urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask Arevask Arevask 2009-04-02T23:07:14Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:70890 2009-04-02T23:07:14Z 2009-04-02T23:07:14Z I think I'm witnessing a teacher/student affair. Hehehe. It's probably just the times we're in that my mind assumes this is a rendezvous. But from what I gather, the woman is a math teacher, the boy is a high school sophomore, and they're unrelated. And they're awfully touchy-feely. Hehehhe. She's sprawled over a lounge chair and he's sitting forward, touching her handbag handles, placing his coffee cup on her knee, tapping his fingers on her ankles, and chatting together about grades and where they'll go for dinner. Hehehehhehehehehhe. I love it. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:70337 2009-03-16T09:05:29Z 2009-03-16T09:05:29Z Which one category best describes your job function? (Select only one)<br /> Manager<br /> Professional/Non-Manager<br /> Sales<br /> Technician<br /> Clerical/Office<br /> Laborer/Production (including services and crafts)<br /> Homemaker/Student<br /> Retired urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:70085 2009-03-15T06:20:40Z 2009-03-15T06:20:40Z Ok, I need to work just 5-6 more days then I am going to visit little Germany and go mega-outlet shopping, then go HOMEEE for a bit :). So just gotta do this. Egh, so difficult ... tired. Oh k. Um. Yeah, I saw yo yo ma and silk road ensemble! So cool. They played some armenian classical even! But I liked Layla and Mag(something) musical the best. Ahhh so beautiful. yo yo ma is handsome too :D urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:68771 2009-02-04T02:31:42Z 2009-02-04T02:31:42Z Pervez Mushareef<br />Norman Mailer<br />Chan Ho Park<br />Mark Hammil<br /><br /><br /><br />What do these men have in common?<br /><br />I submitted my photo to myheritage for celebrity matching. They all match me above 50%. Mushareef at 56%! <br /><br />Only 3 female celebrities matched my face: Alicia Silverstone.. :S Gillian Chung and Elizabeth Shue :S :S:S urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:67206 2008-12-05T09:49:24Z 2008-12-05T09:49:24Z I am really craving ketchup smothered soggy french fries now..................... I'm at the library now, working on a paper with a maximum attention span of about 2 minutes. But I'm having no trouble concentrating on the french fries... It's the midwest, there should be a Denny's open somewhere around here. If not, Shake and Steaks is 24 hours but their fries are not soggy!!! Oh the dilemmazzz! I should be writing now about the experimental methodology. Right, right... c'moonnnnn....<br /><br />In a few hours, going to email this to Jag. Hopefully not DIE. Go to two talks. I've been hiding in a hole this week... well almost quite literally.... btw, cabin fever is not a myth! So I hope people won't be too shocked to see me... After hopefully not dying, I will come home... shower, laundry, pack, call shuttle, sleep, and GO TO NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooo excited to go to ennn whyyy seeee! I can't wait for the super cultural shock! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:65903 2008-08-05T21:00:10Z 2008-08-05T21:00:10Z I'm totally losing the meaning of life but the most painful part is that I am aware of this. I'm so comfortable just observing, understanding, and anticipating the moment I will jump in and join the rat race. But the longer I wait, the right moment never appears. I just stick my toes into the water every now and then and then retreat back to observing, understanding, and anticipation again. When I try to play, I get confused by everything around me because I can't just go on instinct when my mind is so confused with all my observations. Then I realize that my observations really didn't help me at all. And only by actually doing something -- will help me. But that again is an observation and not an action so I am back to where I started...<br /><br />It's pretty harsh when you come to the point in your life when you stop dreaming about the future. You become like all the other drones in the world, part of some sick world domination sci-fi conspiracy, gmo foods, media, everything baracading your moves, but you're comfortable. You're really no better than an ape. And who says you should be? Religion? Should I become a born again? Or buddhist or hadistic jew... It's so hard to find something to believe in when everything is so crappy. