Are you a duchenne smiler (genuine) or pan american smiler (fake...and yep, it was named in honor of the doomed airline's flight attendants)? Can you distinguish between fake smiles and genuine ones? I got 13 out of 20 correct but, contrary to popular results, I recognized most of the fake ones and missed more of the genuine smiles. Am I overly pessimistic or has half a lifetime of public service schooled me too well in the art of recognizing bull&hit when I see it :)
Visit Retrospectacle for the article on how smiles are perceived, (sorry Japanese patrons! I'll try not to be so insensitive in the future) and click the BBC quiz link after the second great photo of Mr. Smile to see how well you tell the difference. If you think about it, come back and comment on your results and how you feel about your bull&hitometer...
*smiling genuinely, I promise*
htw
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
an EXCELLENT prognosis ! ! !
*enter the fanfare and trumpets, a few elephants, some tigers, a peacock and a chinchilla (just cuz they're cute!)*
Dr. L was über-thrilled at my progress, as was I, and I start a 5 week weaning process on the morrow! I'm nervous about not having the medicinal support, but at the same time pretty proud that I've managed to start beating the noonday demon. Will I be able to handle my own emotions without the medication? Have my emotional muscles gone lax with inactivity? I guess we'll see...but I'm feeling pretty strong about it at this point. I will go see the counseling therapist as often as I feel like I need to, but I will only have to go to Dr. L periodically for any meds I may need. My goal is to be off the Effexor all together by the end of the year if I can and as I said, I'm feeling pretty confident right now.
night ya'll!
htw
Dr. L was über-thrilled at my progress, as was I, and I start a 5 week weaning process on the morrow! I'm nervous about not having the medicinal support, but at the same time pretty proud that I've managed to start beating the noonday demon. Will I be able to handle my own emotions without the medication? Have my emotional muscles gone lax with inactivity? I guess we'll see...but I'm feeling pretty strong about it at this point. I will go see the counseling therapist as often as I feel like I need to, but I will only have to go to Dr. L periodically for any meds I may need. My goal is to be off the Effexor all together by the end of the year if I can and as I said, I'm feeling pretty confident right now.
night ya'll!
htw
a blog post after my own heart...
this post from The Loom, which I found through Seed Magazine's Daily Zeitgeist, truly resonates with me.
I decided, not long after the most recent tattoo, that my next one will be book/library science-related. I have some intense research to do in order to come up with exactly what I want, but the topic is set. Maybe next year some time but who knows if I'll be able to last that long. I don't know if it works that way for everyone, but once I got one I jonesed for the second and now it's even worse! I'd go out and get one after work tonight if I could come up with something I wanted but I'm not a bit impulsive about my tats. They result from research and introspection which I can't get my mother or my best friend to understand.
My roomie (the best friend) already told me that when she gets married I'll be wearing a shawl to cover the one on my back, but now I have a pretty big on on my right forearm so I guess I'll be wearing gloves now too...where, oh where, should my next tattoo go so she can't cover it up without me walking down the aisle in the coveted maid-of-honor position covered in a garbage bag?
teeheeheee ;)
htw
I decided, not long after the most recent tattoo, that my next one will be book/library science-related. I have some intense research to do in order to come up with exactly what I want, but the topic is set. Maybe next year some time but who knows if I'll be able to last that long. I don't know if it works that way for everyone, but once I got one I jonesed for the second and now it's even worse! I'd go out and get one after work tonight if I could come up with something I wanted but I'm not a bit impulsive about my tats. They result from research and introspection which I can't get my mother or my best friend to understand.
My roomie (the best friend) already told me that when she gets married I'll be wearing a shawl to cover the one on my back, but now I have a pretty big on on my right forearm so I guess I'll be wearing gloves now too...where, oh where, should my next tattoo go so she can't cover it up without me walking down the aisle in the coveted maid-of-honor position covered in a garbage bag?
teeheeheee ;)
htw
potter humor
okay, at first I was not amused by this, but it's under 3 minutes so I decided to muscle through....I'm so glad I did :)
ta ta,
htw
ta ta,
htw
another del Toro....
