debetesse

Someone linked to this on b.org, and I watched it and thought it was cool.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

It's a video about how happiness works.

Hey, all.

I'm signing up for Etsy (I have stuff from out of my grandma's basement to sell) and they ask if someone referred me. I don't know if you get anything, but if you want to have referred me, let me know, and I'll give you credit

Also, if anyone collects Melmac, I have a bowl I'll be selling, but I'll give you first dibs.

I just got my tickets to NYC for Spring Break (Last full week in March). I'll be there from Monday through Saturday morning, which is good, as I have several people to see. If you believe that you are, should be, or would like to be one of those people, let me know.

Now, if I can just get through the 2 weeks between now and then.

I've been thinking thinky job thoughts lately, and there was a thought that I thought that I thought I should share and see what other people thought.

I do not wish to be without health insurance. As an unmarried person, this, practically speaking, pretty significantly limits my career choices at this juncture. If I wanted to pursue a field of work where my employer did not provide health insurance, I would either need to make enough to pay for my own (not likely) or get a second job where I would get health benefits.

And then I had this thought: how many other people have the same thoughts? ( It can't just be me. )

I have a draft. POV and tense don't seem to shift horribly, and there is a beginning, middle, and end. I will now go hippo a beta.

You remember how Lost started and was all cool-looking, and I watched for a couple of years and then broke up with the show, because it kinda sucked and the sex wasn't even that good.

I think I may end up in the same sort of relationship with Fringe. I didn't hate the pilot, and I know it's not going to be as good as it looks like it could be, but it looks like it could be good.

The vampires finally took my blood! (My iron was too low the last several times) And they gave me a hat!

I was reading Newsweek while I was there, and, as a person who gets her news primarily through the radio, was particularly struck by this image.

I did laundry!

My toenail seems to be staying put, although it's still purple. More updates as this story develops (I anticipate that it will be cool-looking when it half grows out)

My too-big-for-me Hi-top Chucks are great for when I have a bruised toenail, as they've got lots of space in the toe.

I'm doing a reading at church on Sunday, and I found something in Caroline Kennedy's "A Patriot's Handbook" (a really nice all-in-one of American writing about America. They even have lyrics from 1776 in there). I was emailing the organizer what it was, and thought, since it's not terribly well-known, I'd send a link with the text (It's from 1940, so surely it's out there). You know what you shouldn't google? white freedom. It does not turn up E.B. White's essay "Freedom", at least, not without wading through many other, less Unitarian-friendly results.

I have watched all of Season 1 of Burn Notice and The Riches (why is Season 2 not on the Internets! Why? Woe!), and have discovered that CBS has Star Trek TOS on their website, which will allow me to plow through episodes even faster then Netflix, thus assisting me in my quest to run out of television.

Ok, so Ianto stopped booting.

I got him to boot from the install disc.

He can't see his hard drive.

Clearly the issue is (at least, and pleasepleaseplease only) the hard drive.

So, I need to get, and install, an new hard drive.

And then see what, if anything, I can recover from the current one if I put it in a new housing, or send it out to professional-type people.

Which (inshallah) will cost me muchmuch less than a new computer, and my tax refund should cover most of it.

Not cast.

Really probably for the best, what with schedule and all that.

Still somewhat disappointing.