Readings

Been reading a lot of "self-help" style stuff of late (yay for the instant gratification of e-books on the Palm). I suspect this is because of the feeling of being out of control thanks to the ankle. Anyway, recurring theme in all of them, no matter the overarching topic, can be boiled down to, "accept that you're human, and therefore flawed, and you'll do your best, but you will mess up once in a while, and that's okay."

Perfectionism as the enemy of the good (the fit, the organized, the motivated, the etc.).

Ruminations are needed on this, but that will mean scheduling some time away from the computer and/or other distractions, and those distractions have been far, far too distracting of late (speaking of which, doublejoe7, I tried the NWN module this weekend, talk to me later about it). I feel like I've had a lot of time to sit with my thoughts, but haven't used any of it to do any thinking.

Let's hope the ankle boot comes off tomorrow, or at least soon.

Politics as usual

Tonight was a prime indicator of why I will never go higher than I am in politics - I have a low threshold for bullshit.

Tonight is the Ward One "Citizen's Summit," where citizens get to listen to the Mayor babble on about city problems and priorities and supposedly offer feedback. I say supposedly because the feedback is all multiple choice to answers the office of the Mayor has already hand-picked so they can say, "Well, X% of residents said they liked option one!" at future meetings, leaving out the part about the choice being between bad option one and worse option two.

Plus we got there late, as I knew we would, and there were no seats. And with a broken ankle in a brace, I couldn't stand for that long.

Yuck. And some politicians wonder why the public has a bad opinion of us.

"Tuno"

Tried some fake tuna stuff just now, which I now see from their lame-ass web site is made by Kelloggs.

What a waste of good celery.

I even packed the stuff in a freezer back so it wouldn't stink up the trash when I tossed it.

*shudder*

Stick to corn flakes, boys, you're better at that.