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Tagging folks who I hope will join the exodus
Many people who post sporadically may not yet know about the new TOS and the mass migration to dreamwidth. In hopes that some folks have settings that will email them when they are tagged: I hope you'll come to Dreamwidth, miyyu, a_kosmos, le_coeur_chante, and serrin. I don't think I'll have this LJ account for much longer. -
Sticky: moving to DreamWidth
The new LJ Terms of Service, though it claims to be legally non-binding, forbids breaking Russian law ( Read more... ) -
Someone else's best-laid plans
Really interesting lunch conversation today with a Zillianaire who's been there for a few years. I knew (though it's not widely known) that he actually came out of an early retirement to take this job, and for weeks we'd been planning to have lunch so that he could talk to me about early retirement and the pitfalls he encountered there. In the ( Read more... ) -
Biographies, boys, boats, burnout
Just finished reading The Boys in the Boat, a gift from my biography-loving father-in-law about a 1936 rowing team. It's not my usual kind of thing, but turned out to be a nice read this long weekend as I lay around like a zombie trying to recover from work. I suppose my FiL thought the athleticism would interest me, as well as the childhood ( Read more... ) -
In which Nala is still a badass
This week hit its apex yesterday with a thousand-dollar vet visit followed by a ten-plus-hour workday to a hard deadline. Everyone's self-assessment was due, including for me and for my three reports who are up for promotion ( Read more... ) -
In which managing a large team is kind of awful, and a birthday approaches
Most of my thoughts lately have been about work. I took a class a week ago that basically hit me like a truck, about managing larger teams and how managing a 15-person team or bigger is fundamentally different from managing a 5-person one. It was useful, and actionable, and deadly depressing. I've been getting more unhappy feedback from people who ( Read more... ) -
Greasing the groove
Despite everything else in life, I'm thrilled by how well it's working to focus on maintenance in my own workouts (while still trying to learn new things in circus). I have my list of 10 skills to maintain, and have done nine of them so far this year, and every single one of them feels good every time I do the thing, and in each case I've granted ( Read more... ) -
Politics: from "poly", meaning "many", and "ticks", being small bloodsucking creatures.
This is a good article on how to stay outraged / politically active without losing one's mind (or being shamed into stopping entirely).
( Here's some information I found about MA members of congress, and executive orders. ) -
Holding ground
I did really well in Monday's handstand class and it felt nice. I held a handstand for over a minute (according to the teacher's timer), and also kicked up and did five "tick-tocks", which are side to side weight shifts, without my spotter touching me. That all felt really good. Wednesday didn't go as well, handstandwise, but on Wednesday I nailed ( Read more... ) -
March march march
Yesterday I marched in the Boston Women's March! Estimates are now that 125,000 people were there. It was my first such event ever, which is why I'm posting about it -- so I can tag it with my "firsts" tag -- and I did in fact find it worthwhile and uplifting. I went out because I knew attendance would be counted (at least estimated) worldwide, and ( Read more... )