I had a nice kind of cheering, Stop-This-Stupid-Crap win today. I was gearing up for a “duty connection”: extending myself to someone whom I really didn’t want to meet, much less extend myself to. Not necessarily a bad person, but almost certainly, from the context in which she presented herself, Not My Tribe. And lo, [...]
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I spent yesterday getting coached into organization by one phenomenal couple of personal productivity experts. It was everything I’d hoped for. And nothing I expected. (Or, shall I say, feared.) What I feared, and you can see this coming, if you’ve thought it through, is that I didn’t clean up enough for the cleaning lady. [...]
I gave myself a rather extraordinary gift this year: no new clients for the first three months, to be reviewed and possibly renewed come April 1st. This is extraordinary (meaning absolutely not the usual thing) for a few reasons: I am obsessed with the idea of achievement I have resident fear of living out my [...]
It is Sunday. Late in the week, late in the day. For lady-reasons I won’t get into, I’ve dramatically reduced my caffeine intake of late so it seems even later. And then there was that falafel for lunch, that pizza and beer for dinner. They didn’t do much to perk me up and put me [...]
Skip vacations at your own peril. On my way up to mine, I cried no less than five times. I think. Frankly, I was so disgusted with myself, I kind of lost count. I also spent a good portion of the trip doing 75 – 80mph, having to pee but refusing to stop because I [...]
I’ve been working on a super-secret web project for an interesting, celebrity client who is using her high profile in the real world for, as I like to say, the powers of Good and not Evil, something I always try to support here at communicatrix-dot-com. Hell, that’s kind of my modus operandi for life in [...]
After being out of town and just plain out of commission, today found me both home and feeling over my cold enough to catch up with my beloved Lily. I made a decision awhile ago to stop multitasking during real phone conversations, since it’s not possible for me to have a quality talk with split [...]
There wasn’t a lot of time to tackle new cleaning projects yesterday: it was mostly about clearing project-projects off of my desk. Which I did, to the tune of three. I even unloaded a couple of fresh packs of address labels I’d never gotten around to using on one of my more beloved clients, the [...]
Now, when I’m happy, I laugh When I’m sad, I cry I get my melons in the melon patch And when I’m itchy I scratch , from the song “When I’m Itchy, I Scratch” I always want something; I just don’t always know what it is. Knowing doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily get it, of course, [...]