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:65580 2008-08-04T19:14:23Z 2008-08-04T19:14:23Z I wanted to write a public entry but don't have anything I want to share so I decided to just submit .. this. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:64834 2008-07-17T20:03:13Z 2008-07-17T20:03:13Z OHHHHHHHHHHHHH PLEASEEE STOP TALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE WHEN PEOPLE HOLD MEETINGS WITH ANNOYING PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I ALMOST YELLED SHUT UP OUT LOUD urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:62573 2008-02-05T05:43:51Z 2008-02-05T05:43:51Z How strange... When I logged into livejournal, my cd case ejected. I hope that's just a coincidence.<br /><br />I'm listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major. It's the most lovely piece of music. I also really love Philip Glass's work in The Hours film score. Daily use of Pandora Radio has perfectly fine tuned my stations to exactly what I like -- sweet and sad melodies. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:59452 2006-10-06T18:11:28Z 2006-10-06T18:11:28Z these are fun to read hahaha <a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/websnare.pdf">http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/websnare.pdf</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:58790 2006-09-23T16:33:20Z 2006-09-23T16:33:20Z hello mo mo mo mo<br> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:54158 2006-03-15T01:00:08Z 2006-03-15T01:00:08Z <a href="http://www.hotelsorrento.com/firesideRoom.html">http://www.hotelsorrento.com/firesideRoom.html</a><br /><br />I'm going. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:49537 2006-01-31T07:26:20Z 2006-01-31T07:26:20Z I keep looking at my databases homework and then finding the nearest distraction from it. <br /><br />I just want someone else to do my databases homework. It's so common sense. Bleh. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:43111 2005-12-14T02:35:10Z 2005-12-14T02:35:10Z I'll go home in about an hour or so... I have to buy some wrapping paper for the sharing tree gifts. I keep on forgetting that! <br /><br />Yesterday I made eggplant rottini. But today, I am still fully expanded from the Taco Salad so I should probably have some carrots and that's it. <br /><br />Katrina got her ears pierced. She was shy to show them off on the Monday so she put her hair down. But she told my mom that all the girls immediately noticed her ears are pierced. <br /><br />They have ping pong, air hockey, and pool here. It's a pretty fun place. If I were to live here, I could assimilate without too much life change. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:42540 2005-12-13T00:05:52Z 2005-12-13T00:05:52Z What does it mean to be successful? If you ask performance psychologist John Eliot, he'll tell you that what most people aim for and train for is mediocrity. They never really get to put their true potential into play.<br /><br />They follow the rules. They buy the prescriptions: Relax. Set Goals. Visualize. Remember a time and place when you were calm and successful.<br /><br />"Such self-improvement balderdash will do nothing but relegate you to a career in mediocrity," Eliot contends. "To see what you're really capable of you have to think abnormally," he says. <br /><br />That state of exceptional performance is what he calls overachievement -- and he believes it's possible to bring it about regularly. "Overachievers," he insists, "don't think reasonably, sensibly or rationally."<br /><br />His advice is unconventional by definition. To ratchet up your performance to the exceptional range, you really have to BE an exception. You have to thrive under pressure -- welcome pressure, enjoy it and make it work to your advantage.<br /><br />Many people, he says, are victims of the false-god syndrome. They think everything goes smoothly for others. They don't realize that everyone else, including star performers, experience rejection and failure even on a daily basis. It's not rejection that distinguishes achievers from nonachievers -- it's the way they handle failure. <br /><br />"Most successful people can share their weaknesses," says Eliot. "They get excited about learning so they can turn weaknesses into strengths."<br /><br />Here's some more of his counterintuitive advice, which he delivers in his book "Overachievement," published this month.<br /><br />• Hard work is overrated. Overachievers know when to stop working at their job and start playing at it. Too much practice can turn you into a classic case of what he calls the "over-motivated underachiever."