At the beginning of the year I resolved to be less jiggly. Every year our entire company takes an annual trip over a weekend in May. We only choose warm, sunny places. This year it’s San Diego. We spend much of the weekend in meetings, but eventually we all meet at the pool. Since it’s not customary to swim in a burka, this year I made a commitment—I will not do that thing where I inch my shorts off while hunched in I-have-to-pee position and then jump in the pool like no one noticed. I resolve to be fit.
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**The next 25 days I’ll be posting 500 words a day as part of a creative writing challenge. You can join the fb group here. **
Today's post is on the fb group page.
Conflict goals /
This year, nestled among things like “Be less jiggly,” and rebuilding my savings, I decided that I wanted to become comfortable with having difficult conversations. At the time, I set this intention from a place of strength and empowerment and confidence. #Girlboss!
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This morning I read this two-year old article on Medium about shitty internet comments. It was written by the same guy who wrote the article about the cruelty of getting a burrito made by a dude who doesn’t understand the importance of layering the ingredients horizontally, not vertically, in order to get a decent cross-section when you take a bite. So duh, he has my heart.
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Today I tried to cheat and pull a half-finished story from last summer about the time I thought I was going to get murdered by my Getty-image Airbnb host in Antwerp. I have been re-working and tweaking the story for the past two hours to make it sound like I just came up with it, but also because it’s actually a funny story that feels like it should be told and I really wanted to finish it.
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