Thank you. I swear, I need Pioneer Woman recipes only -- a picture for every step!

I like McNuggets too much to click that link. Every now and then I get a McNugget craving.

Tomatoes are unfair. Latitude or longitude, says I!

I have seen many hot dogs being made. To avoid mechanically separated meat and assorted organs, go with "all beef" or "all turkey" hot dogs. The same is true of bologna, only more so.

We turned the heat on yesterday, and within half an hour, got this: [link].

I did't even have to click on that link to know what it was.

Love your bedroom msbelle.

I was feeling bus sick on the city bus this afternoon. It's an hour later and I'm still feeling woozy. I hope this isn't the beginning of something.

I don't know how you could have a list of the prettiest bridges and not include the Millau Viaduct.

The new Bay Bridge will look like this. A definite improvement.

Hey, it worked! I have an interview on Wednesday, for a court advocate position at a DV shelter (I've done this for two other shelters.) I'm not as interested in it as I am in in a couple of other jobs, but the pay is very decent, and JOB. I wouldn't have applied for it if I had not like the other CA jobs I have had.

So YAY! Board-ma at 1045am Wednesday, yo!

We're supposed to get this [link] ...er, sometime.

A very interesting New Yorker article on procrastination: [link]

Viewed this way, procrastination starts to look less like a question of mere ignorance than like a complex mixture of weakness, ambition, and inner conflict. But some of the philosophers in “The Thief of Time” have a more radical explanation for the gap between what we want to do and what we end up doing: the person who makes plans and the person who fails to carry them out are not really the same person: they’re different parts of what the game theorist Thomas Schelling called “the divided self.” Schelling proposes that we think of ourselves not as unified selves but as different beings, jostling, contending, and bargaining for control. Ian McEwan evokes this state in his recent novel “Solar”: “At moments of important decision-making, the mind could be considered as a parliament, a debating chamber. Different factions contended, short- and long-term interests were entrenched in mutual loathing. Not only were motions tabled and opposed, certain proposals were aired in order to mask others. Sessions could be devious as well as stormy.” Similarly, Otto von Bismarck said, “Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.” In that sense, the first step to dealing with procrastination isn’t admitting that you have a problem. It’s admitting that your “you”s have a problem.

If identity is a collection of competing selves, what does each of them represent? The easy answer is that one represents your short-term interests (having fun, putting off work, and so on), while another represents your long-term goals. But, if that’s the case, it’s not obvious how you’d ever get anything done: the short-term self, it seems, would always win out. The philosopher Don Ross offers a persuasive solution to the problem. For Ross, the various parts of the self are all present at once, constantly competing and bargaining with one another—one that wants to work, one that wants to watch television, and so on. The key, for Ross, is that although the television-watching self is interested only in watching TV, it’s interested in watching TV not just now but also in the future. This means that it can be bargained with: working now will let you watch more television down the road. Procrastination, in this reading, is the result of a bargaining process gone wrong.