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November 25, 2011
opposites
"There are dreamers and there are realists in this world, you think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. See the dreamers need the realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground" - Modern Family
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Posted by azileretsis at 09:33 AM | Comments (0)
November 17, 2011
goat rodeo
If I ever go senile, just put Goat Rodeo Sessions (YouTube) on repeat and leave me be. It is soothing to my mind.
A Goat Rodeo AKA Goat Rope, is about the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario that requires about 100 things to go right at once if you intend to walk away from it.
Posted by azileretsis at 07:53 AM | Comments (1)
November 09, 2011
debt
I love this The Economist interactive graphic. I inputted US vs. Italy. They don't look as bad as us.
Posted by azileretsis at 06:19 PM | Comments (0)
charlie
I have been missing Charlie this week. As a college student, I worked many odd jobs from serving as a temp receptionist for a busy graphic design office to tutoring to working in our school's International Students office. However, my favorite job then and ever since was the job I got my senior year in college. Looking back, I'm not sure how I was qualified for the position but I worked as a community facilitator for mentally disabled adults and autistic teenagers and adults.
Among my job description, I was to take people around to community events and serve as facilitator for them at these events. Instead of me acting as the ambassador, they acted as an ambassador to me in the community since in my college community, I was the outsider but not them.
Charlie knew more people in my community than I would ever know. When I first met him, he had been a part of this community for fifty plus years. Tied to his patterns, he was always drawn to the small mall that we had in our college town. It was easy to understand why. Everyone in the mall knew him. More importantly, he knew them.
The years after I left my college community, I would occasionally go back to my college town. When I had a chance to visit the mall, I would look to see if Charlie was around. One of the last times I got to visit, he was and of course, he recognized me and gave me a hug. It was like I had never left. Something about cool Autumn days that makes me miss Charlie.
Posted by azileretsis at 04:05 PM | Comments (0)
November 08, 2011
anyone
I love the title of this The Economist article: Unemployment: Those silly young people
There are now 3.3m unemployed workers between the ages of 25 and 34. That's more than twice the level in 2007. There are over 2m unemployed college graduates of all ages; nearly three times the level of 2007.
Be careful what you pick as your college major. Mine has a 5.6% unemployment rate and it wasn't an easy major like Art History or Puppetry.
Posted by azileretsis at 05:03 PM | Comments (0)