Premiering December 28th, El Orfanato (The Orphanage) is only being produced by Del Toro but I'll be rushing to the theater nonetheless! A single mom decides to convert her childhood home into an orphanage, her son then acquires an "imaginary friend" who seems a little too solid, and screaming ensues. There's a great still of this really creepy kid/ghost/undead person/monster (SEE ABOVE) in a kinda horrifying burlap sack mask. It reminds me of some of the images I've seen for the new Joker in the upcoming Batman flick. (He'll forever be Jack Nicholson to me, though) Looks good, looks creepy, although it does bear a startling resemblance, in topic if not in time period, to El Espinazo del diablo so we'll see if any great differences pan out.
sweet dreams!
htw
it's on!
I have been closely following this film since I first read about it on Cinematical. Since then I've bought my own copy of the graphic novel, the first I've read that I liked...nay, LOVED! The images are so good, so scary. Just enough is shown that you know the rest that you can't see, you don't really want to see....wonderfully icky!bon appetite!
htw
Monday, August 6, 2007
okay, I admit it!
concerned friends will cheer to the fact that I've finally started the Harry Potter books, in audio, but I've started. Jim Dale is everything various friends have made him out to be...what a great narration talent! I have an hour commute one way to work so it takes only a few days to do away with a 7 CD book. Seven CD's = ~8 hours which in turn = ~4 days.
I'm noticing that OOTP has 23 CD's and 26 hours and 30 minutes so that'll take roughly 2 weeks to listen to with no outside trips anywhere. Probably GOF will be that long as well, maybe DH too. I'm particularly excited that it won't take me 7 years to finish the series as it has everyone else. Harry Potter....no lines, no waiting :)
On other fronts, I have my 3 month appointment with my therapist tomorrow and we are hopefully going to start the process of weaning off the antidepressant. I've been out of school now for a month, been on vacation, started going places after work with friends...just in general getting out more. I feel good, happier than I have in a long time. I signed up for an art class at the Museum in the fall, book making by hand, and am looking forward to that eagerly. Art on the Rocks is coming up soon also and it's toga night! I have instructions for making a toga all printed out, I just need to choose some fabric and decide just how over the top I'm willing to go :) I want the Vespa!!!
Gotta run! It's my shift on the reference desk!
htw
I'm noticing that OOTP has 23 CD's and 26 hours and 30 minutes so that'll take roughly 2 weeks to listen to with no outside trips anywhere. Probably GOF will be that long as well, maybe DH too. I'm particularly excited that it won't take me 7 years to finish the series as it has everyone else. Harry Potter....no lines, no waiting :)
On other fronts, I have my 3 month appointment with my therapist tomorrow and we are hopefully going to start the process of weaning off the antidepressant. I've been out of school now for a month, been on vacation, started going places after work with friends...just in general getting out more. I feel good, happier than I have in a long time. I signed up for an art class at the Museum in the fall, book making by hand, and am looking forward to that eagerly. Art on the Rocks is coming up soon also and it's toga night! I have instructions for making a toga all printed out, I just need to choose some fabric and decide just how over the top I'm willing to go :) I want the Vespa!!!
Gotta run! It's my shift on the reference desk!
htw
holley reads lulu and loves it!
I just posted this on my library's blog but I am SO excited about this book that I'll put it here too! Even if you do not normally read this genre (I sure don't), give it a try and see if you don't find something to love about Mia McMurry, I dare you! I will give a bit of a break to those who have absolutely no interest in chick lit. I have OCCASIONALLY read something I liked in that genre so I'm not 100% opposed to it and this books proves that there are writers out there with the cajones to do something different. That this is a debut novel amazes me even more...I've read alot of them and they usually have a certain roughness in common but I did not find evidence of it here. For those interested, read on. For those not, read on of course!
:)
Move over Sophie Kinsella! Clear a path Lauren Weisberger! Jennifer Weiner just needs to go home! Let me introduce you to my new favorite person, Mia McMurry! In Danielle Ganek’s debut novel, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, she introduces the reader to the world of the gallery girl.
Known for their condescending attitudes and general snobbery gallerinas have acquired quite a nasty reputation that Mia is determined to get rid of single-handedly simply through courtesy. She’s nice to all of the artists, dealers, and collectors who shove their way through the hard-to-open doors of the Simon Pryce Gallery in New York’s Chelsea art scene.
