~ queen of static electricity ~

I am unsure as to what has happened to me, but I have recently become a constant bearer of static electricity. It all started about a month ago, when I washed a flannel blanket without a dryer sheet. When I brought it home, I threw it onto my comfy red reclining armchair. The armchair then became completely full of static electricity. Now, my apartment is also a home for static electricity, and I constantly have hair that stands on ends while I shock myself silly. The static travels with me when I leave my apartment. This is evidenced by the student identification photo I had taken earlier this week, in which half of my hair is plastered to my face and the other half is standing up in something of a mohawk. And I tell you, it is ridiculous. Also, I would like to solicit advice on how to combat this issue. How do I neutralize all of the static electricity in my life? I have since rewashed and redried the original flannel blanket with a dryer sheet, so it is fine, the only thing I own that is not saturated with static. But I sense that the problem has become larger than a mere dryer sheet can handle.

In other news, some time ago I worked on a personal strategic plan to help me to prioritize and motivate me to accomplish certain goals. I did this after doing some reading about goals and their correlation to happiness (the author's last name escapes me at the moment, Csiskinskyski, or something like that). Anyway, it was really awesome and I should remember to share the correct spelling of his name and give him credit for some awesome writing. He argued that people have a better chance of being happy in the long term when they have a set of goals and projects and are continually developing and working on them. I thought it was a neat idea, so I went ahead and mapped out a strategic plan for myself. I feel that the most important thing that it did for me was to simply expand my perspective. Which is to say that most of the time, I am focused on the moment-to-moment experience (and this is definately good in many respects) but when it comes to thinking about the broader "having-meaning-and-purpose-in-one's-life" thing, the moment-to-moment perception of things made me inclined to feel unaccomplished, small, and lame. Which is really not the case when you put it in a broader perspective. Also, having in mind this broader perspective has made a noticable difference in my own personal motivation. And I have found that motivation is key to accomplishing stuff.

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