i think this might have to happen across the street in like 4 minutes. no avoiding it.That photo alone has just put a smile on my face…ahhh the joys of sugar.
Ooh, I so know what would get you out of the funk. Baking cupcakes and bringing them to me at work. Huh, huh?
This just reminds me of a perfect spring day…although today is not so perfect.
Seriously, what’s going on with the weather? It iz doing it wrong.
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
When you mention your ‘followers’ around non-tumblr people and sound like a cult leader
(via bellavita)
None of us do. That’s why we’re on Tumblr.
(via somethingchanged)
This is exactly how I feel today. I am so, so ridiculously tired.
Yeah, ditto. Especially since happy hour yesterday turned into happy 6 hours.
Why do women have such a hard time moving past their own jealousy in the workplace? I have had several female managers since I started working at 16, and they were horrible to work with because their management style seemed to be shaped only by their rabid insecurities.
On to the catalyst for this rant- I was just pulled into a meeting and told to not mention anything I am working on for our director because his secretary has apparently expressed fear for her job. Some back story- I do not want her job, and would not accept it should it be offered to me. Everyone here knows that. She is also telling everyone she is retiring within a year (she’s almost 60). She obviously has no aspirations to be promoted, so there is no logical reason for her to be insecure about the work I’m doing. Her boss merely gives me things because he likes the work I do for him and she doesn’t excel at anything computer-related. I have no problem keeping quiet, but I am just so fed up with the female lack of confidence phenomenon.
I’m not an ardent feminist, but the petty jealousy is detrimental to women gaining ground in the workplace. Why can’t our generation be the one to change that- put all our focus on our own work and leave the insecurity at the door? Or better yet, remember the quote that is on my refrigerator: “You’re already talented or you wouldn’t be in the room. So just go and do the work”. (George Wolfe).
“In public discourse, the leading symptom of educational romanticism is silence on the role of intellectual limits even when the topic screams for their discussion. Try to think of the last time you encountered a news story that mentioned low intellectual ability as the reason why some students do not perform at grade level. I doubt if you can. Whether analyzed by the news media, school superintendents, or politicians, the problems facing low-performing students are always that they have come from disadvantaged backgrounds, or have gone to bad schools, or grown up in peer cultures that do not value educational achievement. The problem is never that they just aren’t smart enough.”
Charles Murray. From here.
Educational Romanticism is something I wasn’t really aware of. I didn’t know there was such a controversial argument going on about it. This article is incredibly informative and interesting.
aja:
Dooce on the Today Show, showing a lot more poise and grace than her naysayer interviewers, who seem to think that if someone has your kid’s picture it is equivalent to having a set of keys to your home.
I love Dooce so much and of course watched this interview. What bothers me most is that Kathe Lee Gifford blatantly exploited her children on tv for over a decade. Pot, kettle.
“No celebrity does anything, really. Unless you’re a famous athlete who actually physically does something, like, how much work is reading lines from a script? We’re improv TV personalities. That’s way harder.”
“Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated. Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated. Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe. Somehow torture is tolerated. Somehow lying is tolerated. Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense. Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world. Somehow a narrative is more important than reality. Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.”
Adorable.
“Phone sex is the dumbest thing in the world. It’s not sex. It’s like calling a restaurant and asking them to describe their food. That’s not the same thing as eating.”
