Today

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Me: Get to work! Now! (yep, I yell at myself; this is what happens when you don't have a boss to do it for you).

Also me: Well I can't unless I have a clean kitchen...and a freshly baked banana bread.

wtf happened to my productivity?

That being said, I'm using this reciepe from Orangette and it's bomb.

Now back to work.

Hairstyles

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Dear sir playing with rattail,

Don’t.
It’s more upsetting than the violent/vaguely pornographic movie you’re watching in the middle of the library.

Sincerely,
Your fellow library patron

Current Events

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I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't know this New Zealand oil spill had happened.

and I'm even more embarrassed to admit that the only reason I figured it out was because I did an internet search for penguin sweaters.

It's been a strange week....

Wastin' Time

This weekend I spent an inordinate amount of time on the couch. And yes, that is said with pride. Lately I've been in hiberation mode and fighting it. But not this weekend. After first complaining bitterly about having to hang out at a fun wine bar with people who like me and then being (aptly) described as in a February state of mind in October, I decided to give in to hibernation like woah.

Rather then eat too much and curl up in a cave I decided to hibernate by embracing the fun that is pinterest (yes I know I'm late to the party, like real late. Like it might already be time to start packing up food and consider heading elsewhere, but I'm here) and watched an almost (almost!) embarressing amount of Parks and Rec. That ish is funny.

Helping my desire to remain completely motionless on the couch is the fact I'm back in the job search like crazy. After recently meeting with a recruiter who inspired no confidence ("so how exactly does this twitter thing work??") I've picked up the applications on my end. This means lately there's been a lot more time spent figuring out how to coach my experience in terms that will be wildly impressive.So lots of words like "facilitate" and "collaborative nature" are being dropped over here. Yep, it's as exciting as it sounds.

And now for your enjoyment here are some of the things that I found, want, and pinned:

This is hard

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Writing polite, yet friendly e-mails is hard.

Getting the line right between fun and professional without sounding like a stick in the mud or like you're just going to sit at a desk and gossip all day is feeling really tricky right now.

Is an exclamation mark too young looking? Do I say thanks so much? thank you for your time? or just split the difference with thanks for your time?

Maybe it's just because I got up at 6:30 (okay fine seven), but right now writing three complete sentences if feeling real hard. merg

Right Now

Things are kinda crazy right now.

Crazy in that whole, life is short and confusing and sad and what the heck are you doing kind of way. Yeah it's a big kind of crazy.

So I'm giving myself permission to stay hidden away. To fake sickness and stay at home watching re-runs of "America's Next Top Model" and "New Girl" (j'dore Zooey Deschanel). I'm giving myself space to try some new things and not try and explain it all away to anyone, not even myself. We'll see how it goes.

Who You Gonna Call...

At times this job just gets plain odd. Did you know the government lists paranormal investigator as a legitmate vocation?

No? Yeah me either until assigned to write about it for work.

Needless to say I've been listening to this all morning-


and now I'm kinda sorta obsessed.

Also I found this question on a paranormal investigator (ghost busting?) chat room:

What would a girl think if sometimes at night her boyfriend gets scared of ghosts and hides under the covers?with a flashlight and bat? I only get paranoid about ghosts a few times a year. I’m in my early 20’s. Is this normal? Would a woman tolerate this or is even doing this once a dealbreaker? And yes, I realize ghosts are probably not real and I’m too old for this.
Ladies? Anyone want to answer that for the poor guy?