<br /><br />• Setting goals is for couch potatoes. The longstanding practice of goal-setting is actually a major obstacle to sustained, vigorous motivation -- and being great.<br /><br />• Using your head is stupid. In high-stakes performance, the real genius is someone like Yogi Berra. On his way to 10 World Series rings and a place in the Hall of Fame, Yogi was thinking about... nothing.<br /><br />• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-assurance. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top. <br /><br />• Legends never say they're sorry. Having a long or frequent memory for mistakes and a short or infrequent memory for successes is a guaranteed way to develop fear of failure. High achievers dwell on what they do well -- and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.<br /><br />• The best need stress. Classic breathing and relaxation tend to undermine most performances, eliminating the possibility of setting records. Stress is the high-level performer's Power Bar.<br /><br />• Do put all your eggs in one basket. Unlikely accomplishments are born out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.<br /><br />• Put the "I" in "team." By definition, striving to be exceptional puts you outside the team. If you're a maverick CEO, you're a colorful genius. But if you're a young rogue exec, you're gone ("not a team player" reads your evaluation). The best performers not only think exceptionally, they teach their colleagues to think that way too.<br /><br />• What limits? If you want to find out what you're capable of, you can't put limits on yourself, and you definitely can't be cautious.<br /><br />• Only wimps weight the risk. For exceptional people, risks equal rewards. The challenge of uncertainty is the fun of high-performance -- and that's where overachievement lies.<br /><br /><br /><br />return to top <br /><br />Send this article to a friend <br />View printable version of this article <br />Subscribe to Psychology Today Magazine <br /><br />Publication: Psyched for Success<br />Publication Date: 10 December 2004<br />Last Reviewed: 8 Dec 2005 <br />(Document ID: 3605) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:40477 2005-12-02T01:42:59Z 2005-12-02T01:42:59Z <a href="http://www.lighttounite.org/">http://www.lighttounite.org/</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:40000 2005-11-30T23:34:27Z 2005-11-30T23:34:27Z subject: Win a full scholarship to U of Alberta this summer!<br /><br />Attend one of the following information sessions and your name will be <br />entered in a draw to win a full scholarship to the University of <br />Alberta Summer 2006, 6-week, CANADIAN AND NATIVE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL <br />SUMMER SCHOOL! Catherine Broomfield, from U of Alberta, will offer two <br />information sessions on the summer program in Edmonton next Thursday <br />and Friday. The program typically costs approximately $3,500 US for <br />tuition (10 credits), meals and accommodations (though most students <br />admitted for summer 2006 will also be eligible for a $1,500 <br />scholarship).<br /><br />The UW Canadian Studies Center will accept U of Alberta credits for the <br />minor in Canadian Studies (15 additional UW credits would be required <br />in addition to the U of A summer program). urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:36809 2005-11-03T20:14:42Z 2005-11-03T20:14:42Z YOU ARE RULE 11!<br /><br />You were designed to make sure that attorneys in<br>federal cases make reasonable inquiries into<br>fact and law before submitting pleadings,<br>motions, or other papers. You were a real<br>hardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legal<br>creativity from federal proceedings and<br>embarassed well-meaning but overzealous<br>attorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, when<br>you began allowing plaintiffs to make<br>allegations in their complaints that are likely<br>to have evidenciary support after discovery,<br>and when you allowed a 21 day period for the<br>erring attorney to withdraw the errant motion.<br>Sure, you certainly won't get any brownie<br>points for being outgoing, but you keep things<br>on the up and up. It's pretty clear that the<br>whole operation would fall apart without you<br>around.<br /><br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/WrenchofDelivery/quizzes/Which%20Federal%20Rule%20of%20Civil%20Procedure%20Are%20You%3F/">Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?</a><br> <font size="-2">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:36248 2005-10-30T09:54:12Z 2005-10-30T09:54:12Z i don't want to turn 23. i wish i could stay 22 forever. