musing on crushes, etc

In other news...

The other day I looked on the LJ secret crush thingummy to see how many people had crushes on me. Two secret crushes and two ex-crushes. My first thought was "what did I do to put them off?" - then I was somewhat amused by the irrationality of that.

I can't quite explain what I mean but it's something like: well either they made me an offer and I said no thanks or for whatever reason they never asked me. And if you're not going to get off with someone then i.m.e. it's much simpler not to have a crush on them, so why would I wish that situation on anyone and surely it's better that the crush wore off.

... although I must concede that crushes can be quite enjoyable, so maybe whoever it was got all the enjoyment they were looking for out of having the crush at the time and would have been quite happy for it to continue :-)

I have no intention of paying money to find out who the four people are, and probably wouldn't look even if it were free, as that side of it was a dodgy operation which I don't want to give any agreement to. People can tell me if they want to tell me.


Book of the moment is David Allen, "Getting things done: how to achieve stress-free productivity". It's the best book I've ever read on time management, and I've read a few. I've been singing its praises to everyone around me.

Musicwise I have had a bit of a Pet Shop Boys phase in the last few days. In particular, I have been deriving amusement from "Yesterday, when I was mad", which rather fitted my mood of frustration as documented in previous post.

snagglepat, I was just reading the article here on delegation and I thought of you... it talks about training your boss to delegate to you effectively :-)
(my brother knows the writer, that's kind of "why" I was reading it)

Entertaining quote from David Allen's book:
"There are only two problems in life: (1) you know what you want, and you don't know how to get it; and/or (2) you don't know what you want." - Steven Snyder