Well, not QUITE, but a VP of ours just left, a salesperson got fired, and my supervisor is leaving in 2 weeks. That leaves one salesperson and her assistant left to handle the sales - I hope my supervisor's sales responsibilities don't get dumped on me because I hate the pressure of having to produce results. On top of this, I know but they don't know that I am looking for new work and will put in my two week's notice as soon as I find it. When my supervisor told me yesterday that he was leaving, I was like, "oh my god, you beat me to it!!"
Anyway, I cranked up my job search this past week because, after going to the Michael channeling session, they said that my essence (or soul) would like to explore working on a campus or a dynamic web-based company, both of which sounded good to me. I looked at university jobs when I first started job searching after graduation, but I only got one interview that went nowhere. I did find an interesting position for a program assistant at USC, and it's the only job I applied to so far. I have a very good feeling about this one, but if I don't get it I'll start searching again.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
the china study
This is my short review of The China Study by Dr. Colin Campbell, as posted on Amazon.com.
I decided to become vegetarian again (did it for a while in college) after reading Diet for a New America by John Robbins, and this book further convinced me that a whole food, plant-based diet is the right thing to do. The writing style is very down-to-earth, conservative, and never sensational - almost a bit dull at times. You get the sense he is just conveying the evidence he has discovered for maintaining a healthy, disease-free life, from one human being to another. This book is chock full of scientific evidence showing that animal protein (meat, fish, milk, and eggs) are a fundamental cause/promoter of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and a host of other diseases. I myself did not need this much convincing to go vegetarian, but this is a good book to lend to those who do.
As of today I have been a vegetarian (not vegan because I still eat ice cream once in a while) for a little over 2 weeks, and I lost 2.5 lbs (now weighing 140 lbs) without doing much else - I work in front of a computer all day and don't exercise. I have gooood BM too (bowel movement). I don't miss meat, but I don't obsess over the diet either - if I cook, I don't buy meat products; if someone else cooks, I don't mind eating the veggies cooked in with the meat. Like Dr. Campbell says, give it a try for 30 days. If you can't stand it, you can always go back.
For those of you interested in the effects of meat-eating on animal, environmental, and economic health (not just human), I also highly recommend The Food Revolution by John Robbins, which is the update to Diet for a New America