I find myself saying this a lot lately. Also, I love Pearl Jam. I love beautiful songs, too.
I tried posting the video but the formatting was messed up and I was too lazy to figure out why, so...just go watch it yourself. And listen. Listen.
Pearl Jam - Just Breathe - Austin City Limits
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
If you want to stay in control, you have to stay on top
Or something like that. When I catch the exact quote again I'll fix it.
So, I bought a house. Wheee. It is mostly awesome. I'm still adjusting to expenses and stuff but it is mostly awesome. Oh, and it is mine. That's the real bonus.
Rob is back. That makes me happy. Very happy. Also, I don't intend to let him go again. ;)
Bret Hart is "back" too, back in the WWE world anyhow. I LOVE Bret Hart so no matter how temporary or how horrible the drama, I will be thoroughly engrossed in wrestling again. Yes, I am a woman in her mid-thirties. No, I don't care. I love Bret Hart. I'm sad to learn that he has a girlfriend...a 27 year old hussy apparently. Obviously he needs to be reminded of my existence. Last I knew he was still married. Hmph.
This is my last week of freedom for a while because I'll be supervising a practicum student for probably close to 8 weeks at work starting next Monday. I hope I survive. I'm already thinking that I made a mistake agreeing to do it. Let's hope not.
Random: I love Hugh Jackman. I do not love Christian Bale. Yes, I'm watching The Prestige. I love Nikola Tesla too, but that's only slightly relevant here. Great movie though, I really like it.
Well I had a lot of ideas when I decided to write this but they are all totally gone and in usual Heather fashion I've failed miserably.
Whatever, I'll try again tomorrow.
So, I bought a house. Wheee. It is mostly awesome. I'm still adjusting to expenses and stuff but it is mostly awesome. Oh, and it is mine. That's the real bonus.
Rob is back. That makes me happy. Very happy. Also, I don't intend to let him go again. ;)
Bret Hart is "back" too, back in the WWE world anyhow. I LOVE Bret Hart so no matter how temporary or how horrible the drama, I will be thoroughly engrossed in wrestling again. Yes, I am a woman in her mid-thirties. No, I don't care. I love Bret Hart. I'm sad to learn that he has a girlfriend...a 27 year old hussy apparently. Obviously he needs to be reminded of my existence. Last I knew he was still married. Hmph.
This is my last week of freedom for a while because I'll be supervising a practicum student for probably close to 8 weeks at work starting next Monday. I hope I survive. I'm already thinking that I made a mistake agreeing to do it. Let's hope not.
Random: I love Hugh Jackman. I do not love Christian Bale. Yes, I'm watching The Prestige. I love Nikola Tesla too, but that's only slightly relevant here. Great movie though, I really like it.
Well I had a lot of ideas when I decided to write this but they are all totally gone and in usual Heather fashion I've failed miserably.
Whatever, I'll try again tomorrow.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Houses
I'm in the market to buy a house. Sorta. Maybe. I think.
For several years I've been "looking" and thought I found the perfect place a time or two. For one reason or another they didn't work out and I'd give up and take a break and then start over.
So I've started over. Entirely. That is, I have elected to work with a new Realtor and loan officer. Fresh start. And hopefully get better guidance than I have in the past.
I'm going to see a few places tonight and while I'm still not 100% certain I want to buy I'm hopeful that this will be a better experience for me than it has in the past. And with that, if I do find something I want to buy, that I'll have the representation and support that comes along with working with a good Realtor.
Stay tuned for updates.
For several years I've been "looking" and thought I found the perfect place a time or two. For one reason or another they didn't work out and I'd give up and take a break and then start over.
So I've started over. Entirely. That is, I have elected to work with a new Realtor and loan officer. Fresh start. And hopefully get better guidance than I have in the past.
I'm going to see a few places tonight and while I'm still not 100% certain I want to buy I'm hopeful that this will be a better experience for me than it has in the past. And with that, if I do find something I want to buy, that I'll have the representation and support that comes along with working with a good Realtor.
Stay tuned for updates.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Therapy
First, this:
So appropriate! I love it!!
In other therapy news, I've started writing haiku. Not because I particularly enjoy haiku (I don't) and not because I particularly enjoy poetry (I don't), but rather because it is amazingly therapeutic. No really. Hear me out.
I frequently find myself wanting to choke someone. Or slap the hell out of them. Or inflict some other sort of bodily harm. Since society tends to frown on doing these sorts of things I've had to find other outlets for my frustrations. For a long time the solution was to just sit and let it fester. After finally realizing how toxic it is to sit around pissed all the time (figuratively, of course), I just started to let things roll off my back. Unless whatever I was pissed about was going to directly affect me, I didn't let it bother me. Er, at least not in the same way I would have before.
