envy

Seems like this woman looking for some advice on her envy problem got a lot more than she was looking for as a response: it was less of an answer and more of a manifesto about the deluded and unhappy state in which we all live, ignoring the call to a higher purpose. I've always found the feeling of envy fascinating, both when I have experienced it and just thinking about it. The author claims that it serves as a motivating factor, which I guess it can, but it is a rather negative motivator - telling you to do whatever you can to be rid of that horrible feeling.

Hardly at all related to this, I have recently been asked to program a website. I am working in Ruby on Rails to build the site, and hope to overlay a content management system so users can upload new content and edit content as needed without having to understand code (besides common HTML tags). So far, I'm spending a lot of time figuring out how Rails works, as well as learning how to code CSS by trial and error. I never really envied web designers and programmers, but maybe I should have. It's actually not that bad - especially if you are capable of focusing on really minute details. S. has been helping me a lot, but I already solved a few bugs with how the page was displaying on my own, so that made me feel pretty good. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the deadline got extended just a bit, and I am still waiting for content, so I feel less rushed overall.

Hope everyone is well. It's been rather quiet in lj-land. I guess everyone's over at Facebook :P