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Things I’m loving lately

By Emily on March 23, 2013

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+ Pete Goldlust’s Carved Crayons series.

+ My Brita water bottle. I own about twenty water bottles. This one is not especially attractive. I sort of wish it wasn’t a squeeze bottle. But I’m drinking way more water than normal (why is that the hardest resolution?) and it’s because water from every tap tastes great. Two thumbs up.

+ The Fault in Our Stars. Recently requested it through Interlibrary Loan. Picked it up as I left my shift at 10 pm…and read it straight through. There were lots of tears, but good ones. Fair warning: it’s about kids with cancer.

+ The new Craigslist gridview. Finally, a more efficient way to waste my time looking at things I don’t need.

+ There are so many Buzzfeed lists, but this My So-Called Life one made me pretty happy. Many, many great animated gifs.

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+ Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi’s TED talk on flow. I’ve read a little about this concept before – where high skill levels and high challenge levels move people into a state of being when external needs (hunger, pain, mindless wandering) fall away. Flow is being in the zone, and Czikszentmihalyi claims it’s one of the ways life stays exciting.

When was the last time you had a flow experience?

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Posted in a few of my favorite things, books, colors | Tagged Craigslist, Crayola, gridview, John Green, Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, My So-Called Life, Pete Goldlust, Ted talk, The Fault in Our Stars

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