Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Craigslist lost+found find

Lost: 2007


Reply to: comm-524884626@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-01, 5:29AM EST


I dunno what happened but I was out partying tonight and sometime around 12am I lost 2007. I looked everywhere but all I could find was 2008.

If anyone finds 2007, could you let me know?
It was such a good year. I'll miss it.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Happiness = Reality - Expectations

I've had this 'Fortune Cookie' on my Facebook page for a while now...I haven't insisted on a daily renewal since I fell upon it. Me, the girl of high expectations, maybe this little internet application tidbit this was to be a life lesson. But only today do I notice the actual mathematicality (is that a word) of the thing. Expectations are subtracted from Reality, and not vice versa. So E has to be greater than R in order for H to be positive. I don't like this fortune much anymore.

But I did like the components, and that for any H to be resultant, E had to be taken away. But what if, like in my case, E is almost always greater than R. Can you have a negative H? Or is that just sadness (S)? Or have I finally, after two paragraphs of ranting, come to the obvious morale that one should NOT have high E's? That R is what indeed produces H? Dream no longer, great world, it is useless!

This forces me to look more intensely at R. And indeed, if there were no E, R, and consequently H, would soar through the roof. Am I the E to be surpressed in this equation? And how can I lower E without just saying "well, I'll lower E and that will be that, bingo, instant ++H..." Easy peasy. Or do I need a different R to lower E?

This is just another reason Facebook complexifies my life.