoughts ( Read more... )

Reunion synopsis ( Read more... )