One artist in particular has her smitten (in a sweet kind of way, Mia has sworn off dating any artists or members of their entourage) at the moment and he DEFINITELY doesn’t fit the mold of hot emerging artist. Quite the opposite, Jeffrey Finelli is a short round fifty-eight year old man missing one arm. The night of his very first opening, the pinnacle of his career, the unexpected happens and Jeffrey is struck by a cab and killed. Instantly the popular opinion on his artwork goes from ho-hum effort to ultra in-demand must have and this is most especially true of his masterpiece painting entitled Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, a figurative painting of his niece as a young girl.
As demand heats up for the titular painting, a buffoonish competition erupts between greedy gallery owners, back stabbing collectors with more money than brains and Jeffrey’s niece Lulu who feels she should get the painting because her uncle promised it to her. Mia is torn between loyalty to her eccentric boss, the affection of a new friendship with Lulu, and the possibility of love from an unexpected (and unwelcome) direction. Mia’s in trouble alright, but she finds that years of social training in New York’s Chelsea art scene have toughened her in unexpected ways and she just may be able to come out ahead of the game.
afternoon ya'll!
htw
:)
Move over Sophie Kinsella! Clear a path Lauren Weisberger! Jennifer Weiner just needs to go home! Let me introduce you to my new favorite person, Mia McMurry! In Danielle Ganek’s debut novel, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, she introduces the reader to the world of the gallery girl.
“They call us gallerinas. We’re generally considered a
loathsome breed, gallery receptionists. Aren’t we represented almost
universally as obnoxious, entitled, pretty girls in great clothes? Yes,
yes, stock characters in miniature art-world dramas, we’re pretentious creatures in intellectual fashion and high heels, dripping with attitude and sarcasm, rolling our eyes at visitors requesting something as mundane as the price list. God forbid you want to know where the bathroom is.”
Known for their condescending attitudes and general snobbery gallerinas have acquired quite a nasty reputation that Mia is determined to get rid of single-handedly simply through courtesy. She’s nice to all of the artists, dealers, and collectors who shove their way through the hard-to-open doors of the Simon Pryce Gallery in New York’s Chelsea art scene.
One artist in particular has her smitten (in a sweet kind of way, Mia has sworn off dating any artists or members of their entourage) at the moment and he DEFINITELY doesn’t fit the mold of hot emerging artist. Quite the opposite, Jeffrey Finelli is a short round fifty-eight year old man missing one arm. The night of his very first opening, the pinnacle of his career, the unexpected happens and Jeffrey is struck by a cab and killed. Instantly the popular opinion on his artwork goes from ho-hum effort to ultra in-demand must have and this is most especially true of his masterpiece painting entitled Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, a figurative painting of his niece as a young girl.
As demand heats up for the titular painting, a buffoonish competition erupts between greedy gallery owners, back stabbing collectors with more money than brains and Jeffrey’s niece Lulu who feels she should get the painting because her uncle promised it to her. Mia is torn between loyalty to her eccentric boss, the affection of a new friendship with Lulu, and the possibility of love from an unexpected (and unwelcome) direction. Mia’s in trouble alright, but she finds that years of social training in New York’s Chelsea art scene have toughened her in unexpected ways and she just may be able to come out ahead of the game.
afternoon ya'll!
htw
Friday, August 3, 2007
wow.....
According to NASA:
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of
the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations,
scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land
surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every
square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.
Visit their Visible Earth page for more images!
evenin' ya'll!
htw
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
FINALLY ! ! !
Someone rants about the postumous and co-authoring publication trend...Robert Ludlum has been publishing like mad despite the fact that he died about 6 years ago. V.C. Andrews' series refuses to die (there are even releases being scheduled for 2008) although she herself began pushing up daisies in 1986.
My favorite line from the article (which anyone remotely interested in the book/publishing industry should read):
evenin' ya'll!
htw
My favorite line from the article (which anyone remotely interested in the book/publishing industry should read):
I say it’s time to create another new bestseller list:
Books Supposedly By Famous Bestselling Authors But Really Not.
Then we could free up some spots on the real list for new good writers who haven’t had a chance to “build their brand.”
evenin' ya'll!
htw
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