This is a talk on happiness and how the mind is divided into the experiencing self and the remembering self. It's from the TED conference, which I can't explain, but here's a link so you'll see for yourself
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i get better at stuff, and long projects come to fruition.
inversions on silks that used to scare me are now fun. four years of slogging through data collection and analysis is now writing a paper and trying to get it published. the changes may seem to be within-activity, but the *doing* feels very different, so the experience is different than it was before.
Going to school has helped. Having a fairly active social life helps- even if certain aspects aren't going anywhere, social life is still moving and growing, so it's good. Then again, I'm planning on going to Bumfuck, IL once I graduate, so maybe I"m not the best person to be asking.
...when did I get to be the wanderlusty one? ::boggle::
Tell me more about your plans for Bumfuck IL, and when are you graduating and BTW could you just like update me on your whole life at the moment? How are you? I am mucho-malo non-talky friend :(
I should try harder to have a social life even though most of my friends don't live anywhere near me. But it's hard.
Here's one thing that makes it hard for me to be social. Out of everyone I know locally, I only know FOUR PEOPLE who READ BOOKS: Erin from high school Corinne, who I met through Josh Jan, a co-worker And my mom.
Hm. The easy, glib answer seems to be "meet more people, find more friends who read books", but...I know that's hard in this day and age. And meeting new people is scary.
But yeah. Right now I'm planning on going to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Grad school of library and info sciences for their certificate in special collections. I won't be there for long- it's a yearlong course at best, but...It's traveling. Going somewhere other than the Northeast.
Awesome! Good for you, and IL isn't that bad really. Great city up north, fun caves in the south.
I don't know what people do to meet more people nowadays. I work the 2-10:30 shift so my only evenings are weekends. I think I'll pay closer attention to Metroland and Craigslist, and see what events are going on that I can attend. I mean stuff must get advertised somewhere right?
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inversions on silks that used to scare me are now fun. four years of slogging through data collection and analysis is now writing a paper and trying to get it published. the changes may seem to be within-activity, but the *doing* feels very different, so the experience is different than it was before.
hth?
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...when did I get to be the wanderlusty one? ::boggle::
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I should try harder to have a social life even though most of my friends don't live anywhere near me. But it's hard.
Here's one thing that makes it hard for me to be social. Out of everyone I know locally, I only know FOUR PEOPLE who READ BOOKS:
Erin from high school
Corinne, who I met through Josh
Jan, a co-worker
And my mom.
4. People. Who read books.
***screams in fury***
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But yeah. Right now I'm planning on going to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Grad school of library and info sciences for their certificate in special collections. I won't be there for long- it's a yearlong course at best, but...It's traveling. Going somewhere other than the Northeast.
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I don't know what people do to meet more people nowadays. I work the 2-10:30 shift so my only evenings are weekends. I think I'll pay closer attention to Metroland and Craigslist, and see what events are going on that I can attend. I mean stuff must get advertised somewhere right?
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