one of my aerial yoga instructors likes to start the class by setting an intention for us, often it's abstract but helpful reminders like "forgiveness" or "strength". i went into last week with the intention "do not be a big baby about the heat".
giving myself up to sweat - as well as, worse, the possibility of being perceived whilst sweating - is a lot easier when i realize that everyone else around me is in a similar state of discomfort. at the very least, i don't have to be in an office setting while sweating.
one of my dearest friends, lisa, had the week off and we had a nice walk and chat at the cafe. we were rained on no fewer than 3 times, but the little dog chilling under our table didn't mind so i couldn't either.
i will not eat the flowers that look like they taste like buttered popcorn. i will NOT eat the flowers that look like they taste like buttered popcorn!!
i streamed a lot of the week, as tomorrow glitch.com shuts down project hosting. i compiled my official list of alternative hosts and let folks know i plan to start a new community code jam.
look at this asshole.
i have some transactional emails to edit still, but i'm probably going to make bugs rock live tonight. i'm going for a soft launch because i literally have no idea how things are going to go once folks start buying things! i'm excited and terrified!
pretending to be on vacation at the gym has me thinking i should actually go on vacation. lisa's fiance loves the rare time we travel because he gets to hang out with and take care of this goblin:
things i enjoyed this week
- i cannot for the life of me find a link to it, but in the latest issue of bon apetit there's a cheesy poblano and jalapeno pepper fajita that i made last night and it was a hit EXCEPT it would have been garbagino if i didn't add shredded and cumin-seasoned plant-based fillet to them.
- i enjoy both joel haver's animations as well as his personal system of values that continues to sustain his artistic expression. i just find it super admirable.
after i publish this, i'll be doing the last stream before glitch shuts down project hosting, hopefully hanging upside down like a bat in tonight's aerial class, and deploying the last change to my store before it's officially open for business. i packed a lot into this monday - i hope you are feeling as full as i am right now, but not in an overwhelming way!
xoxo jenn
we are less than a week away from fastly shutting down glitch.com. while i haven't worked there in 10 months, i'm still as much a glitch power user as i've been since i helped launch it in 2017, so i have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, and with some of you live, to find new homes for my most precious projects.
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a brutal heat wave hit the city last week and i spent most of my time indoors, sluggish from the heat but restless from the confinement of my apartment walls. my new walking shoes sat on my table in its box, waiting with me for the relief of below 90 F temperatures.
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this is my 20th weekly retro, and i've not missed a week. it's but one more streak along with my not having missed my meds. every morning i wake up at 8, take my thyroid hormone, feed pumagreg his "wet breakfast" and then go back to sleep. today, i'm starting a new streak of _not_ going back to sleep - to see if it gets me in bed earlier and rotting less in the morning.
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weeks can go in like a lion and out like a lamb, and not just in the month of may. if i could (and i will) describe the first half of last week in a photo, it would be this...
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i always blamed my preference for cold weather on my norwegian maternal side, everything just feels harder when it's hot. by the time i got to the lab to get my bloodwork done, i was drenched in sweat.
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i'm coming to you and this retro with one vial less of blood and having been up since the crack of dawn to have said vial taken. this kicks off the bi-annual celebration of seeing if my thyroid has finally joined me on the quest to be hotter and smarter or not.
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in the early spring months of 2020, i half-jokingly started tweeting about my goal of becoming a "lifestyle blogger". it was impulsive, public, and - i think those who were around to witness my process - pretty funny performance art.
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it's a new week, although the "holiday weekend" still if you're in the states. during my workaholic corporate era, these holidays were more like a working vacation where i still logged on to get stuff done, but didn't have to talk to or answer to anyone (ie. no zoom calls). well, here i am technically working by writing this and planning to do candle work after. it's a good thing i only left corporate, not therapy as well.
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today the news is out that [glitch is basically shutting down](https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/). i knew this was coming in some form because gossip has always been fastly’s greatest export, with speedy and non-vague communication usually coming in at, generously, 10th place.
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