Enter Michelle, a long-time online friend, but someone who I'm pretty sure could walk into my living room and kick her shoes off and feel like we've known each other all our lives. She's amazingly smart, very witty, and to top it off she's creative. Creativity goes a long way with me. I have pretty much zero, so when I meet someone who is really with it, and who is super cool to boot, well...let's just say it makes me happy.
One day Michelle was at work and not having the best day ever. She works in a group home and that alone is an amazing thing on so many levels. One day she Twittered that, in place of slapping the hell out of someone (in a meeting I think), she was instead writing haiku about them. Genius! Sheer genius!
I find writing haiku to be extremely challenging when I'm in a normal (not pissed) state of mind. When I'm pissed and my brain is on fire it is often difficult to put a thought together, let alone try to write poetry. Further, haiku follows a challenging structure in that you only have a total of 17 syllables to work with in the entire piece. If you want to be strict about it and add the seasonal reference AND the caesura, well, that just adds more restriction to what you can do.
I took Michelle's idea and worked it into my own setting. Now when I get pissed you can bet I'm working on a poem either in my brain or that I've already scratched a few ideas out.
The therapeutic effect comes in to play at this point. As I said earlier, when I'm mad or upset it is hard for me to put a single thought together some times. Now when I sit down to compose a piece of poetry I am literally forcing myself to put thoughts together, and to have them make sense. And of course since the poetry of choice is haiku, they not only have to make sense (at least to me) but they also have to be structured! Writing haiku has turned into an amazing mental exercise for me and a total win-win situation.
In the act of forcing myself to put thoughts together I am actually doing a type of meditation. That in and of itself is calming. Taking those thoughts and working them into a structure is an amazing challenge. I have no choice but to find a way to say what I want in a very limited form. That is very, very hard. Are you seeing the benefits yet?
A. Calming
B. Mental exercise
C. Having a finished product to be proud of though probably not one to publish.
I <3 therapy haiku and I <3 Michelle for sharing such an awesome idea.
Finally, here's an example of one of my finer pieces. It ignores the caesura and season but it gets the point across. Enjoy.
i feel betrayed now
being deceitful is rude
my respect is gone
So appropriate! I love it!!
In other therapy news, I've started writing haiku. Not because I particularly enjoy haiku (I don't) and not because I particularly enjoy poetry (I don't), but rather because it is amazingly therapeutic. No really. Hear me out.
I frequently find myself wanting to choke someone. Or slap the hell out of them. Or inflict some other sort of bodily harm. Since society tends to frown on doing these sorts of things I've had to find other outlets for my frustrations. For a long time the solution was to just sit and let it fester. After finally realizing how toxic it is to sit around pissed all the time (figuratively, of course), I just started to let things roll off my back. Unless whatever I was pissed about was going to directly affect me, I didn't let it bother me. Er, at least not in the same way I would have before.
Enter Michelle, a long-time online friend, but someone who I'm pretty sure could walk into my living room and kick her shoes off and feel like we've known each other all our lives. She's amazingly smart, very witty, and to top it off she's creative. Creativity goes a long way with me. I have pretty much zero, so when I meet someone who is really with it, and who is super cool to boot, well...let's just say it makes me happy.
One day Michelle was at work and not having the best day ever. She works in a group home and that alone is an amazing thing on so many levels. One day she Twittered that, in place of slapping the hell out of someone (in a meeting I think), she was instead writing haiku about them. Genius! Sheer genius!
I find writing haiku to be extremely challenging when I'm in a normal (not pissed) state of mind. When I'm pissed and my brain is on fire it is often difficult to put a thought together, let alone try to write poetry. Further, haiku follows a challenging structure in that you only have a total of 17 syllables to work with in the entire piece. If you want to be strict about it and add the seasonal reference AND the caesura, well, that just adds more restriction to what you can do.
I took Michelle's idea and worked it into my own setting. Now when I get pissed you can bet I'm working on a poem either in my brain or that I've already scratched a few ideas out.
The therapeutic effect comes in to play at this point. As I said earlier, when I'm mad or upset it is hard for me to put a single thought together some times. Now when I sit down to compose a piece of poetry I am literally forcing myself to put thoughts together, and to have them make sense. And of course since the poetry of choice is haiku, they not only have to make sense (at least to me) but they also have to be structured! Writing haiku has turned into an amazing mental exercise for me and a total win-win situation.
