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seem to notice when the months change while at work. I know I’m aware of the change outside of work. But while on the job? Not really. I do notice that I rip the last month off the calendar at least a week into the new month.

Maybe it’s because I started this job at the end of a month? Possible.

Mr. Rabbit (converted Catholic, lapsed, and non-believer) told me some time ago that he was a deist.

Definition from Wikipedia (I know how much people love them some Wikipedia)

Deism is the belief that a supreme God exists and created the physical universe, but shall not intervene in its normal operation. It is related to a religious philosophy and movement that claims to derive the existence and nature of God from reason. It takes no position on what God may do outside the universe. That is in contrast to fideism which is found in many forms of Christianity^[1], Islamic and Judaic teachings, which hold that religion relies on revelation in sacred scriptures or the testimony of other people as well as reasoning.

I am born and raised Roman Catholic… but I am open to other ways of thinking about God and his various actions and their impact on the world as we know it. Mr. Rabbit has said on more than one occasion that I’m “not allowed” to think like that — or that I have to choose a definitive position.

I don’t believe that’s the case at all. Sure, religion is a man-made machine, but free will says that I’m allowed to pick and choose what aspects of the religion I was born into I accept, and which ones I have a different view on.

As I’m still picking through the stockpile of issues Catholics normally have on a variety of things, I don’t think that there is a set list that I can post here.

What do you think? Does someone absolutely have to have a particular religious (or lack thereof) stance? And does it have to be predefined? (like deism, which I didn’t know existed or had a definitive name until a few weeks ago)

Discuss.

Heard today at work:

Today starts Breast Awareness month.

i can eat white chocolate covered gummi bears for “breakfast” and no one can tell me no.

i have 2 + lbs (well, at least I did an hour ago). I can keep going till at least friday.

however, my stomach might protest mightily soon.

It’s always awesome when you reach into a pocket of an item of clothing you haven’t worn in a few months (like a light autumn jacket) and you pull your hand out with money.

There was this one time, several years back, when I pulled out $40. I always think that maybe I’ll be that lucky again. Except now, I just pull out loose change.

$40 when you’re 14, seems like such a bigger deal than when you’re 26.

Don’t ask me to do amazing things on mediums I don’t know how to control (yet).

It’s really not fair.

I’ve come down with some bastardized version of a cold. The day before my birthday. I think my abs are getting one of the best workouts they’ve had in a while — sneezing in sets of 4-5 every 10-20 minutes. Ugh.

or rather… internet-less at home. After experiencing some of the most fantastic thunderstorms I have ever witnessed on Long Island, I was faced with the bitter truth — it had blown out our cable, and therefore also our internet.

I caught my parents looking out over the torrential downpour battering our street, but was also struck by the same sense of nostalgia. It was a rainstorm straight out of the Philippines.

Thankfully, we still had power.

Maybe it will be back once I get home tonight.

Let’s see. I feel like I haven’t posted in ages. My work days feel like work MONTHS. I’ve only been at the workday, where day=month thing for about a month and a half, which means I should be done with half a year right now.

So in those mental 6 months, I’ve sprained my ankle, fallen in the workplace, filed for workers comp (oh, wait, that’s all one thing), have logged in more overtime hours than I care to count — knowing that I don’t get paid overtime (I do know that for every normal 2 weeks of work I do, there’s at least a bit more than a week of overtime in there), been so swamped with work, that’s all I can see…

Um. All I can remember from the last 6 weeks is work stuff. And I can’t remember why I checked off ‘books’ in the Categories section.

I decided I’ll be taking the GREs in the next 12 months from now. No, I’m not solidly planning on attending grad school, I just think the test taking part of it will be fun.

Yes, I used ‘test-taking’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence. I’m such a nerd. Sue me. I’ve always been the kid that everyone hated in grade school through high school. I’d barely make an effort in lecture, but come test taking time — I’d breeze through with extra time to spare. It’s an art, I’m telling all of you. It took time to be perfected. New grade, new obstacles to overcome.

It’s like I told my interviewer from a long past interview: I love the idea of a great challenge. And I hate being bored. Taking the GREs later serves both those statements. The GRE seems to cripple most people’s lives. I’d like to give it a go. If I get an awesome score — that’s really great, then I could possibly look at grad school, just for the hell of it — I have no such need of things yet. And prepping for the tests will give me something else to fill up my non-work minutes. Should be interesting.

Along with possibly taking the GREs in my future (without the certainty of attending grad school after that), I’ve also picked up a book on HTML/CSS/beginners SSI and one on “Tagalog for non-native speakers”. Of those two, the latter is posing far greater a challenge. I’m fine with pronunciation, having grown up with it all my life. I know a great deal of the words, again, having grown up in such an environment. I’m completely baffled as to sentence structure and basic grammar. Nearly 26, and the Tagalog comprehension of a 2 year old (possibly less).

I make such an awesome Filipino.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.  ~Albert Einstein

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,  but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. ~Benjamin Franklin