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alyssa milano’s tummy and wrists tattoos

You can see more clearly in the larger version that she has a serpent swallowing its tail on one wrist and a kenja style tattoo on the other. I can’t tell whether the tummy tattoo is some kind of sprite or maybe a greek goddess.

purple buds for those that are anxious for spring.

A psychologist in Calgary thinks he knows why we procrastinate

Steel looked at the literature and found that statistically there’s very little correlation between anxiety and a tendency to procrastinate.

The same with the flattering idea that procrastinators are also perfectionists, people who care so much about doing it right that they can’t bear to get started. Again, Steel found no correlation.

What he did find is that procrastinators are less confident that they can handle a given task. They’re also more impulsive and less conscientious overall.

“Whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you’re right,” Steel says.”Some of these old wives’ tales bear out. People who believe they can are less likely to procrastinate.”

Steel’s paper is unlikely to be the final word on procrastination. But it’s important because it’s the best attempt so far to analyze hundreds of psychological studies that have been conducted over a period of decades.

While I have been known to procrastinate once in a while and it has had consequences it is probably an excessive blanket statement to say that all procrastination is because the person is impulsive and less conscientious. For some reason on certain projects I find that I do my best work if I wait until, not he last minute, but close to the deadline. I pull my notes, my thoughts together and work in a semi-frenzy. I could probably stop, but I’ve found that I do some of my best work that way. I only do this on maybe twenty percent of of the time so before reading the good doctors report I just considered it a quark that works for me. I think some eccentric behavior is just some people’s style while that same behavior is a detriment in others - that’s a study I’d like to see.

Surging and Purging

There’s something happening here, and what it is seems completely clear: the Bush administration is trying to protect itself by purging independent-minded prosecutors.

Last month, Bud Cummins, the U.S. attorney (federal prosecutor) for the Eastern District of Arkansas, received a call on his cellphone while hiking in the woods with his son. He was informed that he had just been replaced by J. Timothy Griffin, a Republican political operative who has spent the last few years working as an opposition researcher for Karl Rove.

Mr. Cummins’s case isn’t unique. Since the middle of last month, the Bush administration has pushed out at least four U.S. attorneys, and possibly as many as seven, without explanation.

Now there’s an interesting psychological phenomenon, a person that keeps breaking the law and purges out those that put the law above politics in order to reassure themselves that their delusional concepts about what the law, in this case the Constitution can’t be twisted unless they have lawyers that tell the administarion what it wants to hear.