Exponential Ramblings

  Operation: Reclaim House from Nature and Beasties is running smoothly at the moment. There will always be work but I don't have to kill myself to get it done. I am enjoying reading a few books over the next two weeks and seeing what kind of fun I can get into. But for now, I will let you in on a conversation my left and right brain were having at some point this morning.  Right Brain (RB) Do... do doo... duh doo. Are we done with cleaning this stuff up yet? I'm bored! Left Brain (LB) Almost, almost. We're nearing lunch and we need a shower.  RB So what are we doing this afternoon? Something fun? Something creative? Something we haven't done before? LB You had fun this morning. I allowed you to about 45 minutes of playing your alto saxophone, waking up the neighbors, and such. RB *sigh* It wasn't enough. It's never enough.  LB But I received the signal from your lips that they were beginning to wear out. RB More! More!...

Yes! I can breathe for the next two weeks! Well, not really. I have to reclaim my yard from the jungles and my house from the beasts that roam about in it. I have only been home recently to sleep. That's it. I feel bad for not giving my fur babies as much time as I have my school work but that makes the time together more fun. I plan on catching up on a lot of reading, beginning with "  Lead With Purpose," "What's Math Got to Do With It? ," and my latest e-book from  Mike Allen  "Clockwork Pheonix 4" which is a collection of out of this world stories.   Besides rescuing my nest from the wrath of nature and her beasties, I plan on contacting someone I met at Mill Mountain Coffee and taking a drive to the Advanced Engineering Lab at Virginia Tech. They are working on some interesting underwater projects I'd like to check out.   Plus I had a very nice chat with Virginia Senator, John Edwards, this afternoon. We talked about everything from ...

  It appears, dear readers, that if something is going to happen in the strangest and most oddball ways, it will happen to me. My yard is the talk of my neighborhood right now. My grand maple tree fell during the last windy night. Thankfully, my car was fine but I could not get out of the driveway. So I took a nice 20 minute walk to my parents house to borrow my mom's car and get to school on time for my 8:30 AM exam. I made it on time. Then there was the Physics exam, coming home to clear up more of the driveway, finish working on my resume for class, study for my last class, and revise a paper I have been working on. At this point, I can't wait for Saturday to come around. It has been a fun week and full of surprises. I don't know how to describe it other than I feel like as though I am coming into my own. My life is never boring and I never want it to be boring. I only hope that I will one day meet someone who feels the same. Until then, I will enjoy my friends to the fu...

I have met Stephen Hawking but it was only a brief moment of time in the history of the universe.    It has been a tough week, friends. I had friends in the Boston Marathon and friends that just wanted to spend the day in Boston with their kids during Spring Break. Not only was it the last full week of classes for me but my attention remained vigilantly with my home state of Massachusetts. I am relieved that the suspects were killed or caught and that my New England family is safe.   Let me remind you, we are a tough lot, us Northerners. We don’t take anything for granted. Our lives run faster than a New York minute but nowhere near as fast as our tongues. We are the type that when a friend calls us, we don’t ask why, we help them bury the body and forget it ever happened. So when anything happens to a friend or family member, you can be sure that justice will be swift and mighty.   We are upstarts. We are not all liberal but we like to rock the boat s...

  Is there a perfectionist's anonymous meeting nearby because I need to get to one of those meetings. Perfectionists are a bunch of worry warts. We make excuses for beginning projects and more excuses before finishing them. Do you have one in your life or are you a perfectionist? And if you do/are, how do you cope with these excuses? I don't have the right tools to begin. I have plenty of time before it is due. I do my best work under pressure. I am fearful of the outcome.  I am afraid of what people will think of me.       These are just a few. It may sound easy to you to jump right in and do , but most perfectionists are not like that. We are afraid to take risks and we are afraid to embarrass ourselves. We are afraid of how outlandish our thoughts are and maybe afraid of not being considered normal.    Now that I am thinking about it, perfectionists are completely and totally imperfect in our rationalizations. People...