Noticing new things

Looking over the river today, I noticed the bridge for 95. Every day I look out the window and I probably see it. It isn't especially hidden. I knew conscientiously from the bridge that you can see the building in which I work. So how odd that I have never noticed it or looked for it before. How many things do I look at every day, how many people do I look at every day and not see them. Not even see them, let alone notice the intricate details of their existence. I am that unobservant? Are we that overwhelmed with stimulus that we can't even begin to process it all. Do I use we inappropriately and this is my unique problem?

Cubicle Decorating - An individual expression or way to expose your junk to everyone?

I am about to move into a cubicle from my nice little office, which I am excited about because they put up additional cubicles that block the view from where I sit. I'll be moving next to the window, ah...New occupants are nesting in the new cubicles and I am questioning their decorating taste...or rather they're lack of restraint. I am all for personal expression but displaying your 20 stuffed animals for the world to see, is well, kinda creepy and not the professional image that I would want to broadcast. Then i think about what people wear. Should people be themselves at work with all of their quirks and personality or should some of it be set aside for sake of the job. Tough call...

Why so much pizza?

One thing I have noticed about moving to CT, there are pizza places everywhere. Now, having worked at a pizza place, I can say that pizza is relatively cheap to produce but still I have to wonder just why oh why there are so many around here. I guess they are the Coney Island of Michigan equivalent. And the strange thing, even though we are just 2 hours from NYC, no Coney Islands. Now the pizza here is the source of some controversy. It is in fact "Brooklyn style", which I only know of from the Domino's commercials having only driven through Brooklyn on my way to the airport. I think it's gross. Super thin and super greasy but apparently people prefer it this way. Which makes m wonder if it is just we prefer what we're used to. Can any of us really distinguish from what is good or bad (pizza or otherwise)? Or do we just always choose that with which we are most familiar...and how much pizza can one person eat?

How do people get to be SO overweight?

I, like many people, have started to try and lose weight for the New Year. I was trying (although not that hard) to lose weight prior to this, but the holidays were a train wreck for my diet. Fried french toast cannot be considered healthy in any diet. I am to the point where I am heavily overweight but not obese. I am not even talking about people who are 300 lbs. I am talking about people who are 500 lbs. I am talking about people who are so overweight that they who can't get out of bed. Most people I know who are severely overweight have had some sort of injury that led to inactivity and then that became their lifestyle or they have some sort of lasting physical effects. I can understand that. But to get so large that it is impacting your life, takes some time. And some pretty consistent eating. Is it just so out of control that they can't stop themselves, do they love food that much. I guess it is just like any other risky behavior, it is hard to take control of. I read an article once that most heart attack patients will not change their behavior or take their medicine following a heart attack. They article was on why we won't change our eating habits. It is hard and I think what it is, is that we tie so many things to eating. It is a social event to go out to dinner, to have a family meal, etc. Maybe the key is really to make out family time something different and make eating less of an event. It is such a sensory experience though. Maybe they need a pill like Chantix for eating that blocks the sensory receptors in the brain so our brain doesn't know that it like to eat. Hard to say...

Can you be "too honest"?

While trying to figure out who Ron Paul is (that's another story on my total disinterest in all things political, but I see the signs everywhere...kudos to that campaign). I came across a headline on whether or not Obama's drug response was "too honest". Isn't it the general complaint of people that politicians are...well political when "answering" questions. Has this become so much the norm that we now expect people to make up answers to things?

I think that the bigger problem in society in general is that in the age where information flows fast and free, no one can escape their past. The days of the Western loaner who travels to a new town for a new start, are long gone. Now, whatever you have done follows you wherever you go. Everyone has indiscretions or things that they would have done different. It is what shapes you and makes you the person you are today. That is what I am concerned about when looking at who I want to run the country, what kind of person you are now. If you are the kind of person who can honestly answer a question, that makes you a.o.k. in my book.