February 2012
6 posts
“Work teams have shrunk and workloads and pressures have grown. Companies are asking their workers to be more innovative and creative — and at the same time more efficient. It’s a recipe for paralysis.”
-Maybe You’re Overwhelmed
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here’s hoping sxsw ends up being a cathartic experience.
called in sick to go to a job interview
“Culture educates the emotions. It consists of narratives, holidays, symbols, and works of art that contain implicit and often unnoticed messages about how to feel, how to respond, how to divine meaning.”
The Social Animal, David Brooks
Refreshing to hear from colleagues that they don’t see me working in the government for long.
January 2012
9 posts
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I’ve spent the better part of the past year trying to find a fix. Every one I meet ends up making me feel a little bit lonelier.
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Does listening to our music when I miss him, make me miss him more? Or maybe listening/crying is cathartic, and I’ll gradually start feeling better.
I’ll still just keep clicking “next” on shuffle.
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TICKETS TO THE TROPICS
LETS DO THIS
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Ilyas spent six hours cooking for me
Lamb karahi, chicken karahi, potato bhujia, eggplant bhurta, raita, wine, wine, wine…
“The most important idea I’ve come to internalize in the last six months is that getting what I want means that I have to consistently focus on how to get what I want and stop allowing my mind to rationalize what I don’t have.”
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
December 2011
5 posts
i’m curious about everything today, yet terribly sleep deprived. this makes for a head that hurts.
home=overrated
it’s reached the point where my parents are starting to annoy me so much i need to leave the house at 9 in the morning.
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Intermittent naps, 11 glasses of water, not even setting foot outside the house all day. Late-20s friends are rubbing their age off on me.
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Stephen: i saw a bumper sticker today that read, "Smile. Your mom chose life."
Me: cute. did you smile?
Stephen: No. I tried to understand the philosophical ramifications of such a viewpoint.
It collapses because it presupposes that a nonexistent "entity" could experience regret at not existing.
Which is of course silly.
So i smiled at that instead.
November 2011
3 posts
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Me: life in the newsroom...
there is sort of a constant stream of things for me to shake my head at
or laugh at, out of incredulity
which is not necessarily bad
because it keeps me entertained
ok....back to work
Dino: thing about news world is that it can desensitize you from harsh reality. these diversions are almost mandatory.
October 2011
4 posts
on facebook. →
“Shouldn’t people have the option to escape their pasts, or at least aspects of their pasts, if they’re hindering their personal development? Obviously there are degrees of the latter ideal — but I feel like the idea of having your whole life at your fingertips can be a bit of a trap, and can cause old patterns to persist for longer than they should. Refashioning oneself, and embarking...
Cute things that I support
Winks in the office
European cheek-kisses
September 2011
6 posts
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“In an environment where leadership is flopping around like fish out of water, it’s best to maintain lateral connections. That’s where innovation gets in. It’s leadership by preeminence and functionality.”
-Dino
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“… But then I came to realize the intoxicating freedom of living without long-term plans.”
August 2011
6 posts
Finding the right images is never easy. “Pushing the throttle up to high when the siren comes on.” “Loud enough to make the zippers on our windbreakers vibrate.” These are tiny, difficult and beautiful things.
A snippet from the review of the review of the Tom Petty vs. Michele Bachmann article.
vacation status: imminent and very necessary.
“Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the...
“Dreams seem to exist to make sure that I never get to a place too far on the...”
– Stephen
“memory is a liar and the future is empty speech. the surest way to be honest is...”
July 2011
10 posts
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It’s usually a dirt road that leads to the diamond mine.
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I’m sure treating him with more respect right now than he ever gave me.
endless tears. i keep thinking it can’t get worse, but then it does.
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“Congratulations: You have committed a perfect crime. You understand completely that Millennials who work in the media don’t pay attention to their surroundings, because they’re either wrapped up in themselves or wrapped up in their cell phones. (This is a distinction without a difference.)”
-Dave Weigel’s memo to the thief who robbed him the other night.
Consolation for sticking to DC for the past two years: making some of the best friends I’ve ever had.
June 2011
1 post
I dream of people I knew in times past. Where memories, like rivers, once stopped at the dam, now they spread massively and powerfully wide as the ocean, and I a panicked rower am adrift in unnavigable waters.
—stephen