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:35878 2005-10-29T22:14:38Z 2005-10-29T22:14:38Z My parents have stopped eating chicken! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:35828 2005-10-24T08:24:34Z 2005-10-24T08:24:34Z <table width="350" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#E0EEEE" align="center"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color:black; font-size: 14pt;"><b>You Should Get a PhD in Science (like chemistry, math, or engineering)</b></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#F0FFFF"><center><img src="http://images.blogthings.com/whatadvanceddegreeshouldyougetquiz/phd-science.jpg" height="100" width="100"></center><font color="#000000"><br />You're both smart and innovative when it comes to ideas.<br />Maybe you'll find a cure for cancer - or develop the latest underground drug.</font></td></tr></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/whatadvanceddegreeshouldyougetquiz/">What Advanced Degree Should You Get?</a></div> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:35424 2005-10-20T21:26:31Z 2005-10-20T21:26:31Z AGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EEHHHHHHHHHHH AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh<br /><br />me - i've been seeing this error<br />other - ya me too, when that happens i use a different machine and do a clean build urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:35105 2005-10-14T21:56:15Z 2005-10-14T21:56:15Z i just found a really juicy bug. !!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:34898 2005-10-12T05:39:12Z 2005-10-12T05:39:12Z 10 years ago I was…<br /><br />seattle public schools acting like a poser<br /><br />5 years ago I was…<br /><br />senior year of high school. innocent days.<br /><br />1 year ago I was…<br /><br />coming back from boston. taking a horrible load of classes<br /><br />Yesterday…<br /><br />frustrated over work, stuffing my face with pizza, worrying about applications<br /><br />5 snacks I like…<br /><br />cereal<br />mandarin orange chunks in jello<br />rice pudding<br />lemon pound cake<br />grapes<br />carrots (i guess i had to be a little healthy)<br /><br />5 songs I know all the words to…<br /><br />at last<br />respect<br />think<br />chain chain chain<br />happy birthday<br /><br />5 things I would do with $100mil…<br /><br />build a fantasy world where i am master<br />get plastic surgery<br />be friends with famous people<br />buy a poor country<br />fund enemies oppositions<br /><br />5 place I would run away to…<br /><br />new york<br />france<br />italy<br />africa<br />mall<br /><br /><br />5 things I would never wear…<br /><br />see through<br />spandix<br />poncho<br />jail clothes<br />goth<br /><br />5 favorite TV shows/entertainment…<br /><br />the office<br />top model<br />family guy<br />south park<br />apprentice<br /><br />5 bad habits…<br /><br />skimming over things i’m reading too quickly (bad habit from h.s.)<br />compulsively checking my email<br />putting my hand near my face during conversations<br />being stressed<br />being nervous<br /><br />5 biggest joys…<br /><br />laughing really hard with friends<br />the holiday season and that warm fuzzy feeling<br />traveling to new and exciting places<br />sleeping<br />weekends<br /><br /><br />5 favorite toys…<br /><br />Legos (all the way, baby)<br />boardgames<br />my lappy<br />console video games<br />barbies<br /><br />5 fictional characters I would date… (err, i seriously have never thought about this at all…)<br /><br />Bruce Wayne<br />Clark Kent<br />Peter Parker<br />Bambie<br />Quagmire <br /><br />5 people I tag to do this…<br /><br />anyone number 1<br />anyone number 2<br />anyone number 3<br />anyone number 4<br />anyone number 5 urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:arevask:34763 2005-09-24T19:11:10Z 2005-09-24T19:11:10Z I've been in Oregon for a week now. It feels just like Washington to me but maybe less intimidating. I live in a hotel. It's fun to have everything provided and a maid to clean up. I could get used to this kind of life. :) My job is cool. I have my own laptop and I can even work at home! <br /><br />Meanwhile, the GRE test...next Friday! I'll be home on Thursday! Hopefully I don't have to retake the GRE's because that would SUCK. I already have to get rolling on the applications... starting October. <br /><br />Anyway, EVERYONE come visit me!!! There's a lot to do in Oregon. So if you have a free weekend, come here, come here in a pack to make the drive easier, it'll be fun!