brain, thursday edition

• smiling.  i finally figured out why i dislike one of my co-workers.  it's because he never smiles!  what about smiling makes us trust or like people?
• bed head.  when i sleep alone, i sleep in the middle of my bed.  it took about a year to feel comfortable with that.  feels good.
• tactless.  i've been, perhaps, a bit impatient and insensitive to a couple of friends about relationships in the past few weeks.  maybe also abrasive and uncompromising.
• lesson learned, again.  no matter how correct and timely your work is, if it is poorly packaged (typos, inconsistent formatting) it'll get picked apart.  note to self, take the extra steps to really finish things.
• jealousy and the fear of abandonment.  hard feelings to deal with.  what can you do with it except to try to let it go?
• doing it.  i yelled excitedly to michael last night, "i have a new life plan!  i'm going to take the gre!"  then i realized, that's not a life plan, but that's thinking 2 months in advance, which is more than i usually do.  small steps, right?