oloriel | Much going on.

As always. Applied for four jobs. One job called back and want me to do sample work. Yay? Autumn is coming in so the garden is crying for me even louder than usual. ~~I unearthed a tater troll and desperately need to make a picture book about her. NaNo?~~ Mission Self-sufficiency is still far from being accomplished but still in progress. The weekend will probably bring me new bees to replace the ones that were stolen. (They must have been stolen. Yes, bees sometimes up and leave, but they generally don't take the entire contents of the honey super - frames included! - with them when they swarm, no?) The kids are growing so fast. Kindergarten continues to be a challenge. (A child that can read and write somehow doesn't cooperate well when asked to sit in a circle and name things that are yellow. WHO KNOWS WHY.) Etc. etc.

elenbarathi linked to an awesome article: Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Do It. While I'm trying to make my sample work extra-perfect, I'm also trying to internalise its content. And probably everybody should. Be happy, that is. IT IS SCIENCE! (Actually, the whole Bakadesuyo blog is full of interesting stuff. So thanks,

elenbarathi!) Seriously though, I find that I've acquired a few attitudes that Shawn identifies in the past years (I'd say that Ich habe mir eine gewisse Entspanntheit antrainiert) and while it definitely hasn't made me more succesful (yet), it certainly has made me more... content? More at peace with myself and my life, anyway. (Most of the time. I relapse into self-doubt, frustration and impostor syndrome regularly, of course. But I get out of it. That's the key, I guess.) So this study is proving me right, which is of course why I'm convinced that it is ALL TRUE!

Back to being busy, in a happy way! Talk to you later (possibly)...