#six stuff

[haniawritesthings]

Ask me things while I write !

[iffandwhenidie]

graduation vibes

[iffandwhenidie]

... and this is something a lot of people will tell you after the long slog toward whatever you're working on. There's a day where you go 'oh, I kind of feel like myself.' You know? It's like, even though you were yourself all those other days, you go 'Oh! This is kind of what I want to feel like. I want to feel like I can get my hands around life.'

Merlin Mann, Back to Work #3: The Second Arrow

[iffandwhenidie]

A lot of the self-talk that we do in what feels like an impossible situation is really us trying to make the thing seem more impossible, because the more impossible something feels, the less agency we have in feeling like we can change it... Maybe it's that you don't have to learn how to like it, but you have to learn to accept the part that feels impossible right now, look at the things that could be improved, and then think about how you can 'Steve McQueen' your way out.

Merlin Mann, Back To Work #79

[iffandwhenidie]

If you’re like me, you’ve had the misfortune of seeing literally any commercial Geico has put out in the last few years- I think it’s fair to say that they’re almost all terrible. This one not only has terrible music, but also it has these fucking doors.

A) Why do the doors say PUSH on one side but not PULL on the other B) Did they build a set of doors just for this ad? So far as I’m aware, fire codes require doors to open outwards so that a crowd of people can’t get trapped by being unable to open the doors (bonus: harder to break into if the doors open outwards)

[iffandwhenidie]

rainsocks said: you should have pegs and string and stuff in that backboard

I got it from Drexel a few months ago when a lab was throwing it out- I don’t have a good use for it yet though. I kinda wanna hang it in my room for climbing stuff, but I don’t have any room for it because I live in a shoebox

[iffandwhenidie]

Just finished another fluids paper

I just spent 10 hours and 2200 words tearing some poor grad student’s paper apart. Fluids kinda suck, but this paper was about electricity and magnetism, so it was pretty neat

[iffandwhenidie]

conversation with a guy on my stoop

Me: You're really gonna throw a lit cigarette into that recycling bin full of paper?

Guy: It's a public trash can.

Me: It's blue; it says recycling; it has my name on it.