Monthly Archives: January 2009

The 30-day tramp experiment

January 21, 2009 – 11:46 pm

If you’re in business, then you’re in the business of making ideas.
How do you come up with good ideas on deadline, all day, every day?
It’s not just about keeping your Creative Fun Fountain spraying.
It’s also about managing stress and fear so you CAN feel creative. Since it’s physiologically impossible to be creative and afraid [...]

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Are you subject-line material?

January 12, 2009 – 6:58 pm

If you want to traumatize someone for years, here’s one way to do it.
Fire them from an $8-an-hour customer service job. As you’re giving them their papers, murmur these five little words with heartbreaking sadness:
“You’re just not Starbucks material.”
This didn’t happen to me, but hearing about it made my skin crawl. Who says stuff [...]

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My first makeover

January 6, 2009 – 9:00 pm

Writing this post feels a bit scary. Does my eyeshadow look okay?
Mostly because it’s about something that hasn’t happened yet. And because it’s about me, and because I’m still in progress.
I’ve drawn my ideal house with a mechanical pencil, but all of my shoes and breakfast things are in my current house. And my roommates [...]

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