While I would love to slap a nametag on everyone I come in contact with, somehow I don’t think it would endear me to anyone. Gretchen Rubin, of the Happiness Project (blog and forthcoming book), has some wonderful strategies to handle “young-heimers” with grace and humor. Check out her latest blog entry:
The Happiness Project: Six [...]
I have always looked upon the Mainer’s faith in duct tape as a cure-all with a mixture of horror (they use it to mend books!), fascination (they use it to mend tears in car upholstery!), and amusement (they use it to mend their children’s potty mouths! – no, I’m kidding… they do no such thing… [...]
In grad school, I was known among my colleagues and the faculty as being super-organized. In fact, I was the butt of a lot of good humored ribbing after my advisor innocently mentioned at a student/faculty mixer in my first year that I had plotted out my entire grad school career in an Excel workbook [...]