Hello! How was your week? I finally got a professor to oversee my independent study, so I'll be writing the beginning of a memoir this summer (eek) and if all my visa issues get sorted, I'll officially be graduating in August. Which raises a lot of complicated foreign person trying to work here issues, but hopefully everything is going to work out. Baby steps.
In the meantime, links!
Looking for jobs invites a lot of self doubt and feelings of inadequacy (unless it doesn't and I'm doing this wrong?!) I found this really comforting/inspiring: No one is going to pick you, pick yourself
Here's the GREATEST article on how humans can live eleven lives (not about reincarnation and instead about the number of opportunities we have to be great at something)
I wrote an ode to girlfriends last year, which is one of my favorite posts because lady friends are spectacular; on the plane last weekend I read about the bond between men, and it's lovely.
If I was a poet, I'd want to be Warsan Shire. This is beautiful: for women who are "difficult" to love.
"You can't make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you that"
As someone who's often quiet because of going to in-depth analysis of everything said by everyone around me and their motivations for doing so, I loved this: Not Everything is About You (surprise!)
You're reading Alexandra Frazen, right? How to attract people you can count on — in life, love & business and 30 mantras for the over-worked and over-committed
I hate that so much of food advertising is focused on calorie counting and "diet" products without any attention given to eating real, non-processed or genetically modified foods: why diet products are no good
I wrote an ode to girlfriends last year, which is one of my favorite posts because lady friends are spectacular; on the plane last weekend I read about the bond between men, and it's lovely.
If I was a poet, I'd want to be Warsan Shire. This is beautiful: for women who are "difficult" to love.
"You can't make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you that"
As someone who's often quiet because of going to in-depth analysis of everything said by everyone around me and their motivations for doing so, I loved this: Not Everything is About You (surprise!)
You're reading Alexandra Frazen, right? How to attract people you can count on — in life, love & business and 30 mantras for the over-worked and over-committed
I hate that so much of food advertising is focused on calorie counting and "diet" products without any attention given to eating real, non-processed or genetically modified foods: why diet products are no good
On a happy note: Ten Things That Don't Upset Anybody
Rookie mag is aimed at teenagers but I think the messages here about doubt and making decisions are applicable to everyone: You do not need permission to live the life you want to live
And finally: How to facebook like an 81 year old dad, in case you were wondering (hilarious).
P.S I found a post that I wrote just under a year ago, plan for life, which I prefer so much more to my current plan. I'm going to try and figure out how to get back to that.
Rookie mag is aimed at teenagers but I think the messages here about doubt and making decisions are applicable to everyone: You do not need permission to live the life you want to live
And finally: How to facebook like an 81 year old dad, in case you were wondering (hilarious).
P.S I found a post that I wrote just under a year ago, plan for life, which I prefer so much more to my current plan. I'm going to try and figure out how to get back to that.
I used to (I still) get very awkward when I see a group of people laughing near me. For some odd reason I think they may be laughing at me, and I begin the process of going over every reason they may have at randomly laughing at me. One of many examples.
ReplyDeleteLoved the "Not Everything is About You (surprise!)" article.