Just an hour more and I can finally go home, harvest my cabbages, chat with my boyfriend, and spend the rest of the evening with Henry James.
Happy weekend, everyone!
Happy weekend, everyone!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Dress Addiction
Thursday, July 2, 2009
I don’t know what got into me. I think I overshopped for clothes last month. Four dresses and two blouses – all bought on sale at different times and in different places last month – are now hanging in my closet. I haven’t even worn most of them.
I ask myself, why do we buy things we don’t really need just because they are on sale? It’s like our mental faculties go zero once we see those blaringly glaring, willpower-testing and consumption-inducing numbers: 50-70% off.
I now vow not to step inside the mall for the next few months.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Changing Priorities
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Priorities often change suddenly throughout the day. If you are asked to quickly do another task, how does that affect your mood?
I usually ask that question to our applicants. It won’t affect them much. That’s their usual answer. But then again, what they say may differ from how they’d actually feel.
With priorities constantly in flux is how a typical day at work goes for me. As soon as I start working on something, I immediately get summoned to work on something else - something that calls for more immediate attention. The textbook I’m editing gets squeezed in between interviews and meetings; the research project I’m working on gets interrupted when suddenly I need to write an article, a contract or some other communication. All these and yet I’m guilty of making time to write for my blog. (Just like now, they’re calling me to attend a meeting so I need to continue writing this later.)
I don’t call it multi-tasking. It’s more like rapidly shifting your focus from one thing to another and maintaining the quality of your work without freaking out. It gets really distracting sometimes, particularly when I cannot give my full attention to the work I’m supposed to be really doing; but since it happens to me almost every day, it’s something I have not only grown used to but also learned to enjoy.
I usually ask that question to our applicants. It won’t affect them much. That’s their usual answer. But then again, what they say may differ from how they’d actually feel.
With priorities constantly in flux is how a typical day at work goes for me. As soon as I start working on something, I immediately get summoned to work on something else - something that calls for more immediate attention. The textbook I’m editing gets squeezed in between interviews and meetings; the research project I’m working on gets interrupted when suddenly I need to write an article, a contract or some other communication. All these and yet I’m guilty of making time to write for my blog. (Just like now, they’re calling me to attend a meeting so I need to continue writing this later.)
I don’t call it multi-tasking. It’s more like rapidly shifting your focus from one thing to another and maintaining the quality of your work without freaking out. It gets really distracting sometimes, particularly when I cannot give my full attention to the work I’m supposed to be really doing; but since it happens to me almost every day, it’s something I have not only grown used to but also learned to enjoy.
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