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rest in peace Monday, Aug 31 2009
Laziness Makes Me a Better Employee Sunday, Aug 2 2009
1 9:52 am
I’m sitting at a laundromat at 9:30 on a Sunday morning. I have a washer and dryer of my own, but after looking at the roughly 5 loads of towels before me, my motivation gave way to laziness and I decided a quick trip to the laundromat was a much more efficient option. Seriously, do I look like the kind of girl who would repeatedly climb mountains of stairs to do load after load of laundry when she could pop a few quarters into a machine and do everything at once, all the while spending her waiting time surfing the web and putzing on Facebook? Certainly not. This happens to me all the time at work as well. Instead of taking the long way to do something, I will create an extra report, write down a few extra numbers, or maintain an additional graph, just to save some time in the long run. Some people call it laziness; I call it efficiency.
“I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life.” Wednesday, Sep 17 2008
Reflection 8:19 am
Maybe it’s the falling leaves or the falling temperature, but autumn always becomes a time for reflection. Today my reflection is built in, a memory from 2 years ago that still makes me cringe every time I hear a motorcycle rev. At one time, friends gathered, coming and going at all hours but never really leaving. Now time passes but hearts don’t forget, faces remember the streams of tears, and for one 24 hour period it’s September 2006 all over again.
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” – Charles F. Kettering Wednesday, May 21 2008
It’s summertime, and that means time for summer reading. This summer, as always, I welcome suggestions on rounding out my reading list. Last summer I was all about the classics. Jack Kerouac. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. This summer I’m focusing on the future, instead of the past. So two things: 1) how our existence will be in the time ahead and 2) bettering myself for the future.
I started, and am nearly halfway through, “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” by Daniel H. Pink. It’s about how the Industrial Age favored left-brain dominated thinking – analysis, calculation, sequence – and how the new age we’re in, the Conceptual Age, favors right-brain dominated thinking – innovation, creativity, design. Jobs are quickly heading overseas or being replaced by computers, and the way to keep your job is to bring something to the table a computer or underpaid foreigner can’t – creativity.
Don’t worry; it’s not an argument for the dismissal of logic. Rather, it’s a case for both left- and right-brained dominated thinking to be a part of our everyday existence. Not just utility and function, but beauty and experience. This especially appeals to me, as I am part of a generation who doesn’t just want to make a phone call, we want a full experience with our phones – customizing with colors and ringtones and music to our hearts desires. We don’t just want to own a pair of shoes, we want them branded with our own designs and wording.
It’s the future.
“i am so scene, with my dinosaur shirt and my polka dot headband and my short choppy black hair and my cigarettes and my obnoxious attitude <3 kiss my ass kthxbai see you at the hardcore show tomorrow.”* Monday, May 19 2008
Observations and Random 11:46 am
Have you ever heard of being “Scene”? It refers to subcultures and movements, mostly centered on the alternative music scene. “Scenesters” are people “on the scene.” I think for most of them, it has just as much to do with the look and fashion as it does with the music. These people are usually elitists with extreme superiority complexes.
In my random exploration of the Internet, I came across this handy website called wikiHow, which is a “is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual.” (Go there – I promise it will be hours of fun.) So I’m exploring wikiHow and what do I come across but an article titled “How to Be a Scene Kid.” I couldn’t believe how accurate it was (and also, how many “Scenesters” I knew.) So I give you the article.
Special Notes:
- Pay special attention to the part about how scene kids take pictures of themselves. Then reference your own Facebook page and notice any of your friends who have several photo albums of themselves and their friends, looking “scene.”
- Just to make it clear, I am NOT scene. At all. Not even a little bit. And honestly, I think people who do the things mentioned below are, well, let’s just say that I re-wrote this sentence many times and I’ll simply say that they are not my particular favorites.
- Question: Does anyone know anyone who is “scene” that is not between the ages of about 13 to 22? I see a lot of scenesters around, but they tend to be on the youthful side, very angry at their dads and often with nothing to do on a Tuesday afternoon. Are there 40 year-old scenesters out there? 50 year olds?
How to Be a Scene Kid
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
While a contemporary term for hipster or bohemian and other insiders of art related movements, scene kids are also associated with listening to screamo, techno, punk rock, indie rock, and hip hop, or other forms of unconventional music. If you want to be a scene kid, here are some suggestions to help you along your way…(Click title to read entire article.)
*Title quote from UrbanDictionary.com.
