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Argh!!! Only a synopsis is online (unless you subscribe). *sigh* The article discusses how depression is contagious. Simply put, depressed people are often self-centered, tend to overreact, and are overly anxious and pessimistic. Being around that will in turn drain you of energy and make you depressed. Supportive social contacts are the most effective way [...]

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New reviews are up — three submitted, two published, one still waiting as of this writing (Amazon.com looks over all reviews before publishing them, it can take as long as 48 hours for a review to be published).
C Good’s Reviews
Books reviewed:

The Tyranny of the Night, Book One of the Instrumentalities of the Night by Glen [...]

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I agree with a lot of what Ms. Bernstein has to say in her article. And yes, I do realize I was guilty of many of these same faults a few months ago. Making more time to actually talk or write to friends is one of the reasons why I’m not on Facebook nearly as [...]

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This article is over 3 months old and comes from A List Apart, an on-line magazine for web professionals. But I went back and re-read it yesterday and was again struck by how well it matched my own experiences with burnout, both in college and in my career.
So I’m posting it here in case others [...]

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My last harvest entry was Thursday, August 20th, day 17. In between then and Monday, August 31st, day 28, we did . . . well, we actually did a lot.
But we didn’t do any harvesting.
During that whole time, we were waiting for the springwheat to finish drying out. We got some intermittent showers in there [...]

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If this story had appeared five months earlier, I’d have suspected it was an April Fool’s joke — but it seems to be on the level. Interesting reading.
Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women.
Summary from site: “Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a [...]

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