Daily Horoscope for Aquarius

Stress
pushes you to make choices, yet you cannot resolve the differences
between your head and your heart. It feels like you must neglect a part
of yourself either way, but this is just an illusion. Go ahead and make
your decision the best you can. And then, as the planets move and the
pressure lifts, you will know that you did the right thing.

Monday, September 11, 2006

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Stress
pushes you to make choices, yet you cannot resolve the differences
between your head and your heart. It feels like you must neglect a part
of yourself either way, but this is just an illusion. Go ahead and make
your decision the best you can. And then, as the planets move and the
pressure lifts, you will know that you did the right thing.  

Monday, September 11, 2006

And created in Wikihow.  lol. i am so addicted to wikihow.  They have how's on EVERYTHING!!! 

ARE YOU A HOPELESS ROMANTIC or A NON? 

How to Date a Hopelessly Romantic Person When You Are Not Hopelessly Romantic

Are
you with someone who's captivated by love stories, candlelit dinners,
and old-fashioned chivalry? If you and your significant other have very
different ideas of what romance should be, here's how to come to terms
with your differences.

The Illusionist is one of the best movies I've seen in years.

Watch it.  It's Edward Norton. Enough said.

I just saw the most interesting film.

Prelude to a Kiss.

This is the synopisis on Wikipedia:
Prelude to a Kiss is an 1992 American (fantasy/romantic)
film that tells the story of a couple that falls in love despite the
girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with
their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

Watch it. It makes you realize what it is to really care and love and know someone.

It's also a frightening notion.  What if someone was able to switch souls with you and no one would know it or believe it because you still looked like you?
Scary.

read this review...it's long I didn't want to bore those uninterested, but it's quite possibly the most thorough and fitting review of a film.

http://www.reelviews.net/movies/p/prelude.html

I quote the reviewer in closing: "In the final analysis, it can be said that Prelude to a Kiss
explores the issue of love in a way that will encourage many viewers to
examine what the emotion means to them. Too few motion pictures cause
us to think and feel this deeply."

And love, I'm finding out, truly is one of those things that should be about emotion, feeling, tenderness and connection rather than all of the other superficials that can surface.

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haha. and yes. my xanga hiatus is slowly ending. and I am finally finding myself having increments of time to post and read blogs..man i have a lot of catching up to do. been reading everyone's updated xangas these days.  i'm catching on some common themes and commentary on themes will soon follow.
normal school terms bless xanga antics greatly while summer school terms squash. = P

xanga..i have missed you. altho your posting apparatus has changed and i am getting used to it. haha.

--
Get It Together is the song I am

august is over.
i'm officially 25 and a half now.

25...what a year.
it's been a whirlwind and it's true what they say everything you thought you knew about anything
                                                --yourself, your world, you life gets a perspective change and revision.

and it just feels as though everything is now suspended in air, waiting for action, reaction, solution or reason.
hanging by a thin strand of hope that dangles precariously between the future and the past...
                                                --it tells me to jump, but i am afraid of leaving this podium with all the joys and disappointments crunching at my feet.
                                                   just a second ago they were but frustrations, today they are causations leading me to effects.

do i listen to my heart or my mind...i guess i'll know in due time.  but one thing's sure...everything is about to change and nothing is certain or the same.

haha my dearest friend actually goes to law school with Jenna Bush's beau.

read all about him:

Don't Worry, Daddy, He's a Republican

Mystery date: Washingtonians are abuzz about the tall young man who has been spotted with Jenna Bush on
his arm in recent weeks. He was at her side during inaugural events and
they show up regularly together at Georgetown's Smith Point, the Bush
twins' favorite bar. A snapshot popped up on Web sites of the pair
dancing, Jenna with cocktail in hand.

Who is he?

Tall, dark and Republican, Henry Hager has been regularly seen around town in the company of Jenna Bush. (Jeff Snyder) ___ Past Columns___ The Reliable Source can be reached at leibyr@washpost.com, or c/o The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20071. Here is an archive of his columns. if (document.domain != '') { rs = (typeof thisNode != 'undefined')?thisNode.split("/")[0] + "/" + thisNode.split("/")[1]:null; if (typeof thisNode != 'undefined' && rs.split("/")[1] == 'undefined') rs = thisNode.split("/")[0]; DM_addToLoc("thisNode",rs); DM_tag(); var DM_CSID = "J05531"; var DM_UIDS = 3; var DM_CHN = document.location.hostname; var DM_PIX = "pix01.revsci.net"; var DM_BPIX = "pix01.revsci.net"; var DM_UIDD = document.location.hostname; DM_addToLoc("thisNode", rs); DM_tag(); } placeSiteMetrix(); var SA_ID="wpost;wpost"; _____Live Online_____ • Join new Reliable Source Richard Leiby Thursdays at noon ET to share tips, chew the fat and discuss the dish in his daily column. Add The Reliable Source to your personal home page. Free E-mail Newsletters Washington Entertainment Guide See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now Movies See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now Travel See a Sample  |  Sign Up Now Home & Shopping See a Sample  |  Sign Up

