March 2012
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February 2012
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Centralization
Everyone’s freaking out at work. Big changes are coming down the pipeline. Apparently, the university will be centralizing many job functions - finance, HR and marketing.
Of course with centralization comes consolidation. And while this may be beneficial for the organization as a whole - lay offs are always a bummer.
So we are here today waiting for news. Who’s staying? Who’s...
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It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
Why are people made to feel ashamed for feeling sad? No one wants you to talk about it. People just want to hear that you’re doing fine. That you’re going to be alright.
I get that listening to someone go on and on about their problems is a downer. And in general, I try not to burden people with all the shit going on in my head. But, I don’t see the problem with acknowledging...
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Trying my best but failing
I keep getting migraines. Keep forgetting things, too. I’ve been careless. Scatterbrained. I can’t seem to stay on top of things. I’ve always had a gift for being attentive to details, but lately I’ve overlooked things that should have been obvious.
You know how when you’re functioning on very little sleep you feel like you’re going about your day in a kind of...
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Fish soup →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
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Shameless promotion
My friend’s Etsy shop is now up and running! And it features all the photos I took. She has some beautiful pieces, if you’re into earthy, natural looking jewelry.
Check it out.
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A post in which I ramble
You’re definitely not going to want to read this, so please scroll by. I promise I won’t be offended.
Just need to get some stuff out of my head. Helps me deal with it. In many ways this blog is like a journal for me and right now I just need to let it all out without worrying about who reads it.
In a bad head space right now. Short on patience. Frustrated. Angry. Tired....
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This is a post in which I feel sorry for myself
It’s fascinating how physically exhausting feelings can be. Lots is going on with my family. As a kid, I didn’t realize quite how dysfunctional my family really was. Now as an adult, I wonder how I’ve even made it as far as I have.
My family drains me. I want to run away from them. The problem is I care too much. Anyway. All the worrying, anger, and frustration of the last few...
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Don't give up
What makes some people give up? They become cynical and jaded. They don’t want to let anyone in. Friends. Lovers. No one. They supress their feelings. They guard their heart, unwilling to take any risks.
They say it’s because they’ve been hurt before. Burned too badly. Why let anyone else in? It’ll just happen again. And what for? It’s not worth it.
I don’t...
Waiting is a difficult game I'm not very good at.
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Morning blues
Feeling bummed this morning. My mom’s having trouble with the dialysis port again. She had a procedure done yesterday and since her blood pressure was so low - they couldn’t use anesthesia so they operated on her arm without any kind of anesthetic.
After cutting into her arm, they pulled out several blood clots. They stitched her back up and sent her on her way. She hadn’t eaten...
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Whippersnappers
So the other night I went to dinner with my husband and some of his class mates. I felt so old even though I’m only 34. Shut up. 34 is totally not old.
HOWEVER - these kids made me feel like I was 50. Seriously. Either I have an old soul or the younger generation is really different.
Some observations:
Texting (constantly) while having dinner is totally a thang
Young people don’t...
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day,...”
– Stephen Vincent Ben (via kari-shma)
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Be my butt?
Me: I don't want to make a heart for my boss.
Husband: Just make it look like a butt.
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work meme
I’m a communications manager at an academic medical center. I oversee marketing and public relations for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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We all hate our jobs
Society places entirely too much emphasis on careers as a source of happiness/self-worth. The older I get, the more I come to understand that while what you do for a living is a factor in how satisfied or happy you feel in life, and certainly it contributes to our sense of identity and even self-worth - for an overwhelming majority of people, a job is, well, just a job.
We come to work because we...
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Reflections
I don’t know if I’m the only crazy person who does this, but once in a while I go back and look at my archive - all the way back to my first post. Some of my entries make me cringe.
I whine a lot. I’m negative. I’m a drama queen. I wallow in my misery. And that’s all good, to some extent. For most of us tumblr is a place where we vent and talk about the things that...
“What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even...”
– Andreas Feininger (via life)