When I was at UPS tonight I was thinking about how responsibility works. One thing that I’ve (re)learned about responsibility recently is that the person responsible for one thing may not be solely or entirely at fault for the thing in question. Furthermore, the person responsible may or may not bear any consequences for the responsibility.
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I know a handful of people who often use the phrase, “…you should have done…” I’ve never really been a big fan of this phrase, but I’ve never articulated why I dislike it so much. For most people I talk to it seems to be a semantics issue or something similarly unimportant. I think it is more important than that, and I have a preferred substitute phrase that I think works better.
“…next time you can…”
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I heard it over and over again before I got married. In movies and on TV; from parents, friends, and friend’s parents; even strangers would tell me that once you got married you’d notice quirky little things about your spouse. Well, I noticed one thing within a few weeks of marrying Joy — toilet paper rolls.
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Joy, Jessica, and I went to see Jennifer (the hamster lady) this evening and we picked out four new dwarf hamsters. We haven’t named them yet or anything, and we’ve still got them in a temporary living situation for now, but I’ll update this post with more information when it comes.
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Love, caring, and self-control seem to be so interrelated that they are often confused for each other or rendered indistinguishable from one another.
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Joy has two more classes to take before she can graduate from UF this summer. So, she is taking Organic Chemistry II and Speech during Summer B, which starts Monday. She just left for Gainesville a few minutes ago, and I’ll be driving up directly from work at UPS.
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Last night I got my e-mail from Google saying that my site was approved for their AdSense program. So, this morning I set about getting the rest of the stuff set up for it and making a place for them on my main page.
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Today I am the househusband. That’s not really a word, people! So don’t get any ideas. Actually, let’s just call it house-spouse for the politically sensitive.
How did I get myself in this situation?
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The new site now has a name, a domain name, a server, and three administrators who are working diligently (OK, two of them are… I just say unproductive things and try to distract them from their goals) on bringing this site into fruition.
The new site’s name is Think Out Loud. It’s domain is http://www.thinkoutloud.org. Nate, Conor, and I are the site administrators.
This means that I have a new e-mail address. It’s just my first name at the site .org.
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Some of you may recall that I worked at Panera Bread Company before I started working with UPS. Back then I was making $6.50/hour working fewer than 20 hours a week (I really want a job with a consistant schedule that gives me roughly 15-25 hours per week.) Now that I am working at UPS I am making $9.00/hour because I recently received my first raise (+$0.50)
So, I was wondering… which is better? Obviously, UPS seems much better because I am making more money in total; my schedule is much more consistant; and the pay rate is higher. However, I have to drive a lot farther to the UPS HUB, and that takes up a lot of my time each week. So, I did a few calculations.
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