Rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences (in your own journal!).
5. Tag five people.

Nearest Book: Cognitive Therapy Techniques: A Practitioner's Guide, by Robert Lehay

Sentence 5:
THERAPIST: Could it also be that the man might respond poditively, smile back, ask you about yourself, maybe even ask you out?

Next 3 sentences:

At this point, the patient recognized that her shyness and avoidance might actually be the reason why men were not pursuing her.
I told her to monitor the number of times men smiled and looked at her and to look back, smile, and ask them about themselves.
The outcome for her over the next 2 months was an increase in the interest directed toward her by the men she met.



Just in case someone here doesn't know even the most basic rules of flirting ;-)

I tag: wfeather, uberreiniger, kehleyr, widdlywhee, shadowtreewitch

Me! ;-)

31, alive and kicking. No fresh grey hairs or anything.
Still busy making home guest-safe .... got help fromadorna, who's way more organized than me.
For all my guests tomorrow....look forwards to our cake creation *g*
And I'm still on holiday!!!!!

...I'd use apples as air missile, does this make me THIS frightening?
Wheeee!





What type of Fae are you?

Happy birthday, whitney_lakin!
Good to have you back here on LJ again!

Wow! This February is kinda weird, 15 degrees and bright sun!
Can't say I mind. Feeling alive again now that, if only for a few days, the world has retained its colors. I've been kinda tired of seeing the world like through a defunct TV set in shades of muck. Yuck!
Walking around the turf just for the feel of warm air on the face this weekend felt incredibly good, and the good mood didn't even falter when I had to get up early today.

On the minus side, two fellow doctors and about a third of the patients are down with a bad virus cold, and as for one of the docs, we're suspecting pneumonia!
Yikes!

So please keep your fingers crossed for me so that I don't end up snorting and sneezing and coughing some time this week, being healthy just feels too good now.

adorna showed me an ad for a PC gme I'd really love: A guitarist's Singstar spin-off called Guitar Rising.
MAybe that way I'd learn enough to become a decent rock guitar player in my old age....
Sheet music just doesn't give me the right kind of thrill....

Hey-ho, rebelfilms!
Happy Birthday, hope you are having a blast!

If you were a thriving business company, with a record volume of sales worldwide, and you had a flourishing location in a land which has subsidized you with 60 millons of Euros within 5 years, and you were the second biggest employer in a town with 2300 people depending on you, what would you do?

For NOKIA, the big Finnish mobile phone company, the answer is clear:

You close the location down, translocating to a place in Eastern Europe where employees are cheaper and you are likely to receive European subsidies for the "new" branch.

This is heinous!
Nokia's employees have been working like hell, and the company has made an after-tax profit of 1,56 billion Euro.
The volume of sale has augmented by almost 30 percent.
Still, this is not enough to fulfill the share-holders' greed.

It's all a matter of competition, as they say.
While the employees, who found the message about the close-down at the blackboard today, were crying on the street, the stock price went crashing through the roof.
Geez, I feel like puking!

Why can't they, at least, be forced to pay back all the subsidies they received, if they close down in spite of their enormuous profit?
In former times, employees would profit from a thriving business. There would have been extra money and other incentives.
Today, you have to fear for your job if your company is doing too well, because share-holders are greedy and you are nothing but an expense factor.
A highly expendable expense factor, because people somewhere abroad are made to work for a fraction of your salary.

They say they can understand how grave the situation is for the employees and theit familes. They are so sorry, but it can't be helped.
What a shallow, hypocritical blah-blah! What they really mean is: "Stop babbling, we don't give a damn, let's get back to more important things than personal fates."

...just one single word. Leave it in my comments section. Then post this original message on your journal and see how many strange and interesting things people say about you.

(stolen from wfeather)

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