I do not have the willpower to read the ego depletion article.

ION, RED TOENAILS! They make many things better.

Today is clean things off my desk day. big boss is back tomorrow and I need to have 2-4 reports on his desk and waiting for him. Right now I only have 1 ready.

If your ego is depleted and your executive functions can't prevent you from slacking off on the internets, here's a good time-waster:

H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions

Dear Howie,

Last week I received a “you probably don’t remember me” note from a man I went to a school dance with nineteen years ago. He is married and has three kids, but states he is not happy. What should I do?

Concerned Lady

Dear Concerned Lady: –

Although humankind has a yearning toward whatever is redolent of mystery and allurement, it is well that certain lacunae in our knowledge should remain forever unfilled. Your shadowy correspondent’s mention of the ill-regarded numbers nineteen and three recalls an unutterable experiment performed on sticklebacks by the Swedish icthyologist Dalgaard. I dare not describe his observations, but he concluded that, the longer we can remain innocent of our place in the cosmos, the better it must augur for our mental integrity. He came to understand there was more meaning than is commonly supposed in the nebulous half-inscriptions found on abandoned wharves — while who knows what malign significance underlies the latest findings on the growth of angiosperms, or the cycle of the solar spots? What of the transgalactic pulsings that have cost more than one astronomer his powers of reasoning? I have heard it whispered that the imprints found on Dalgaard’s pillow, toward the end, resembled the fronds of a kind of bracken previously unknown to botany. The muffled clattering sounds from my roof impel me hastily to conclude,

Yrs most cordially & sincerely, – HPL.

Wow, I have wasted almost the whole morning! I did buy the ridiculous eyebrow thing.

In news of how I am middle-aged or something, I just realized I can't go to the library fundraiser (with Lee Child!!) next week, because that's the day of my cooking class! Ah well.

that ego depletion shit is interesting.

That is now going to be my favorite excuse. Sorry, but I had to hold my tongue in the 9am meeting with [asshole colleague #1]. I no longer have any willpower. You will bear the brunt of my lack of willpower and sharp tongue.

Enjoy.

Matilda has a great deal of insight in the vampires, doesn't she? So cute.

If the problem is your brain needing more glucose, it seems to me that you could increase your willpower simply by eating more chocolate.

This has been my answer for several years now. For reals! I keep a bar of dark chocolate in my desk at work.

big boss is back tomorrow and I need to have 2-4 reports on his desk and waiting for him. Right now I only have 1 ready.

One down, one to go!... what..?

Sorry, but I had to hold my tongue in the 9am meeting with [asshole colleague #1]. I no longer have any willpower. You will bear the brunt of my lack of willpower and sharp tongue.

As a parent who has to deal with needy kids and a professor who has to deal with similarly needy college students, I have found this to be true. I can be all supportive and patient with one or the other, but it can be hard to deal with both in one day, esp on days when I conference with students as that really takes a lot out of me.

So Eric Cantor discusses that anti-semitism is a problem in the House GOP.

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So, the article above has this phrase that somehow shocked me:

Today, Cantor, the only Jewish House Republican,

There is only one Jew in the House GOP? Out of 242 people? ONE?

There is only one Jew in the House GOP? Out of 242 people? ONE?

Doesn't really surprise me. In general, Jews are pretty overwhelmingly Democrats.

Hil,

I guess that makes sense, but damn.

I wonder what the impact is on people with ADD, who already have problems with executive functioning. Probably just magnifies it.

Not sciencey, but in my totally anecdotal first-person experience, it makes total sense. Executive function/focus/will/whatchamacallit is absolutely a spoon.