Category — Microblog Mondays

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As the article points out, “Nietzsche detected the handwriting of envy everywhere, observing, ‘Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul’.”  Truth.

The article is about using your envy to discover what YOU truly care about vs. what society has told you to care about.  Because we all feel envy, and if we keep digging into that envy, noting when we feel envy, what we’re envious about on the surface, and then what we’re really envious about deep down inside — for instance, surface envy would be coveting someone else’s house; deeper envy is realizing what you’re coveting is assumed financial stability — then we can learn about ourselves and use that information to make decisions.

In other words, “envy can help us identify our vision of excellence and where need be, perhaps reshape it.”

My envy — like the example above — seems to stem from the idea of financial stability.  Rather than stewing in it, I’ve been trying to read financial planning articles.  The most boring reads of my life, but it’s making me feel like I’m accomplishing something.

What are you really envious of vs surface envy?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I eat almost all the foods that put us in a bad mood.  I don’t know if there are more on the list because the actual book isn’t out until September, but if these seven are the focus of the book, I’m making some pretty poor life choices.

I’ve actually cut out diet soda for the most part.  I was having at least one glass per day, but I haven’t bought it in months.  Though I use artificial sweeteners in my coffee, so… I’m still getting the worst part of the diet soda.  I also use margarine when I’m baking pareve.  (Which is just a kosher way of saying it’s non-meat and non-dairy.)  Butter isn’t an option, so that wasn’t a very helpful suggestion.

I tend to bake my own sweets and we never get fast food (going back to that whole kosher thing).  But I love salty snacks (especially pretzels… mmm…).  And I use canned tomatoes all the time.  And cereal (though my main one, Special K, is on the correct side of the sugar limit).  So let’s say I semi-regularly consume 4 of the 7 and I hit 6 of the 7 on a monthly basis?

Crap.

How did you do with the bad mood food list?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

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A professor set up his out-of-work message with a caveat.  Any emails sent between the dates he was gone would be deleted by the server.  The sender received a message instructing them to re-send the email again after an assigned date.  In other words, the professor returned to inbox zero, the same way they left for their vacation, and the burden to resend was on the sender.  He reasoned that if it was an important message, the person would resend.  And if they didn’t, he had to accept that fact in order to avoid being buried under email when he returned to work.

I kind of love this and I kind of hate it at the same time.  I think it’s brilliant AND it would depend on the person whether I resent the message.  I would really really really need to get the message through to play along.

What would you do?

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Today my 12th blogoversary intersects with the 200th #Microblog Monday.  I have been writing this blog for 12 years.  12 years!  200 of those posts have been Microblog Monday.  The other several thousand (because I write on average 5 posts per week, 52 weeks per year) have been random mishmash from my clotty uterus to the twins to my extreme love of quokkas to bothering Josh with my feelings at 11 pm.

About 1/4th of my life has been spent writing this site.  Isn’t that mind-blowing?  A quarter of my life.

I have no great wisdom to impart except write.  Keep at it.  The way you amass 12 years is showing up for 12 years.

Thank you for being here.

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“The instinct to gossip has been with us ever since there were more human beings than Adam and Eve. Once you went beyond the first two, there was gossip.”

I normally love gossip — at least in the form of People magazine — though I’ve gotten more sensitive to it in this past year.  There’s something about unnamed sources coupled with the age of manipulated news that sours me even to the most innocuous stories.  But it is so hard to tear myself away from celebrity stories.  Plus… it’s sort of sociology if you look at it the same way as this WashPo article:

Lui, 44, is a gossip evangelist. She believes in its value and its power: As a communication tool, a collective finger on the pulse of our culture, a means of sussing out our morals, our insecurities, our aspirations, our fears. She’s part investigative reporter, part breaking-news ethicist, part social anthropologist.

What do you think our gossip scene is saying about us as a people right now?

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