He's Henry Hager, a 26-year-old Richmonder with a Virginia political pedigree. Richmond's Style Weekly reported yesterday that his father is John H. Hager,
Virginia's first director of homeland security and a former lieutenant
governor. John Hager recently joined the Bush administration as an
assistant secretary of education.

We hear the young Hager got his start two years ago as an intern in the White House for Karl Rove and
later moved to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. "He's a nice guy, a
smart guy, an ambitious guy," a Bush adviser told us. "Well liked,
popular."

Hager apparently still works in administration
circles, but we couldn't track him down yesterday. The White House had
no comment.

Some young Republicans wonder: Is dating the
president's daughter a good or bad career move? Said our source: "The
jury seems to be out on that one."

Oscar Nominee Has a Reservation on the Hill


• While his fellow Oscar nominees basked in accolades and air kisses, Don Cheadle
was wrapping up three days of living in a tent while visiting refugees
from the genocidal conflict in Sudan. Tapped for Best Actor on Tuesday
for his role in "Hotel Rwanda," Cheadle hits Capitol Hill today to talk
to the media about his experiences in refugee camps on Chad's border
with Sudan's Darfur region.

The actor joined five members of Congress in a delegation headed by Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.). Also on the trip: Paul Rusesabagina,
the hotel manager who sheltered more than 1,200 people during the
Rwandan genocide a decade ago. (Cheadle portrays him in the movie.)

In recent months, Cheadle and the "Hotel Rwanda"
filmmakers have been screening the movie for diplomats and U.N.
officials to promote Western peacekeeping efforts in Africa. We're told
the actor had no idea he was nominated until after he touched down in
Chad's capital, N'Djamena, late Tuesday.

"Once he had phone service again, after being out of contact for three days, he got the call from Los Angeles," said Riva Levinson, a Washington publicist on international issues, who was traveling with Cheadle.

SQUIBS

Joseph Biden imparted advice to Condoleezza Rice, the new secretary of state, after hearings last week. (Melina Mara - The Washington Post)

• Sen. Joe Biden confesses: He whispered sweet nothings into Condoleezza Rice's ear!
The rascally Democrat from Delaware embraced her after contentious
Senate confirmation hearings last week. "When we hugged, I whispered in
her ear, 'I'm telling you, Condi, don't listen to them,' " Biden says
in the new Rolling Stone. "She looked at me. I said, ' Rumsfeld and Cheney. You gotta be tough.' " We'll see if she takes his advice to heart.

• Singer Marian Anderson had a storied
history at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution
Hall. Banned from there in 1939 because of a "white artists only"
policy, she gave a rousing, historic performance at the Lincoln
Memorial instead. But by 1942 Anderson was invited to sing at
Constitution Hall and in 1964 she started her farewell tour there.
Today the late opera star returns -- on a stamp -- and the public is
invited to an 11 a.m. ceremony honoring her life. "We were absolutely
thrilled when the U.S. Postal Service asked us to join them in
recognition of Marian Anderson," DAR president general Presley Merritt Wagoner told
us yesterday. "And I'm sure their choice of venue had everything to do
with the 1939 incident when she was not given the opportunity to sing
in our hall."

• Bush-boosting radio host Michael Graham is up for sale. "Fellow conservatives like Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher are
on the 'cash for commentary' bandwagon. Why not me?" Graham writes in a
posting on eBay that offers his services as a radio yakker to the
highest bidder. "I'm flacking for [President Bush] as hard as I can,"
Graham told us yesterday. "I've been in the right-wing conspiracy since
there was one -- I worked for Pat Buchanan!" But never fear, if
anyone ends up purchasing Graham, he pledges that the proceeds will go
to the Fisher House charity for wounded soldiers and their families.

With Anne Schroeder

haha. i nuked the apartment with foggers yesterday.  No flea has been spotted since.

in other news:

try and get a good night's sleep!

