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Today is Setting Orange, day 51 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3167

... and I am in a foul mood. My front brakes are hosed, I have a cracked rotor on one side, and now I get to gingerly go out and find someone to replace them. At least I already have all the parts, so it's not going to cost a couple hundred dollars (I hope). I'm struggling putting this object-oriented stuff into practice in my beginning PHP class. I'm undercaffeinated. I'm mentally exhausted. I want to go and see my nieces and nephews. Maybe I'll go to the gym and get on the elliptical for an hour. No, wait...don't trust brakes, can't do that right now. *sigh*


It seems the Cap'n Crunch whistles are also the exact same frequency as the cat satellite, as my cat started freaking out when he heard it on the TLC show on hackers we were watching last night.

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Self-Esteem Index
Your score = 67 (Medium)

According to this test, you have a reasonably high level of self-esteem. There is still, however, a lot of space for improvement. You need to realize that everybody has self-doubts, and everybody fails at some point - it's just part of the human experience. Trouble begins when you take failure so seriously that you anticipate the worst from the future. It becomes a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy: you expect something bad to happen and thus act in a way that increases the chance of it really happening. The expectation of failure, lingering in the back of your mind, intrudes on your life. It influences how much effort you are willing to invest and how long you stick things out when faced with challenges. You may very well have the ability and the desire to succeed, but expecting failure can keep you from responding to difficulty with adaptive decision-making and action. Such behavior will increase the likelihood of failure, which in turn confirms what you expected in the first place! It's a vicious circle...but one you can get out of!