Paul Levy

I read this article tonight. I am very impressed. Paul Levy is the CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has proposed a plan that will allow all employees at the Med Center to keep their jobs. Amazing. His proposal received a huge amount of support. He has asked for suggestions from employees on how to make it completely possible. That is a smart move, because if people are involved in the planning process, they are more likely to go along with the plan. From what I read, it sounds like all of the people at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are incredible.
Read the full article here.

Would It Hurt?

Here is a link to a very funny website called WouldItHurt.com
If you like dark humour, this is for you!
I especially like this post.

http://wouldithurt.com/page/2

Pretty Pretty

So, I think that this is a pretty song that just needs to be spread around. It's called "The First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes.

I hope you like it.

Technology Techschmology

For the second time in 6 months, my hard drive is corrupted. Ah poo. How rude. Technology has never been my friend. I don't understand! It likes everyone else in my family. I suppose it's because... I don't know why it would be because. I have no because for this. None.
As far as I know there aren't any viruses on my laptop, but maybe I'm just lucky and they all went to my poor unprotected external schmexternal hard drive. Lucky me.

Actually that is pretty lucky. At least I don't have to cry over everything that I have ever had electronically being lost for forever and a half never to be recovered unless repurchased. Hallelujah.

I've tried to be friends with Technology. Maybe one day I won't be so brutally rejected and I will have a sunshiny friendship...

One can only hope. I do love a good sundress.

Sunshine and Tan-Lines!

I officially have a tan line. And it's only the first week of March! Hallelujah-to-ya! I took a nap outside earlier in the week and my arms certainly benefited from the sun.

But on the poopoo side, it's supposed to snow sometime this week. How can it go to 60-something to SNOW? Who knows. I don't really care yet, I'm enjoying the discovery of my tan lines!

Staying on the sunny side of life... life is good right now. I'm not feeling terribly stressed. I am not entirely sure why things feel so good, but I'm really enjoying the feeling. And I'm really hoping that it lasts.

Also, I'm pretty sure that I am coming back to BYU in the Fall, instead of trying to work to go gallivanting across the world to go to school in Italy next year. That will just have to wait until after I graduate with my BFA. So I'll go for the master's program and save about.... $60,000. Sounds good to me. Especially since I don't have anywhere near that much money. Plus, I don't hate Provo nearly as much right now.

All I need now is a dog.

Side note: I was talking to some folks in my German class today and I commented that I couldn't spell in English anymore. Then one of the girls said something like she agreed and it went on and she told us that she thought that we should just get rid of the letter "c" in English. We don't need it. I, for some reason, felt very attached to the letter "c" and felt the need to defend its place in our 26 letter alphabet. So I said something like, "Well, what about kitty?" They all just looked at me funny and then one girl said, "Valiant effort." Valiant effort indeed. Go me.

Happy

I got to play with a dog today! Okay, it was in a cage, but I got to pet it.

Twice.

Happy.

Ear Buds

I just need to complain. I have the absolute WORST luck with ear buds, earphones, technology in general. But ear buds especially have not been good to me. I suppose it could be that I am not good to them, but, for the sake of my complaining, I am going to say that I am 100% not in the wrong. That's how I like to look at things. I know it isn't true. But it is kind of nice to think sometimes.

Anyway.

Ear buds.

I have gone through five or six pairs in the last one to two years. Personally, I think that is a lot of pairs since most people I know get one pair, and it lasts them for forever and a half. Meanwhile, here I am, Destructo-Girl, on my umpteenth pair of ear-buddies. I have been shocked by 3 pairs, in my ears, on multiple occasions, all of which I was completely dry. Being shocked in the ear is not fun. You'd think it would be a party in your ear, but you would be thinking wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
The coating stuff almost always comes off and then wires are exposed. That just makes me nervous because then I have more of a chance of getting shocked. I have enough electricity in my body, I don't need more right now. Thanks.
Sometimes my ear buds just plain fall apart. Mind you, in an effort to NOT have to buy more and more ear buds, I buy the kind that are suppppppposed to last a long time. Bah. It's futile.
Quite frequently one ear just stops working. Most often it's the left ear, sadly. I like to listen to music in my left ear so then I can hear what's going on around me in my right ear, that or talk on the phone. The music in my head is like a buffer for awkward phone moments that seem to follow me like the plague. Tangent.
I suppose that ear buds aren't really meant to be slept in. It's just that it makes me drift off to sleep so nicely and I have some pretty crazy dreams. But. I guess I'll just have to listen to that insanely loud ticking coming from the clock in my bedroom. That and I'll have to suck it up and buy another set of ear buds because my current ones have decided to work a fraction of the time, and that is only if I hold really still. I am not a statue. I wiggle. I will have to try not to sleep in the next set.