I have been getting into the habit for the past few days of sleeping for 9+ hours each night. However, to say that I am actually asleep for 9 hours wouldnt really be true. I wake up 3 or 4 times throughout the middle of the night and stay awake each time for 5-20 minutes, so by trying to sleep for 9 hours I am managing to actually get 7-8 hours ( Read more... )

I am about ten pages from the end of The Pit, and to be honest I should be reading it write now. Very quickly, although I was critical of the first half of the book I'll admit that the second half picked up the slack. I nearly missed my bus this morning while reading at the bus stop. The bus stopped and it wasn't until I heard the squeak of the ( Read more... )

The more books I read the better I am becoming at recognizing what makes a particular book good. Lately I have been asking myself not just whether or not I like the book, but why. Is it the plot and story arc that I find entrancing (The Bourne Identity, Harry Potter)? Am I captivated by the characters themselves (Ender's Game, The Lord of the ( Read more... )

I wonder if it's a rule (unwritten or otherwise) that to be a Project Manager you must be excessively peppy. I suppose only a few of you have experienced this first hand, but I'm sure all of you can relate. Every message passed between a PM and myself involves an uncomfortable level of exclamation points ( Read more... )

It was never my intention for this afternoon's post to come across as depressing or disheartening. I wrote it with a sense of matter-of-factness, meant solely to provide an accurate account of my first three weeks at Hubbard. I certainly didn't feel upset while I wrote, nor do I feel upset now as I remember. And while you may expect me to be ( Read more... )

Although it's been 3 weeks since I started my new job, I haven't really described much of anything about it. Every day new things happen and I think to myself, man I should write about this in my LJ. And every day I then think to myself, meh... maybe later. Well, I just finished lunch and everyone else is still busy eating so maybe a quick entry ( Read more... )

I had a fucked up dream last night. I don't normally sleep well (as I've briefly mentioned) and I usually wake up at various points through the night, but I don't usually feel incredibly tired and pissed off when I do. The overall plot of my dream is lost on me; I dont know if there even was one. At any rate I didn't remember the point of my ( Read more... )

I was wrong about the Heating Up at work. Life continues slightly below room-temperature. It turns out that it wasn't just an underestimation of my skills, but a complete lack in work altogether. There just isn't anything that needs to be done today. That has left me with a lot of time on my hands, and behold the third LJ entry in one day. I ( Read more... )

That last entry doesn't really count. Fowarding a chain letter doesnt count as writing an email. I don't have any particular subject to be writing about as nothing terribly and especially exciting has happened to me in the past day. I am at work now and have nothing to do. I haven't had anything to do for the past few hours actually. The way ( Read more... )

Pssst... hey kid... you wanna be cool? C'mon man... everybody's doing it....

This is a list of the one hundred and ten most banned books. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the one's you've read in part, underline the ones you plan to read.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 ( Read more... )