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Mental Paradigm
May. 21st, 2004 09:07 amI've just managed to work the phrase 'mental paradigm' into a serious conversation.
May. 21st, 2004
Have you ever had one of those moments where and event or object seems to 'resonate'.
One of those feelings that if the world was more magical (in a high fantasy sense) it would have just glowed?
In the last few years, there's been a few occasions where 'I just knew' that something would happen.
The classic example was the tall ships race, back at college. I applied to go, did the team building stuff. I was mostly convinced that I would be going sailing the baltic.
And then heard my application wasn't successful, but I'd be put on the waiting list.
2 months later however, one of the participants dropped out, and I was next in line.
This was good news, but not a suprise. At some level, I think I knew.
I had a similar sort of experience when applying for the job at AAH Pharmceuticals. I 'had a strong feeling' that I'd get it, and whilst I wasn't wanting to count my chickens, I was already starting to consider whether I'd take it or not (in the end, I decided not to).
I've met a few people that I've known that we're going to be friends.
I'm sure most people have experienced feeling of deja vu. I've certainly had a few of those.
Now there's one theory that things like this, deja vu etc. are remembered only because they're confirmed - we may have many moments we're definite that the world is going to work out in our favour, only to be denied, but because the 'spooky co-incidence' doesn't occur, we don't recall it. After all, that was just a run of bad luck.
Or perhaps we're just creating self fulfilling prophecy - by being determined that something will be, we make it _much_ more likely through our own actions.
Personally though, I'd rather believe in the former. That destiny is a force of it's own, and sometimes you can pick up on that.
Perhaps some empirical testing might confirm that - if I record each time I think that way, and try and correlate, then I'll probably find that there's no 'substantive' link. Which is why I'm not going to do it, because I rather like the delusion that there's some things that were just meant to be.
One of those feelings that if the world was more magical (in a high fantasy sense) it would have just glowed?
In the last few years, there's been a few occasions where 'I just knew' that something would happen.
The classic example was the tall ships race, back at college. I applied to go, did the team building stuff. I was mostly convinced that I would be going sailing the baltic.
And then heard my application wasn't successful, but I'd be put on the waiting list.
2 months later however, one of the participants dropped out, and I was next in line.
This was good news, but not a suprise. At some level, I think I knew.
I had a similar sort of experience when applying for the job at AAH Pharmceuticals. I 'had a strong feeling' that I'd get it, and whilst I wasn't wanting to count my chickens, I was already starting to consider whether I'd take it or not (in the end, I decided not to).
I've met a few people that I've known that we're going to be friends.
I'm sure most people have experienced feeling of deja vu. I've certainly had a few of those.
Now there's one theory that things like this, deja vu etc. are remembered only because they're confirmed - we may have many moments we're definite that the world is going to work out in our favour, only to be denied, but because the 'spooky co-incidence' doesn't occur, we don't recall it. After all, that was just a run of bad luck.
Or perhaps we're just creating self fulfilling prophecy - by being determined that something will be, we make it _much_ more likely through our own actions.
Personally though, I'd rather believe in the former. That destiny is a force of it's own, and sometimes you can pick up on that.
Perhaps some empirical testing might confirm that - if I record each time I think that way, and try and correlate, then I'll probably find that there's no 'substantive' link. Which is why I'm not going to do it, because I rather like the delusion that there's some things that were just meant to be.
Duty Dispatcher
May. 21st, 2004 03:12 pmWhee. Next week, I get to be ITC Server Operations Duty dispatcher.
That means I'm officially helpdesk call fob off monkey.
Stupid system really, basically if there's a 'server' problem it gets sent to me, to forward to the appropriate person (and fix if I can).
Thankfully it's only for a week. I know full well, that this'll take several hours per day, and they'll still expect me to keep up with stuff I've got to do.
Buggrit.
That means I'm officially helpdesk call fob off monkey.
Stupid system really, basically if there's a 'server' problem it gets sent to me, to forward to the appropriate person (and fix if I can).
Thankfully it's only for a week. I know full well, that this'll take several hours per day, and they'll still expect me to keep up with stuff I've got to do.
Buggrit.