In the act of forcing myself to put thoughts together I am actually doing a type of meditation. That in and of itself is calming. Taking those thoughts and working them into a structure is an amazing challenge. I have no choice but to find a way to say what I want in a very limited form. That is very, very hard. Are you seeing the benefits yet?
A. Calming
B. Mental exercise
C. Having a finished product to be proud of though probably not one to publish.
I <3 therapy haiku and I <3 Michelle for sharing such an awesome idea.
Finally, here's an example of one of my finer pieces. It ignores the caesura and season but it gets the point across. Enjoy.
i feel betrayed now
being deceitful is rude
my respect is gone
Monday, August 3, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Guest Blogger for a Day
See my guest blogger appearance over on Claire De Lunacy's blog.
I'll write more here on my own space soon, hopefully by tomorrow!
I'll write more here on my own space soon, hopefully by tomorrow!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Yikes
I knew it had been a while since I posted a blog but damn. January 1st? And this is the end of May? Well, trust me when I say that I have thought many times "I need to write in my blog" and then it fell by the wayside. I'm making a conscious effort to do better. Good things are happening in the world of this bohemian and they will be blogged! A few short updates:
1. ACME was great. San Francisco was a million times better this time than 4 years ago. Our presentation was well received.
2. I went to Hawaii to present as well. Again, it was well received and I had a lot of questions. I also learned an amazing amount from my colleagues across the nation. It really is a very exciting time to be a medical librarian.
3. I'm not 100% sure if I am going to go to Brisbane or not. I definitely WANT to, but I'm not sure that I'll be recovered from a pretty major surgical procedure that I'm having and after the trip to Hawaii I can be sure that a trip to Brisbane will be really physically demanding.
4. Said surgery is on June 8th.
Updates soon!
In the meantime photos from my trip to Hawaii can be seen at http://picasaweb.google.com/hholmes2473/Hawaii#
1. ACME was great. San Francisco was a million times better this time than 4 years ago. Our presentation was well received.
2. I went to Hawaii to present as well. Again, it was well received and I had a lot of questions. I also learned an amazing amount from my colleagues across the nation. It really is a very exciting time to be a medical librarian.
3. I'm not 100% sure if I am going to go to Brisbane or not. I definitely WANT to, but I'm not sure that I'll be recovered from a pretty major surgical procedure that I'm having and after the trip to Hawaii I can be sure that a trip to Brisbane will be really physically demanding.
4. Said surgery is on June 8th.
Updates soon!
In the meantime photos from my trip to Hawaii can be seen at http://picasaweb.google.com/hholmes2473/Hawaii#
Thursday, January 1, 2009
1/1
I did it.
I survived 2008. Not that I really thought I wouldn't survive, but it is always nice to know that you've made it through another year. I thought about doing some sort of retrospective of the year past, like one major event from each month but I couldn't think of anything cool that happened in February so I gave up. On the other hand, I can say with absolute confidence that 2008 has been the best year I can remember in a long time.
I made a Facebook page. Since 99% of my professional contacts (and a good number of real friends) use Facebook rather than MySpace I decided I'd give it a whirl. I do have some friends on there, but I am using it for professional contacts. I'll likely put very little of my personal life/information on there. I hesitated even putting my Pure Romance business on there but decided to. Mistake. It got people sending friend requests that I do not want on that page. I promptly deleted it as a job, network and email address. It isn't that I don't want to be "friends" with other PR Consultants, but PR isn't part my professional life and therefore doesn't have a place on my Facebook.
Every year since I've lived alone I have made kielbasa and kraut on New Year's Day. Every year except this one because when I went to the store today (I always go on NYD, too) they were out of kielbasa. There were no other options since I'm not much of a pork fan to begin with and I definitely don't know how to cook anything else. Plus, pork is difficult to cook unless you know how to do it. Clearly I know enough to know that I don't know how. Needless to say I left the store with 3 bags of chips (they were buy one, get two free!), some colby-jack cheese, some pasta salad, Pepsi and mini Snickers ice cream bars. Based on this shopping trip alone it's obvious why I'm a model of perfect health.
I have been playing my Wii a bit more frequently over the past week or so. I bought some new games and I've had a lot of fun playing them except for the fact that anything that moves too fast (the 3D type stuff) gives me the sensation of vertigo and I have to quit before I puke. It is a horrible feeling and doesn't easily go away.
So what does 2009 hold for me? I'm not sure yet, but if it is as good as 2008 was I'll be very satisfied at this time next year.
Cheers, and I hope you all have a great year.
