MENSA-PAUSE: A hot flash caused by deep, profound thinking. “I had a Mensa-pause during today’s math test.” (From the BuzzWhack newsletter) I needed that laugh. I overdid it over the weekend, and everything hurts even more than usual. I’m extremely…
Weekend Report
hope_evey, do you read hip_domestics? There was a post there just now that made me think of you 🙂 Current Mood: accomplished
Violent Tendencies & Poem
Channel your violent tendencies! And something completely different Telephone Repairman by Joseph Millar All morning in the February light he has been mending cable, splicing the pairs of wires together according to their colors, white-blue to white-blue violet-slate to violet-slate,…
Extracurricular Activities
Ack! The girl wants to get back to dance classes—perfectly reasonable. The girl will feel better if she moves more, and we’re completely in favor of that. Dance classes will also give her more social contacts. So we’re searching for…
Public School Problems
Adding to the “reasons to homeschool” file: City’s educrats can’t get it write Thank you for the link, sleepingwolf. I’m right there with you.
Please Read This
I’m ashamed to be an American today. Maher Arar: statement CBC News Online | November 4, 2003 The following statement was read by Maher Arar in Ottawa on November 4, 2003, less than one month after being released from prison…
PDA Pain
Grrr. I have to ship my PDA to Palm again. I’m having to hold it in the cradle for it to sync—otherwise the connection just isn’t solid enough. I tried two different cradles, so it is the PDA, not the…
Irrational Inherited Beliefs
I started thinking about shoulds after doing some reading about Rational Emotive Therapy and irrational beliefs. This first one is the irrational belief that is most difficult for me to shake.
Shoulds
What are your shoulds? What are the rules that you inherited? If you’ve discarded inherited shoulds what did you replace them with? How did you arrive at those guidelines for yourself? I’ll share my shoulds in a later post, but…
KingJames’ Birthday
Happy Birthday king_james!