This is a guest post by Aldo Torner. Sometimes it is easy to identify new parents just by looking at what they are carrying. Simply size up the baby bag. As the oldest of six siblings, I remember watching my own mom’s baby bag evolution over the years. It seemed that shopping for just the right diaper bag – and it had to be HUGE – was only important during the early years. Once it came to baby number six, my mom had packing baby’s stuff down to an art, and everything she needed fit into her oversized purse
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Procrastination isn’t a problem, it’s a solution. But a very poor one. Every bit of time and energy you spend finding ways and means to put things off is a piece of your life that you will never, ever get reimbursed. If this is your solution to things you don’t enjoy or things that scare you, you’re fucked. So, here’s how to remove procrastination from your life.
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Figure out what you really REALLY WANT and then go after it with every fucking piece of you, right now. Repeat. Don’t stop. Ever.
Time is running out. Now. It isn’t “Do or die,” it’s “Do *then* die.”
Get on with it.
The ever-caring Barney of BD-Company has herded together 14 models for a charity pin-up calendar – available for the 2011-12 academic year, or the 2012 normal dullards year. Go and buy one at the bd-shop and give it to an elderly relative. That is all.
Keep readingI just watched him join a band on Twitter a few days ago, and already they’re releasing a single. For charity. And they’re a “Twitter phenomenon” type thingy.
Keep readingWhat do you wish you’d done this past year? And why the fudge didn’t you do it? What crappy excuse did you give yourself?
Keep readingForgive my absence; I assure you, I have excuses… Machiavelli Id: Preggernaut (combo of preggers, astronaut, and soon to be juggernaut) . I’ll try not to bore you about it.
Keep readingmoney, lack of shiny clothes teh sex Classical Latin time management people I miss social networks game theory money, obtaining See the grinding of my mental gears? money, lack of versus shiny clothes shiny clothes equals teh sexiness sex versus Classical Latin assignment time management required to balance Classical Latin assignment versus teh sex time management versus people I miss people I miss within social networks game theory as applied to social networks game theory as applied to negotiations for obtaining money obtaining money equals shiny clothes, &c. Ho hum.
Keep readingI am now almost a week late. No, not my period. I’ve been meaning to blog the Beltane festivities at Butser Ancient Farm since I went there last weekend. I took nifty photos of the wicker man burning, made my own twig staff with a star on the top, and everything. Then on the way home, everything kind of died. again. I can’t even think about trying to escape. The chains are far too thick. The Pit seems almost reassuring by now. When I’m there, I reach an altered state of consciousness in which I experience moments of perfect calm.
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