I survived 2008. Not that I really thought I wouldn't survive, but it is always nice to know that you've made it through another year. I thought about doing some sort of retrospective of the year past, like one major event from each month but I couldn't think of anything cool that happened in February so I gave up. On the other hand, I can say with absolute confidence that 2008 has been the best year I can remember in a long time.
I made a Facebook page. Since 99% of my professional contacts (and a good number of real friends) use Facebook rather than MySpace I decided I'd give it a whirl. I do have some friends on there, but I am using it for professional contacts. I'll likely put very little of my personal life/information on there. I hesitated even putting my Pure Romance business on there but decided to. Mistake. It got people sending friend requests that I do not want on that page. I promptly deleted it as a job, network and email address. It isn't that I don't want to be "friends" with other PR Consultants, but PR isn't part my professional life and therefore doesn't have a place on my Facebook.
Every year since I've lived alone I have made kielbasa and kraut on New Year's Day. Every year except this one because when I went to the store today (I always go on NYD, too) they were out of kielbasa. There were no other options since I'm not much of a pork fan to begin with and I definitely don't know how to cook anything else. Plus, pork is difficult to cook unless you know how to do it. Clearly I know enough to know that I don't know how. Needless to say I left the store with 3 bags of chips (they were buy one, get two free!), some colby-jack cheese, some pasta salad, Pepsi and mini Snickers ice cream bars. Based on this shopping trip alone it's obvious why I'm a model of perfect health.
I have been playing my Wii a bit more frequently over the past week or so. I bought some new games and I've had a lot of fun playing them except for the fact that anything that moves too fast (the 3D type stuff) gives me the sensation of vertigo and I have to quit before I puke. It is a horrible feeling and doesn't easily go away.
So what does 2009 hold for me? I'm not sure yet, but if it is as good as 2008 was I'll be very satisfied at this time next year.
Cheers, and I hope you all have a great year.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Bragging Rights
I've earned 'em.
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:46 PM
To: Heather
Subject: MLA 2009 Paper Confirmation
December 17, 2008
Dear Heather:
RE: MLA '09 Abstract Submission Acceptance Confirmation
Aloha! We are pleased to confirm the acceptance of your abstract entitled,
"Developing an EBM Consultant Service: Measuring the Impact". This abstract
has been accepted for presentation during MLA '09 iFusions, the Medical
Library Association's (MLA) annual meeting, May 15-20, 2009 at the Hawaii
Convention Center in Honolulu, HI. As the key contact, you will be the only
one to receive this and any future correspondence. Please inform your
co-authors (if any) of this acceptance and any future details.
We received many submissions this year, and yours is among the 59 accepted
submissions following a rigorous peer review process. Your presentation will
be one of several during the following section-sponsored session:
Innovation. Inspiration. Illumination. Session 2. Your session has been
scheduled on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 from 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM. In the next
few months, the sponsoring section's program chair or session moderator will
contact you to discuss your speaking order and timing during the session.
You should plan on approximately 15 minutes for your presentation. Session
moderators and chairs will communicate the exact amount of time you will
have to present your material and answer questions from the audience. Please
see
http://mlanet.org/am/am2009/sect_prog/themes.html for a complete listing of
section sponsors and section program chairs for all topics.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:46 PM
To: Heather
Subject: MLA 2009 Paper Confirmation
December 17, 2008
Dear Heather:
RE: MLA '09 Abstract Submission Acceptance Confirmation
Aloha! We are pleased to confirm the acceptance of your abstract entitled,
"Developing an EBM Consultant Service: Measuring the Impact". This abstract
has been accepted for presentation during MLA '09 iFusions, the Medical
Library Association's (MLA) annual meeting, May 15-20, 2009 at the Hawaii
Convention Center in Honolulu, HI. As the key contact, you will be the only
one to receive this and any future correspondence. Please inform your
co-authors (if any) of this acceptance and any future details.
We received many submissions this year, and yours is among the 59 accepted
submissions following a rigorous peer review process. Your presentation will
be one of several during the following section-sponsored session:
Innovation. Inspiration. Illumination. Session 2. Your session has been
scheduled on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 from 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM. In the next
few months, the sponsoring section's program chair or session moderator will
contact you to discuss your speaking order and timing during the session.
You should plan on approximately 15 minutes for your presentation. Session
moderators and chairs will communicate the exact amount of time you will
have to present your material and answer questions from the audience. Please
see
http://mlanet.org/am/am2009/sect_prog/themes.html for a complete listing of
section sponsors and section program chairs for all topics.
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Rest of text removed
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