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[digitaldiscipline]

8 / 4 / 3 / 0 [1]

Tried a different routine at the gym last night, without a whole lot of success (I felt off anyways, and it didn't help much). Then I was dumb and ate chips, salsa, and frozen pizza and crashed hard. My body is telling me in no uncertain terms that a) I need more damn sleep, and b) I need to get the fuck away from heavily processed crap with preservatives in it, because it fucks with me in my sleep.

Jeeves is making progress on reintegrating into the productive end of society, and has an interview with the very nice recruiter who had been keeping an eye out for gigs for me (Patty Connor at KForce) tomorrow.

Hockey on Friday. Some office function with K's company at the Aquarium on Saturday. [note to Critus: this means we either won't make the gaming session, or would it be possible to reschedule? I emailed you, but I know you're stuck in training today].

Note to Self: Stop eating crap.

Note to Microsoft: Your Natural Keyboard Lite (or whatever the non-Pro version is called) is a minor abomination - the arrow keys are too fucking small, and that plus-sign layout they're in sucks more than a left-handed one-button mouse.

Note to Ayn Rand: I realize you're bitchy and have a philosophical axe to grind, and, five hundred-plus pages in, we've finally met the shadowy figure of mystery introduced in the first sentence of Atlas Shrugged, but that is no excuse for the guy to talk for two and a half pages straight, without pausing for so much as a fucking paragraph break. Believe me, I rant, and it's been said that I rant well, but I know enough to at least draw breath to avoid making my reader/listener's head go 'splody. Your stubborn, constipated, eat-this-whole-fucking-watermelon-uncut delivery of Galt's Manifesto is unnecessarily abusive of your audience, and undermines your argument by making it impossible to ingest. Even the guy from the Micro Machines commercials couldn't run that sucker off before people would be fidgeting and checking their watches.




[1] My thumbnail personality type, at least on a perky day, at the office, as measured by the service-oriented profile test we did in training, broken down as "Talker / Supporter / Doer / Controller." What I found to be interesting is that, when I'm in a bad mood, a lot of my answers flip almost 180 degrees, and I become a Doer/Controller, with almost no Supporter tendencies. Anyone who's seen me on the rare occasions this happens can probably vouch for this.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

It was recommended to me that the best way to enjoy Atlas Shrugged is to skip over every word Galt ever says. That turned out to be excellent advice.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

That's probably not bad advice. He's pretty much unfettered, undiluted Rand-ranting in the guise of some vaguely hunky dude.

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

Make that a faintly-martyred-noble-bearing vaguely hunky guy. Personally, my favorite was always Reardon.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing the sexual tension, and every so often wonder if there is D'Anconia/Rearden/Galt/Dagny slashfic in existence.

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

eeek. That is a terrible, terrible idea that I feel tempted to Google, but won't.

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

*twitchtwitch*
If there were such slashfic, it would be...yeargh. It would definitely have Rand spinning in her grave like a cat with toast-butter-side-up strapped to its back. She was death on homosexuality, though definitely on with polygamy.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Have you read any of Ayn's other crap...er...work? I hear that "Anthem" is a particularly good read. I borrowed it a good long time ago, and have yet to crack the cover even once. My bad.

Yeah, "no sleep, poor diet BAAAAD!". What he said. Mea culpa.

So, did anyone find your ego yet? I read a few posts ago it was missing. Sorry, I haven't seen it. Maybe it ran off with my self esteem and common sense to Cancun. I'll watch for a postcard and let you know.

I may just post sometime soon. Shock of shocks.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Anthem when I read it in junior high, and it's pretty short. That was before I knew the legacy of Ayn Rand, though. Not sure if my opinion would be different now that I'm older and wiser.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I read Anthem after The Fountainhead [which is one of the few books I've got that I've re-read upwards of a half-dozen times], and my summary of it was "1984 if Orwell had been denied his morning cup of coffee, and was cranky about it."

I got a big ol' jugg of cranberry juice, and some lemon juice to mix with water at the office, though i did splurge and get some of those Quakes rice cakes [ranch flavor, at netgoth's recommendation].

if my ego and your self esteem are off somewhere partying with fruity drinks on a beach, i want the video sales rights. ;-)

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

:::giggles:::

Last I heard, your ego and my self esteem sent my common sense into town on some fools errand, and are partying hard down on some poor shlubs yacht, having conned him into believing they are heirs to billions. Better send a camera crew quick.

[critus.livejournal.com]

To : Rafe
From : Ayn Rand

Two and a half pages?

You ain't seen nothing yet.

Keep reading, boyo.

[razerwolfe.livejournal.com]

LOL. I just finished re-reading Atlas Shrugged and was gearing up to do a post on it. I'm pretty much 80-90% in tune with her grinding axe, and even with my Objectivist/Libertarian bent the speeches on all sides do get a bit looooong-winded. Agree with an earlier post: Reardon is much better. Anthem is great! (RUSH's 2112 turned me onto that in the dark ages of the long ago).