Joanne Budzien
@JBudzien
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Science Education Enthusiast and Engineer Enjoying the Journey
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Joined July 2012
Or I can take medicine and trundle off to bed to read a few pages of The Wizard of Oz before I doze off.
The number one thing you should be doing right now is catastrophizing and panicking. Stop exercising. Stop reading books. Eat like shit. Fuck up your sleep schedule. Eschew fresh air. Doom scroll all day.
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Someone has never hit the physical limits and it shows. I have had eyes refuse to focus and wrists that will no longer support the book yet the lectern is inadequate for a smaller book.
Reading has zero downside. Itâs one of the highest roi activities available, and everyone has time for it. It takes away from nothing but gives to everything. Choosing not to read is silly, and honestly stupid. Itâs as bad as not exercising.
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Schubert's Unfinished Symphony https://t.co/t9v2srBIMQ
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Dude, Hamburger Hill is not worth that effort.
Henceforth I shall only reply to rebuttals by citing the offending logical fallacy committed. Unless itâs actually a well-framed rebuttal, in which case I shall gird mine fruitful loins and lustily engage in rigorous debate!
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Nope. I tone it down for Twitter. I don't even track all the books I read on Twitter.
Are you the same person on twitter that you are in real life?
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K.
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Oh, no, you don't. I've already got The Wizard of Oz right here as my next book. I am not getting suckered into walking into the next room to get my copy of The Jungle.
When you were assigned âThe Jungleâ but you put it off and now you have to read it all in one night
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Yeah, I thought I'd check back in on the internet. Good: book recommendation that resulted in an Amazon order. Trusting you, dude. Bad: well, I'm going back to the book I'm reading because it's more cheerful. Carrie and Tommy are at the prom and voting has begun.
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I am unclear why you want me to feel "this author attended a writing workshop and therefore labors over every sentence instead of telling a story", but K.
The best descriptions make the reader FEEL something. âA messy roomâ tells us nothing. âEmpty takeout boxes stacked like a cardboard skylineâ tells us everything.
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Oh you think the printing press was a good thing? who told you that, a book?
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I think I understand why there's the stereotype of high-power people berating others lol. It's just really clear to them in some areas what's the obviously right thing to be done AND incomprehensible that others can't tell/aren't seeing it and thus don't do it. Hence -> anger
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Anyone know how to turn off auto translation? I'm following certain accounts explicitly for the language to be shiny gold nuggets in the feed.
Ăa Ăže cweĂ°aĂ° âAngolcynn is gefallenâ sculon ec cweĂ°an âAnd hit scĂŚl eft arisan.â
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After the first week, I turned down the marriage proposal. After the first month, I proposed and was accepted. 6 months later, we were married. 30+y later, no regrets. The 0300 worry now is we might only have another 30y together.
The person who became your best friend, you probably didnât know it the day you met them. You probably got to know them week by week, month by month, until at some point you realized you couldnât imagine life without them. Itâs the same way with developing a passion.
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Remember, the only penis that really matters in the world is your happiness.
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No, I'm still evaluating whether the email to the boss is WFH today or "dude, I'm taking Nyquil and going back to bed again today".
as soon as you finish reading this you will forget what you were thinking of
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reading, like most skills, is best improved obliquely. don't try to kickstart a reading habit, but simply ask: what am I most interested in? drill down to one topic, and then google for books on that topic. don't read to read, read to get deeper into things you already care about
Reading a book is a form of rehab for your attention span.
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'To read great books does not mean one becomes 'bookish'; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader ...' JC Powys
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The last photo I took was of a student presenting at a professional conference; he wanted photos to send to his commanding officer. The photos before that were of student projects in my classes >10 years ago. If it's deceptive to help students document their work, then guilty.
Genuine question: are women aware they're being deceptive by shooting only at specific angles or doctoring photos? I assume the answer is yes but I really don't know (saying women here because I don't know men to do this)
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