Companies try to help workers sleep more

Posted 8/21/2006 11:36 PM ET

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"When I'm tired, I can't keep my eye on the
ball. I'm a driven person, but it's even starting to affect me
physically. I tripped at work," says Hill, of Dover, N.H. "When I'm
sluggish and tired, I can't focus."

American workers are hungry for sleep. A 2005
survey by the National Sleep Foundation, a Washington D.C., non-profit
that focuses on sleep and public health, found that 26% of adults get a
good night's sleep only a few nights a month or less. Another 24% say
they get a good night's sleep only a few nights a week.

Adults who say they don't get enough sleep are
more likely to experience daytime sleepiness, miss work or make errors
on the job.

That means many workers are groggy at their
desks or on the factory floor. Research shows that drowsy workers are
more likely to have accidents, that many suffer from sleep-related
health problems, and that lack of sleep means they can feel unfulfilled
on the job. Sleep deprivation can also be triggered by depression,
anxiety and other mental health issues.

Employers are waking up to the fact that sleep deprivation can have a bottom-line impact.

How they are trying to help:

• At 10e20, a New York-based global search
marketing and Web solutions company, President Chris Winfield makes
sure employees are supplied with free Starbucks coffee and Red Bull
energy drinks. "It's coffee in the morning and Red Bull in the
afternoon," he says. "We have a lot of legs shaking, but the work gets
done."

He says the combination is effective: "We don't have many missed deadlines."

• Manufacturer Yarde Metals, based in
Southington, Conn., has become well known for its support of employee
naps. And at BNSF Railway, there's a napping policy for transportation
employees. The company's operating rules describe the requirements and
conditions for these naps, including the fact that they are not to
exceed 45 minutes and that one employee on the crew must remain awake.

The policy is part of a fatigue-management
program. BNSF also has an education program that includes the science
behind sleep and fatigue and an overview of sleep disorders and fatigue
countermeasures used to increase alertness. BNSF offers a variety of
scheduling alternatives to increase the amount of time off for train
crews.

• Some fledgling businesses are cropping up to
meet demand for some shut-eye: MetroNaps, which provides midday rest
stations for the overworked and overtired, provides a blanket,
headphones and a quiet pod where sleepy employees can lie back and get
at least a 20-minute nap away from the office. They have two locations
in New York; prices for a nap start at $14.

"What we provide is a clean and private facility
that can be used by professionals," says Arshad Chowdhury, CEO and
co-founder of MetroNaps, which has started franchising. "We have some
(users) who sneak in and those who are sent by their employers. It
gives them energy for the rest of the day."

Employees' sleep deprivation is getting worse in
today's global, 24/7 workplace, as people often work late to meet
overseas deadlines or cope with jet lag because of more international
travel.

The share of people getting eight or more hours
a night of sleep on weekdays dropped from 38% in 2001 to 26% in 2005,
according to a survey by the National Sleep Foundation.

"Employees are companies' most important
assets," e-mails Allison Schwartz, a life coach at Allium Coaching in
Beverly Hills, Calif., who specializes in self-empowerment. "Sleep
deprivation can negatively impact productivity, quality of work and, in
the long run, lead to illness — all costs to employers. More and more
employers are seeing how taking care of their employees leads to
increased productivity and revenues in the long run."

While shift workers are the most prone to sleep
problems, anyone can fall victim. Problems can develop because of sleep
apnea, various disorders that cause sleep to be fragmented,
leg-movement disorders and insomnia. The health effects include weight
gain, feeling hungry, problems with glucose metabolism and a shorter
life span.

"Lack of sleep affects the way you feel, perform
and overall general health. You can have difficulties with memory,
concentration and mood," says Lawrence Epstein, co-author of the
soon-to-be-released The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep and medical director for Sleep HealthCenters in Boston. "People just don't give themselves the opportunity to sleep."

Robert Fayle, a neurologist and medical director
of The Sleep Center at Park Plaza Hospital and Medical Center in
Houston, recommends that employees try some steps to get better sleep,
including getting up at the same time every day, avoiding alcohol and
exercising regularly.

ComPsych, a Chicago-based employee assistance
provider, provides on-site work seminars and individual phone
conferencing on sleep problems.

"Lack of sleep is a huge problem for employers
and employees," says Richard Chaifetz, CEO of ComPsych. "Employers
understand that sleep is a huge part of living life in a healthy
fashion. Employers are putting more programs in place."