I have nothing profound to say, as if I ever do, but I just felt like I hadn't written anything on here in entirely too long. So, let's bring everybody up to date:
Current roommate was 8 days late with last month's rent, thus overdrafting me multiple times, so yeah, I'm very happy that this hellish year is almost over.
Job is amazingly boring, but...
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Current roommate was 8 days late with last month's rent, thus overdrafting me multiple times, so yeah, I'm very happy that this hellish year is almost over.
Job is amazingly boring, but...
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alexialexi:
Thanks for the response of my bitching. Adding a minor might define your studies but it never defines your mind. Adding the African Studies minor will only open more opportunities for you. Good Luck with the Redhed!!
Looking for apartments is a pain in the fucking ass. That's my current state of mind. I have a new roommate lined up(which is good since my last one is incapable of paying anything on time) but we just haven't found a place. We have however came up with a great few decorating ideas. First, our dining room table is going to be an air...
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eleutherophobia:
I'm extremely jealous of your dining room table.
I've had an interesting week. Got plowed on Thursday as part of a bachelor party. Performed that very wedding on Saturday as my first-time minister wedding. Was initiated into a very tight knit group of friends who never, and I mean never, accept outsiders after the reception. Assisted 8-10 members of said group of friends in becoming ministers online, which means that if anybody needs...
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I'm the most lax updater in the history of lax updaters. Not that anybody actually pays attention to what I write anyway, but still, I feel the need to apologize for my lack of updating for what feels like years. So, what has happened in the past...however long it's been? Let's see.
I got a new job. I'm now a student scanning assistant in the...
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I got a new job. I'm now a student scanning assistant in the...
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Women confuse me. I've never been able to figure out what makes them tick. This, of course, doesn't make me unique among my gender. In fact, if I had to estimate, I'd say that 99.9% of men never understand women in their lifetimes, and that .1% only gain understanding as part of some death bed epiphany. However, this does not keep me from trying to...
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I know that we live in a country where Global Warming is not "confirmed". It's "theory". Like that pesky theory of evolution. Or the theory of relativity. Granted, we have as much evidence for evolution as we do for gravity, when you think about it, but you don't hear Evangelicals saying that we can all fly. Or are they?
Anyways, I wanted to show you...
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Anyways, I wanted to show you...
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Life is odd. Why, you ask? I don't know, If I knew why life was odd I would be able to make a shitload of money with that answer, but it just is. And this is going to be random.
I can count the number of real-life friends I have on two hands, and close friends it goes down to one hand, but this fact...
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I can count the number of real-life friends I have on two hands, and close friends it goes down to one hand, but this fact...
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Wow. I haven't written anything here in a long ass time. For the record, I am not dead. Let's see. What has happened in Tanner's world in the past 2 months?
How sad is it that I have really nothing that has happened in the past 2 months?
I've got a job interview on Monday on campus. It's an office assistant job in some random...
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How sad is it that I have really nothing that has happened in the past 2 months?
I've got a job interview on Monday on campus. It's an office assistant job in some random...
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Things have become quite odd for me in the past few weeks. I'm not sure how to explain the weirdness either. I'll try to make some sense of it here.
First, my grandmother on my dad's side died last week, which led to myself and my brother going to Roswell, NM, which is a hellhole, to spend a weekend with a family that neither he...
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First, my grandmother on my dad's side died last week, which led to myself and my brother going to Roswell, NM, which is a hellhole, to spend a weekend with a family that neither he...
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cklarock:
Hey, thank you. Wanted to say that you did the non-creepy thing with the 19 year old (they're not all they're cracked up to be, even at your young age 
), and that you can act your way into the place you want to be.
Re: our Jayhawks-- my brother and I got tickets for the Nebraska game and went as a memorial/tribute for my mom. Our 'Hawks slipped a couple games because their biggest fan died, but we went to Allen Fieldhouse, brought her spirit, and well . . . you can see the results.
My uncle (father's side, but has known my mother for years and years) told me after the Missouri game that, "Where she is, the 'Hawks won those games by a point."
Thanks for the comment.
), and that you can act your way into the place you want to be.
Re: our Jayhawks-- my brother and I got tickets for the Nebraska game and went as a memorial/tribute for my mom. Our 'Hawks slipped a couple games because their biggest fan died, but we went to Allen Fieldhouse, brought her spirit, and well . . . you can see the results.
