Happy (Belated) Anniversary to Me!
Actually, I recently had TWO anniversaries — October 3rd marked my third year with my company (the longest time I've ever been at any job since college!), and October 4th marked the fourth year since I started the frogg files.
Where, oh where, does the time go? I ask you.
On another note, I'm sitting here at a coffee shop tonight, trying to come up with some sort of funny anecdote or witty something-or-other to blog about, but I've truly got nothing. My mind is about as close to blank as it ever gets. Which actually isn't all that blank, but tonight everything in there is such a jumble and I'm too tired to untangle it all for the sake of any one thread that might yield a way out of the labyrinth of boringness my poor blog somehow stumbled into. I guess I'm still recovering from the end-of-semester burnout. I don't remember the last time I felt so drained, actually. Well, no, that's not true. I do. It was right about the time I started this blog. How ironic.
In fact, if I recall correctly, I think I started this blog in a vague attempt to cure my burnout, or at least process through it. (More irony!)
But anyway, I'm interested to see what this coming year will bring. I sense a change on the horizon... and frankly, I want one. I think it's about time.
Where, oh where, does the time go? I ask you.
On another note, I'm sitting here at a coffee shop tonight, trying to come up with some sort of funny anecdote or witty something-or-other to blog about, but I've truly got nothing. My mind is about as close to blank as it ever gets. Which actually isn't all that blank, but tonight everything in there is such a jumble and I'm too tired to untangle it all for the sake of any one thread that might yield a way out of the labyrinth of boringness my poor blog somehow stumbled into. I guess I'm still recovering from the end-of-semester burnout. I don't remember the last time I felt so drained, actually. Well, no, that's not true. I do. It was right about the time I started this blog. How ironic.
In fact, if I recall correctly, I think I started this blog in a vague attempt to cure my burnout, or at least process through it. (More irony!)
But anyway, I'm interested to see what this coming year will bring. I sense a change on the horizon... and frankly, I want one. I think it's about time.
posted by grackyfrogg @ 9:18 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:14 AM ,
JerryNJ said...
You could attempt to write about happiness and about how that concept relates to you.
If you were to crunch the term "happiness" into Google News' search engine, it seems that this fleeting subject appears to be of reader interest across the world.
Very likely, it may have to do with the very recent worldwide fiscal uncertainty.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/how_to_be_happy_research_shows.html
A complimentary set-up piece from the same periodical is this quote....."University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman, the guru of positive psychology (the study of positive emotion, character, and institutions), says psychology has focused for far too long on fixing our foibles.
We have developed a system of crutches for happiness -- drugs, chocolate, loveless sex, shopping, masturbation, and television, not necessarily in that order -- when we could achieve better mental health by exercising our personal strengths and virtues, he writes in his 2002 book, "Authentic Happiness."
Boy, am I glad I never attended U-Penn in Philadelphia. People's evaluation of happiness is very very limited.
Regards
*!*
At 8:19 AM ,
JerryNJ said...
Sorry, I forgot to provide the second link, and the first appears to be stymied by the formatting of this page.
Perhaps with this second post you can access both links:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/how_to_be_happy_research_shows.html
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2008/10/the_pursuit_of_happiness.html
Continued regards
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