goal!

[jazzfish]

How to watch the football: "I write this article to explain how you too can have a good time watching the football that you care about not." A vital primer. In particular: "Beer is such a complicated subject that, at several points during the evening, even the television will express an opinion on it. Ignore this."

Soon to be the best cookbook ever. From the best blog post on cooking ever, which I've linked to from here before but which deserves extra exposure.

The newest Girlyman! I got to see JJ play with the trio last October, and, yeah. Their sound did in fact get bigger and better and generally even more awesome than could possibly be imagined. So, yay for more Girlyshows with "JJ, who communicates by hitting things." Incidentally, they'll be at Jammin' Java on March 13 although tickets are not yet available.

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At Cat Vacuuming last night we were discussing writing-related New Year's resolutions. Renee said "I resolved to take some time each day to do something writing-related. This week I did something every day except Saturday." My immediate thought was "oh, i guess that didn't work, so maybe aim for five days a week or something like that?" Before I could open my mouth she went on, "So, it's really working! I'm doing so much more writing now!"

Which, yeah, it is. The point's not to do something every day, it's to get more writing done. I lose track of that. I focus on the metric rather than the goal, and if I were to write for six days instead of seven I'd be saying "okay, i guess that was alright, next time i'll make it seven," not "awesome, i did way more writing because of that!"

I'd really like to think of things like Renee does. To focus on the good things I do instead of how I didn't measure up to some arbitrary standard which isn't there to be measured up to anyway. That feels like something that requires a pretty deep rewiring of my brain.

Comments

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

This is perfectly normal. It's like Vancian spellcasting: you are a first-level football watcher, and so your brain can only retain one sentence of football. Once you work your way up to third level, you will be able to understand the second sentence, which is this: "Galanzaghire zel felvnic nil combustavlio der panta zel infeild flie rule."

♥ thank you for this link.

[jazzfish]

Zarf (Andrew Plotkin) is perhaps the oddest and most awesome person I know. ("Do I contain myself? Very well then, I contain myself. I am large; I contain... recursion.") I suspect you'd greatly enjoy browsing his Left Foot Living Review; the first issue contains a review of "E. Coli Legos."

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you can congratulate yourself for improving without lying to yourself about meeting goals. That girl is a liar.

[jazzfish]

I don't know if I /can/, is the thing. If I improve but don't meet the goal, all I see is that I missed the goal.

Renee missed her goal and didn't care (and didn't say "i made my resolution!" but only "it's working!"), because the goal wasn't the point.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Ah. Here's goal #1 for you: decide to be happy. :)

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

It is well-known that my Superbowl party is about playing board games and not about actually watching football. In fact, even though I was having the party the year of the Wardrobe Malfunction, we all missed it because we were too engrossed in Settlers of Catan. The reason I have one is because, well... none of my other friends watch football either so it's a nicely unclaimed "holiday". People claim to want to watch the commercials so we DVR them, but really we just play games. :)

[jazzfish]

You watch neither the football. . . nor the ads? Is that allowed? :)