Infestation of Germs

It's the second day of Spring...birds are singing, trees and plants are coming back to life, and students everywhere are exposing me to germs. Let me explain. Last week was our Spring Break on campus. I had a week of relaxing work, no class, easy to find parking spaces, and much more. Unfortunately Spring Break ended yesterday. I was first reminded that all students are back when the parking lot was at its normal capacity this morning (thank GOODNESS I have a faculty/staff parking permit)! The second friendly reminder was when I almost got hit on the pedestrian crossing by students who speed through those. The third reminder, even better, was when I went to the bathroom before class and had to listen to the girl in the next stall getting sick. Now, there is a strong reason that I am not in the medical profession...I get queasy really easily. Hearing that made me feel nauseous all day. Then I get to class and there are students coughing all around me. At work, there's a kid sitting two cubes over who is coughing up a lung. Germs are back, and they are everywhere!

Attitude

Had the fortune of reading this today at work. It is now one of my favorite things so I couldn't resist but to share :).

The longer I live
The more I realize the impact of
Attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important
Than the past,
Than education,
Than money,
Than circumstances,
Than failures,
Than success,
Than what other people
Think or say or do.

It is more important than
Appearance,
Giftedness or skill.
It will make or break
An organization,
A school, a home.

The remarkable thing is
We have a choice every day
Regarding the attitude
We will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that
People will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do
Is play the string we have.
And that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is
10 percent what happens to me and
90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you.

--- By Charles Swindell

What happened to dreaming in real life?

I just caught myself. Realized that when I was young I used to dream all the time. I wanted to be an actress for years. I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to be a dolphin trainer. I had a mad crush on my gym teacher in elementary school (which explains my current crush on George Clooney...I have a thing for older men). Currently, I have been saying "I hope to get a job after May" or "I hope I do well on this test next week." Yes, these are responsibilities. There is no fantasy attached. I'm not saying that adults should live in a fantasy world (I know some do, hello Star Trek exbos) but I am saying that I need to incorporate some of that dreaming back into my life. Hell, I have the word dream tattooed on me and I am letting it down right now.


So, in effort to reconnect with dreaming, I would like to become a published author. I have not decided if I will remain anonymous. I'd like to be the person people call when they are looking for a good speaker for public events. I want to be in a commercial of some sort...don't have to even talk, I'd settle for being in the background. Or a music video, or movie. I want to go to Ireland and make friends with people from the country who have awesome accents.

What are your dreams?

And the Oscar for Most Awkward goes to....

Watching the Oscars, and as Kristen Stewart comes up to present I think to myself "Okay, did they not see her on any other award show?!" She continually displays an innate awkwardness and inability to get through one sentence in front of a live audience. She also looks completely miserable while going through this painful moment. At this year's Oscars she continued scratching the back of her head and then awkwardly fake coughed during the middle of her sentence. Seriously, look at her picture. The chick does NOT look thrilled to be there. Due to this, I award her 2010's Oscar for "Best Awkward Actress"



My second Oscar for "Best Supporting Awkward Actress" goes to Cameron Diaz. Now, I happen to not be a huge fan of Cameron Diaz (come on now, how different are her characters in each movie?) so this may come off as ever so slightly biased (I know, me, biased? Hard to believe). But dear Cameron was awkwardly tall this year. Now I respect tall girls as I am one myself but Cameron must have worn some crazy heels because she towered over everyone and looked like the jolly gold giant instead of the model look she was probably striving for. It was really fun to watch people try to interview her, while their head was right at her chest and they were stretching their neck upward and extending their arm fully to accomplish communication :).

Psychology Results

I'm in a PSYCH class this semester as my elective and we took two personality tests as a part of it: the NEO PI R and the Myers Briggs. I thought my blog readers (all 5 of you) might find my results semi-interesting.

The NEO is scored in five categories: OCEAN. I scored really high in Neuroticism (no shock there!) but as much as I call myself neurotic, it actually means that I react to things emotionally, which is true. Next was extroversion, where I scored on the low average side...totally agree with that as I refer to myself as an "outgoing introvert." After that is Openness, I scored low haha. I was a little disappointed with myself because I know I used to be pretty judgmental but thought I had opened up pretty well in recent years. Looks like I still have some work to do. Next was agreeableness, I scored low on that too...ha. Wasn't a shock because I am not quick at all to trust people and almost always have my guard up. Last is consciousness, and I scored low on that too (what the heck?!). This was a bit of a surprise at first, but then I realized yea...I really have no order in my life if I am left on my own (take now, when I was being productive then tuned on Pandora and started typing this blog). So basically, the NEO confirmed that I am literally a hot mess...which I already knew :).

Myers Briggs scored me as INFP- Introvert, Intuitive, Feeling and Perceptive. All fit me extremely well. Once again, I scored high in reacting emotionally and low on use of logical/rational thinking :-p. Definitely makes sense, I mean look at my past posts! I would never want to change though, that's the sick thing!