Blogspot, how we love thee

I'm not one for fighting over which blog service is the best, but I just have to say that when the people that brought us Google Moon and Google Earth use Blogspot for their blog, then you know these blogspot guys have something good going on.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com

A Question

The title of my blog is a partial quotation from T.S. Eliot. He says, "For us, there is only the trying." I have always really liked this quotation because it reminds me why we fail and why we need to try again anyways.

Ever since I started referring to this quotation, many people through email or comments have countered with a quotation from a more well known, though perhaps less credible source. I am continually reminded that Yoda says, "Do or do not. There is no try."

So which one is more important? Should we look at our actions and goals as mere attempts and keep on, or should we only do, with no option for failure?

P.S. Should we consider the source, or just the value of what was said?

My Night is A Great Night

My laundry is clean. My hair is clean. My room is clean. I made dinner enough for roommate number 2 and I to eat.

Now I am watching the Documentary-on-Deep-Sea-Life-that-I-Got-on-Netflix-
when-My-Roommates-weren't-Looking-and-now-must-watch-so-
that-they-aren't-Mad-at-Me. It is very cool. I have to watch it with all the lights on because I am scared (just a little) of fish, and deep see fish are the scariest. It is very dramatic and I am sure my roommates will regret not watching it. Probably.

It's amazing how much doing the little things in life can make you feel better about the great big things.

Exhaustion

So this is what it feels like.

For all those out there in blog world who pray, would you?

A New Pet-Peeve

My new pet peeve is babies who have blogs. The baby cannot write, therefore it is their mother pretending to be her baby writing a blog. The results are universally disgusting. Babies are cute, but most of the time they have nothing to say that would interest a reader. This is particularly the case when the baby isn't old enough to speak.

A mother who feels the need to pretend to be her baby in any way seems a little strange to me. Write like an adult about your baby if you really feel the need to record your new child's every move on the internet.

People are weird.

A Strange Quiz

I thought the results were somewhat weird. I have no "modernist" or materialist in me. What does that mean?

You scored as Romanticist. Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down.

Fundamentalist		69%
Romanticist		69%
Cultural Creative		63%
Existentialist		38%
Postmodernist		31%
Idealist		31%
Modernist		0%
Materialist		0%

What is Your World View? (updated)
created with QuizFarm.com

Lunch Breaks

Normally, right about now I would begin counting the minutes until my lunch break (we're at 14 minutes at the start of this post), but lunch breaks aren't worth anticipating if you don't have someone pleasant to spend them with. Come back, lunch-break-partner. What do people who work at normal offices with no friends do at lunch time?

"The Children" are incredibly energetic. I am kind of amazed that Kathy can still stand. I was with them for a few hours and it was exhausting. Undeniably adorable, but exhausting.

9 mintues...

Boss-Lady

My boss is leaving early today. This has no actual bearing on what I do or how much I have to do, but for some reason it lifts my spirits like little other can here at EIP. Being boss-less is a wonderful feeling. I sit here at my desk and think to myself, "I could get up and leave right now, just because I wanted to!" I can't, of course, because the other ruler of the office is still staring me square in the face. The Tyrannical Time Card never lets me go home early, even when Boss-Lady does.

So for now I keep my little boss-less butt stuck to my chair and look forward to visiting Kathy and "The Children" tonight.