Back maybe as long as a decade ago, we Girl Scouts of Central Texas offered a “Meeting in a Box.” Leaders could drive to one of the Service Centers (staff offices) and sign out an physical lidded storage box that contained all the stuff for a particular age’s troop meeting. Feathers, glue, foam cutouts—sure—but also […]
This morning happens to be as unstructured as yesterday morning, though (blessedly!) I’m accountable in the afternoon and evening. (Somewhere around 2pm yesterday I realized I’d slipped into a replay of “I Work From Home“… shudder.) So within my circumstantial structure I decided to (a) see whether I could avoid the pocket computer and (b) […]
As I waved my parents back to their home around the block, I laughed, “Now I can knuckle down and do my homework.” Instead, I picked up the pile of mail from yesterday. The stack I hadn’t sorted, because I get home from class so late. I sat down with it: circular>recycling, circular>recycling, circular-with-coupon>tear coupon, […]
The good news is that the strands of rain streaming from the sky outside the Student Lounge window mean that the oppressive sleepiness spreading from my sinus cavities has passed. Mostly. I wish I knew why pending rainstorms give me a knee-buckling case of the sleepies, because I don’t think this makes any sense. How […]
On the night the newest degree-seeking students at my seminary were formally enfolded into the community, the president pointed out that a seminary degree is not for an individual’s edification, but for the enrichment of that person’s community. This stung. Frankly, I hadn’t looked beyond the hunger of my mind and heart for the nourishment […]
INFJ: “I know I could make more money as a consultant, but I’m still in the government because I can’t be bothered with selling myself. I need a structure to support me.” —sidebar “Why Fs Are Underpaid,” p 71-72 of Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work, Based […]
I like the metaphor of quest. … [If you approach your work as a quest,] You’re working from a clear premise but you don’t yet know what the promise is. —Dr. Jason Fox, interviewed on The Great Work Podcast In a world shifting to Project Land, I find it disconcerting to be… let’s say… post-project […]
I’ve been propounding this theory lately. It’s empirical, in that I’ve developed it via observation—I’ve even collected my data over an extended time—a sort of longitudinal socio-psychological research project. But it was my A who crystalized it, and made it pithy: THEORY: Women are born with a finite amount of shits to give. When they’re […]
If the brain-wave transcription service long promised in science fiction we’lre actually here, I would have a thoughtful post for you now. Because I cooked up some decent ideas while on the acupuncture table today. OR if I had managed to keep up with my (Marty’s) belongings, I wouldn’t’ve had to spend an hour making […]
The route I take to school is an old-Austin kind of thing. I’ve been driving it since I first moved here in 1990, when I lived on the north edge of the big campus. My little campus is between the big campus and my former apartments, so slithering on this snaky little stub of a […]
