'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
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.
Aren't Jewish folks only about 2% of the U.S. population? That being the case 8 or 9 in the House as a whole would be representative, and I wouldn't be at all surprised for the majority to fall on the Democrat side.
According to wikipedia, there are currently 24 Jewish members of the House of Representatives, and 23 of them are Democrats. [link]