🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! (That’s from Austin Kleon.)
Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off and then putting it back on, confirming a future client relationship, and fixing my broken ring light stand.
JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also read a little bit in Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks but not engaging with literature search today because my brain won’t.
Today is a work-in-bed kind of day. (I have chronic illness and a 4 year old; kindly keep your sleep hygiene tips to yourself.)
As a younger person I thought people in their 40s had their acts together. ~3 wks away from turning 40 I realize people in their 40s have simply accepted that no one ever has their act together.
🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t use goes there in case I want it later.
Want to read: Annotation by Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia 📚
Is my hair still wet or is it like this because I tried the Curly Girl method and used gel? The Kimberly Hirsh story
[Caption: a woman with hair that might be wet or might just be slathered in gel looks confused.]
Want to read: Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie 📚
📚 I know I’m very late to this party but GIDEON THE NINTH is so good.