I finally finished the post about Lean In.
Read it here.
For some reason, my website isn't working very well right now. I will have to look into why it's breaking the links. Let me know if you can't access it and I'll copy and paste the post here.
3.10.2014
3.04.2014
Blog Vows
I haven't forgotten that I vowed to write a post about Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. This last week has been nothing short of a nightmare involving to do lists and check boxes. Alas, I did begin a draft of the post. I'm going to publish it on my design blog—not this one. I feel it's a poignant enough topic for more than 3 people to read.. if they so choose—and I don't want to do that by giving more people access to this blog. I like to keep this readership fairly small.
I haven't lied though. And I don't intend to be mean. I simply want to reflect on all the bad press this book has gotten and what I think (my opinion and nothing more) her message is and what I think women should take from the book.
In other news, work has gotten busy and weddings remain busy. At the risk of any brides reading this and learning things they shouldn't know, I'll forego the details—but essentially there has been a lot of planning and a lot of crafting. I'm counting down the days until both showers and bachelorette parties are over so that the things I am MOST responsible for will have ended. I have no doubt that I will assist both brides with wedding prep but the showers/bachelorettes are putting way more pressure on me at this point.
I haven't forgotten about my Jekyll & Hyde project either. Partially, I am waiting to move forward until wedding things calm down a bit, but I have managed to squeeze in some research about my favorite illustrators when I have had a free moment. Ironically, I find that I'm wasting more and more time on reading blogs lately. I subscribed to a bunch of illustration blogs in addition to my design blogs from before and I set up Feedly as a more organized source of collecting and displaying them all. So when my mind wanders these days, it tends to land on my Feedly homepage. Perhaps I can encourage it to land on more specific research. I just realized that I am attempting to organize and plan time "wasted." I realize how crazy that sounds. No life can/should be that scheduled. And yet, I find it somehow comforting.
Thanks to all the snow, ice, and obligations, I have had a hard time sticking to running lately. I haven't totally fallen off the bandwagon but it certainly has been less than 3-days a week. So yesterday I chose to do a Crossfit workout (as per Jason's designation) in lieu of being able to go outside for a run or go to aikido class (it was canceled due to the snow). I am embarrassingly sore today. Lesson learned = my muscles are weak. Benefits of this workout = it kicked my ass and took a grand total of SEVEN minutes. I can get behind that... if my muscles will allow me to.
I haven't lied though. And I don't intend to be mean. I simply want to reflect on all the bad press this book has gotten and what I think (my opinion and nothing more) her message is and what I think women should take from the book.
In other news, work has gotten busy and weddings remain busy. At the risk of any brides reading this and learning things they shouldn't know, I'll forego the details—but essentially there has been a lot of planning and a lot of crafting. I'm counting down the days until both showers and bachelorette parties are over so that the things I am MOST responsible for will have ended. I have no doubt that I will assist both brides with wedding prep but the showers/bachelorettes are putting way more pressure on me at this point.
I haven't forgotten about my Jekyll & Hyde project either. Partially, I am waiting to move forward until wedding things calm down a bit, but I have managed to squeeze in some research about my favorite illustrators when I have had a free moment. Ironically, I find that I'm wasting more and more time on reading blogs lately. I subscribed to a bunch of illustration blogs in addition to my design blogs from before and I set up Feedly as a more organized source of collecting and displaying them all. So when my mind wanders these days, it tends to land on my Feedly homepage. Perhaps I can encourage it to land on more specific research. I just realized that I am attempting to organize and plan time "wasted." I realize how crazy that sounds. No life can/should be that scheduled. And yet, I find it somehow comforting.
Thanks to all the snow, ice, and obligations, I have had a hard time sticking to running lately. I haven't totally fallen off the bandwagon but it certainly has been less than 3-days a week. So yesterday I chose to do a Crossfit workout (as per Jason's designation) in lieu of being able to go outside for a run or go to aikido class (it was canceled due to the snow). I am embarrassingly sore today. Lesson learned = my muscles are weak. Benefits of this workout = it kicked my ass and took a grand total of SEVEN minutes. I can get behind that... if my muscles will allow me to.
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