you know i’m doing homework when…

i start waxing philosophical about this and that.

here’s a quote from today’s reading from leadership and the new science: discovering order in a chaotic world

“Fragmentation is now very widespread. Not only through society but also in each individual, this leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.  The notion that all these fragments is separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. “

~david bohm

think, think, think

(most of this post was written on tuesday and i didn’t feel like switching the “last night” and “today” so it’s off a day.)

last night, emily, nora, and i headed over to the discount theater in round rock for some movie delight.  and by delight, i mean tears. =P
we saw the time traveler’s wife.

i had read a little over half of the book for a club i dabbled in a while back so while i knew what was going on and the ultimate ending, the pages i didn’t read and the poetic license of the screenwriter left some mystery that provided for overall satisfaction.

i left the theater thinking about the duration of relationships, wondering if living a peaceful life could really be a choice, and hoping for more happy marriages in the world cause life is too short.

i also left with the mental reminder that starting my week with a movie should become more regular.  you see, when you buy three tickets on a monday night, they’re only 50 cents each. SCORE!

i interrupt your work day to say that i’m sorry

i’m sorry for interrupting and wasting your work time!
of course, you’re the one who came here to read it so i suppose you’re partially to blame.

last night, my parents buzzed by chris’ place to bring me a “sorry-your-day’s-so-sucky” coffee and hugs. since they were still there as he got home, chris invited them to stay for dinner. in the course of dinner conversation, after some explanation was given or something smart happened…i don’t know…maybe she was asking if he knew how to hack something again…i may not have been paying attention…but in the course of it all, my mom exclaimed that she liked that i dated geniuses. =)

though the first one broke the mold, most of the others who have caught my interest tend towards the brainy end. i’m sure it’s because they’re attracted to my own smarts, of course, of course…but it is what it is.

along with the territory, i’ve learned, seen, and heard about lots that i may not normally be exposed to.
like ieee’s spectrum magazine. when you date an engineer a tv repairman, you come to enjoy the articles in such a periodical since it’s the only one within reach from the potty.

as it was, yesterday, i found myself intrigued by the cover article’s description (“E-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity and our leisure”), and i soon found myself sucked in.

the article infoglut didn’t really mention twitter or facebook much. it focused more on extraneous emails that clog inboxes and steal time from “information workers” (engineer, dr, lawyer, etc), but it was interesting nonetheless.
and it made me wonder/think about several things:

twist of perspective

do you ever feel like a broken record?

my whole “dense lissie” category started cause i realized that i’m thinking and learning the same things over and over again.

and while it just occurred to me that i gave you a post on change a few weeks ago, for the past 24 hours it’s weighed on my mind so it’s what you get again.

like it.

remembering what matters

i just got home from breakfast at my mom’s house.

“but lissie”, you point out, “it’s almost 4 in the afternoon!”

yes, reader.  it is.

and as i was leaving her house, almost 5 hours later than i planned, i was kinda grumbling to myself.  (and, let’s just get it out there…i was grumbling to her as well.  mother’s get a lot of grumbling…sorry.)
i was all upset that i didn’t get to do the things i planned to do today.  important things like sort through dishes that i got from an old relative, blog, straighten up some things, lay out, and simply be selfish with any leftover time.  with chris’ encouragement and help in making more manageable lists, i’ve had a wonderfully productive week and i was hoping for some more of the same today.

instead…guess what i haaaaaad to do??!

question:

what kind of bear is best?