February 26, 2007

• Mr. Oscar

  I really enjoyed watching the Oscars last night. Not only was it a very classy event, but my DVR just made the evening go so much more quickly as I fast-forwarded through commercials and speeches I didn’t really care to hear. It was fabulous.

  A few highlights for me:

  -Ellen Degeneres handing a screenplay to Martin Scorcese and making Steven Speilberg take a picture of her and Clint Eastwood with her digital camera. Hilarious.

  -Will Ferrell and Jack Black’s song about the comedian being the saddest man at the Oscars.

  -Jerry Seinfeld presenting the best documentary category. That man will perhaps forever be my favorite funny-dude.

  -Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear were also pretty funny, as well as the girl duo from The Devil Wears Prada (actually, the funny part was the look on Meryl Streep’s face-in character from the movie-during their presentation).

  -Those cool tumbling people that kept making shapes behind the screen that are seemingly impossible no matter how flexible you are.

  Congrats to all the winners (I’m sure a lot of them read my blog) and I guess now I’ll watch The Departed.

  On an unrelated note, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to keep myself organized. It’s not a problem with calendars and such, it’s more a problem of keeping track of everything I have to do for the 97 jobs I’m doing. My brain is on overload, and I have this compulsive thing that makes me go on a rampage to make at least SOME order out of the chaos that surrounds me. So this weekend I did about 12 loads of laundry (not exaggerating). I also cleared a bunch of decorative things off my desk at home and boxed them up, again to make a little more order.
  I also sat down for about 10 minutes at home last night and just made an extensive list of things to do. There’s about 30 or more things on there, some large tasks, some small-but all equally important. This was really helpful. Now I can use this list to aid me in accomplishing a bunch of stuff I need to do, and help me feel a sense of gratification when crossing things off the list when completed. Yay for lists.

  I got a great “The Way I See It” blurb on my Starbucks cup this morning, written by former mayor of NYC, Rudy Giuliani:

  “Leadership requires relentless preparation. You cannot predict every possible challenge. But if you prepare for those challenges that you can predict, you will be better equipped to handle all problems, even the unexpected ones.”

   
  I cannot begin to tell you how true that is. 

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