Friday, November 27, 2009

Thanksgiving Quote

"...and it was never but once a year that they were brought together anyway, and that was on the neutral, dereligionized ground of Thanksgiving, when everybody gets to eat the same thing, nobody sneaking off to eat funny stuff—no kugel, no gefilte fish, no bitter herbs, just one colossal turkey for two hundred and fifty million people—one colossal turkey feeds all. A moratorium on funny foods and funny ways and religious exclusivity, a moratorium on the three-thousand-year-old nostalgia of the Jews, a moratorium on Christ and the cross and the crucifixion for the Christians, when everyone in New Jersey and elsewhere can be more passive about their irrationalities than they are the rest of the year. A moratorium on all the grievances and resentments . . . for everyone in America who is suspicious of everyone else. It is the American pastoral par excellence and it lasts twenty-four hours.” —Philip Roth

Friday, November 20, 2009

anxiety...or excitement

They just posted 3 new jobs in my department. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want one of them..but there is going to be some majorly stiff competition. I feel so anxious. I knew this day was coming, but now its here...I want to run and hide. Ugh.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Decisions, decisions.....

Yesterday I made a decision! It was a HUGE weight off of my shoulders, I didn't even realize how much I had been burdened by the process. I am excited about my prospects, in fact, I am content exactly where I am...for the time being. :)