Breaking Point I almost broke at work today. It was shortly after my afternoon break. I came back into the office, and I could feel my body starting to shut down. My brain starting to shut out the world. I sat at my desk, buried my head in my hands, hiding behind the monitor and really didn't know for a moment how I was going to get through it. The ( Read more... )

Wednesday Stress Level Check I was a bit on edge all day. My stress level was nearly critical. I just kind of buried my head in my hands several times at work and at volleyball. I realized in the car ride home with Joe this concept: "I expected, on some level, to be excited by now. To be excited about the new prospect for housing. Stressed, yes, ( Read more... )

Owls! The major big ol' highlight of my day today? Three different times getting to stand beneath a tree full of baby owls and take photos. Just filled me up with so much joy and love for the campus in an otherwise standard and boring day.

Board So tomorrow is the Diversity Center board meeting I have been invited to. And I want to cancel and ( Read more... )

Henson Today marks the 75th Anniversary of Jim Henson's birth. It should come as no surprise to the few folks still reading this that I am a major Jim Henson fan. Hell, my screenname is a Henson creation. For me, Jim Henson was my first celebrity idol. He is the answer to the "who, living or dead, would you have dinner with" question. He was ( Read more... )

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Read-lapse You'll recall the last two years I read over 60 books each, and the year before that over 50. I averaged about five books a month. This year: January and February I read 5 books. March and April I read 3. This month, I am still 100 pages away from finishing book two. There is a sliver of me that feels like I am lagging, like I am not ( Read more... )

Influenced I saw a link on Facebook today which I followed and found myself engrossed by for most of the day. Time magazine was having an internet poll to help determine this year's Top 100 Influential people out of a little over 200 nominees. I found myself really questioning what it meant to be influential, and whether that influence had to be ( Read more... )

Another year - another book list. I set out with the idea of not worrying if I fell behind, but to try and read 5 books a month. I slipped a little in spring, but I managed to crank through some extra in late summer to 'catch up'. And last night I finished book #60. In addition, I also read or reread 5 plays, and two novellas. This is not to ( Read more... )

Weekly Whedon - Finale Over the weekend I finished off the project I started in January, to watch one disk of a Joss Whedon series every week all year. I also altered the project slightly to include reading any and all official comics associated with each project as well. Watching/reading them all back to back was an interesting way to see how ( Read more... )

Dwarfs I highly recommend "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" - by Mike Brown, for anyone interested in planets and dwarf planets. I heard about this book from Bookshop Santa Cruz's most recent quarterly newsletter and bought it as soon as it came out. I had planned to read it between yesterday and Thursday but couldn't put it down ( Read more... )