Hello world

[nerotika]

63 weeks since my last confession...

Life update:
I am up to a few different things since I quit my job and haven't been able to find another.

1. Learn how to keep my house clean and make dinner regularly
2. Get a part time job so's I don't go insane, and so I can afford to renovate our house.
3. Be happier. Which of course I have turned into several demanding,

Comments

[inhumandecency]

Hi

[nerotika]

Oh, Michael, do you really think of yourself as dour and cynical? I think of you as a source of joy and fun :)

Oooh, I would like to hear about your old advisor's new book...

[inhumandecency]

I thought about linking to it last night, but I was too lazy.

Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson. The book is kind of a narrative guide to ten years of research from the PEPlab, plus a lot of imagery and anecdotes intended to really get it stuck in people's heads. It's pretty solid, though I'd be more comfortable if this work was more closely replicated by other investigators.*

* I tried and failed to replicate many of the experiments described here, but I am adamant that this doesn't cast doubt on the results, since every other experiment I ever ran also failed.

[la_chispa]

In a couple of months, you and I can start trading tales from the hausfrau trenches! (the_macnab got America's Last Job, you know.

the hausfrau trenches

[nerotika]

my new favorite phrase. i think i need a helmet to go along with it.

ps, why did he have to take the last job? *I* wanted it!