The Process of Re-inventing Myself: Sick leave

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sick leave

Dear Reader,

I have been terribly ill and have facial paralysis on my left side, affecting my eye and ability to read and write on the computer. The medical term is Bell's Palsy.

I will have to take a break for a while. I hope to write about the experience more here.

Thanks for your understanding,
TheEngineerWriter

Who Am I?

You're Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you an ardent pacifist, though you present your message with tongue sewn into cheek. You could coin a phrase that replaces the word "paradox" for millions of people.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

You're an Eagle!
Sharp-witted and high-flying, you seem to radiate honor and a sense of pride. You'd make a very good lawyer with your keen eye for details. When up in that rare air, however, make sure to remember to look down to keep your bearings. You never know when it might be important for you to have landed. If you're bald, you love the United States of America, but if you have hair, you feel more ambivalent about it.
Take the Animal Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Favorite Quotes

"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."

~ Sinclair Lewis

“That’s what building a body of work is all about: it’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy.” -- President Barack Obama

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments." -- Zefram Cochrane

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. "
William Osler

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. "
William Osler

"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."
~ Pearl S. Buck

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
- Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sick leave

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