My uncle (father's side, but has known my mother for years and years) told me after the Missouri game that, "Where she is, the 'Hawks won those games by a point."
Thanks for the comment.
perfectly_flawed:
Happy B-day and St. Paddies Day!
I have returned to the wonderful world of Lawrence ahead of schedule. Well, at least ahead of schedule in days, but way the fuck late in timewise for today's schedule. I'm just grateful I've arrived at all.
Best thing about this Christmas: Tons of KU gear and a new motorcycle jacket that I was wanting, plus a $9000 money order that isn't technically a present...
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Best thing about this Christmas: Tons of KU gear and a new motorcycle jacket that I was wanting, plus a $9000 money order that isn't technically a present...
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cklarock:
In some martial arts they talk a lot about the flow state, particularly regarding swordsmanship and duels.
The western version of the idea is the province of performance psychology.
Here is a book on the topic. You were totally in a flow state when you drove out of the way of the semi. So it's not that you acted beyond yourself, in reality, you acted at the peak of yourself.
The western version of the idea is the province of performance psychology.
Here is a book on the topic. You were totally in a flow state when you drove out of the way of the semi. So it's not that you acted beyond yourself, in reality, you acted at the peak of yourself.
cklarock:
From The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:
Over and over again, as people describe how it feels when they thoroughly enjoy themselves, they mention eight distinct dimensions of experience. These same aspects are reported by Hindu yogis and Japanese teenagers who race motorcycles, by American surgeons and basketball players, by Australian sailors and Navajo shepherds, by champion figure skaters and by chess masters. These are the characteristic dimensions of the flow experience:
1. Clear goals: an objective is distinctly defined; immediate feedback: one knows instantly how well one is doing.
2. The opportunities for acting decisively are relatively high, and they are matched by one's perceived ability to act. In other words, personal skills are well suited to given challenges.
3. Action and awareness merge; one-pointedness of mind.
4. Concentration on the task at hand; irrelevant stimuli disappear from consciousness, worries and concerns are temporarily suspended.
5. A sense of potential control.
6. Loss of self-consciousness, transcendence of ego boundaries, a sense of growth and of being part of some greater entity.
7. Altered sense of time, which usually seems to pass faster.
8. Experience becomes autotelic: If several of the previous conditions are present, what one does becomes autotelic, or worth doing for its own sake.
Ahhh, the "joys" of holidays with the family. Only two things are able to make this time bearable. 1) I have come equipped with hours of music and movies to sequester myself away from everyone. 2) My laptop and wireless internet.
That's right, kids and kittens, I have returned to my grandmother's house in Southwest Kansas for the annual holiday gathering that most people call...
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That's right, kids and kittens, I have returned to my grandmother's house in Southwest Kansas for the annual holiday gathering that most people call...
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cklarock:
Ah, the family. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here, but we can't just not be there.
Congrats on the good grades!
Congrats on the good grades!
It has just dawned on me that in my last post I forgot to mention one movie that I truly enjoyed. Syriana. This movie is a good biased liberal view of the situation in the Middle East, and yes, I'm completely comfortable with it being biased and no, it doesn't make me love it any less or believe it any less.
This is my pathetic...
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cklarock:
Dude, when we went, there was a family with a 2 year old, a 4-year old, a 7-year old and a 9-year old. It sucked all the fun out of the movie for my friend Stephanie. She mostly sat and stewed.
Waaay to intense for the little guys, but a great movie. I don't know if it deserves all the critical dick-sucking it's been getting, but I think everyone is just glad to see Peter Jackson not bomb after the amazing LotR trilogy.
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I think it's only natural that you're going to have a bit of disconnect with 19-22 year olds. I'm a few years older than you are (I'm 35), but I can't imagine trying to make many friends in that age range. One or two rare individuals, sure, but by and large I don't care about the kind of crap that kids care about anymore.
Why don't I care? Because I've been there, done that, figured out it was dumb.
Waaay to intense for the little guys, but a great movie. I don't know if it deserves all the critical dick-sucking it's been getting, but I think everyone is just glad to see Peter Jackson not bomb after the amazing LotR trilogy.
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I think it's only natural that you're going to have a bit of disconnect with 19-22 year olds. I'm a few years older than you are (I'm 35), but I can't imagine trying to make many friends in that age range. One or two rare individuals, sure, but by and large I don't care about the kind of crap that kids care about anymore.
Why don't I care? Because I've been there, done that, figured out it was dumb.