1. Chrystal said in last week’s Monday Mission that the chore she dreaded most was having to “fold and put away clothes.” What regular chore(s) do you dread the most? Cleaning my room. Or trying to find room for the clothes that are clean.
2. Have you ever tried any of the “tabbed” browsers like MyIE2, Safari or Mozilla Firebird? Do you like it better than a one-window browser? How come? Never tried them as I don’t have the newest operating system…can’t wait for OS X Panther. Like I’m really gonna get a computer then. Ah well. I can dream.
3. I was told last night that normal people don’t spend as much time on the computer as I do. That if I’d devote that energy toward something else, anything else, I could have probably cured cancer by now. I don’t think my time is wasted when I am on-line or otherwise working on the PC, but maybe it really is more time than so-called “normal’ people. Do you ever get criticized for being on the computer too much? How much time do you spend on the PC and/or on-line? Is it too much time are or do they just not “get” us? I do spend too much time on the computer. Just have too much stuff I want to do. And people to talk to on AIM…Some people don’t get it. My mom doesn’t get it. She doesn’t think it should take a long time to look at things with a dial-up connection. eh. I spend about two hours every night online at least. More on the weekends.
4. One of the phrases I notice every week when read in the job listings is “must be a highly motivated self-starter..” I have no idea what that means. To me it sounds like what they really want to say is “must be able to take a lot of crap and not complain.” That could be why I don’t get many second interviews. In your opinion, what is a “self-starter?” Are you a “self-starter?” Eh. Don’t want to say no cause then people won’t hire me 😉 I tend to be more comfortable when people tell me what to do rather than making my own schedule up. Regimented work seems to be the best for me. But I like having the time to complete it in my own way. Pretty bad, I suppose. Wish I was a self-starter, someone who knows what they want and how to get it and what to do to get to the next level. I hope I become that someday.
5. Let’s take that thought one step further: Write a Job Ad that describes you perfectly (as you are now, not as your “ideal” self) as well as the ideal job you’d like to get paid for doing. Now: Looking for someone to give instructions to and let them run with it. Give you detailed directions and won’t look over your shoulder. Something related to the sciences. No lab meetings. So the ideal would be: ISO female to work on editing new fantasy books and/or illustrating covers. Deadlines often but enough free time to write your own boook. Work on the website and look for new writers to recruit.
6. As you may know, I have (Adult)ADD in a bad way, severe even. Although I’d very much like to be rid of it, I don’t take meds for it because they made me very irritable and very unpleasant to be around. Do you take medications on a regular basis, or ever attempted to? Have they caused any side effects? Is it worth enduring them for the benefit you receive from the medication? When I was in school I took medicine for ADD. I think it helped me, at least in the mornings, to concentrate on class and not how tired I was. It made my stomach a little jumpy and my mouth really dry, but it was worth it to get an A in a 9 am class. Other than vitamins I don’t take any other medications on a regular basis.
7. Some things should just stay in the past, you know? I’ve found many memories are better as memories. When you try to re-live them they never seem to be able to live up to the memory. Maybe we glamorize them over time. Or maybe they were as good as we think, but something from “now” gets in the way and you just can’t get past it. What moment from the past have you tried to re-live that has fallen short of the memory? Um. I honestly can’t think of anything right now. Pretty much whatever I’ve really wanted to do for a while is good whenever you do it. Although sometimes (rarely) rereading a book is not as good as the first time through. But most of the time I can reread a book hundreds of times and I can still remember the awe I felt the first time I read a particular passage or finished a really good book. I love to read, did you guess?
BONUS: Didn’t your mama tell you life is too good too waste? I hope I’m not wasting my life. That would suck.
