On a Monday nights lately, I'm buzzed from skiing. I actually committed to something - an 8-week long, twice a week, race training program. This is massive for me, as having taken a trip a month for very nearly two years, it seemed like I had lost the ability to commit to anything. And that was ...
Abstract: In a world where computing power doubles roughly every two years, the goal is no longer efficiency, but effectiveness. The education system prepares students for efficiency, but to be successful when we go out into the world (or before!) we need rather to learn to be effective. In this workshop, we'll discuss more useful things ...
On the way to Toronto my friend is telling me I need to give up bagels, and I say, there's enough change in my life right now without introducing more. But that I think it will be better next month. She says, "you always think that; you said that in August, too". She's right. This month's ...
I've determined that 6am workout classes are the way to prioritize and fit in exercise. As a result, I've discovered that there's something quite depressing about oversleeping and thinking "because I did not get up at 5:30 I am not going to fit in everything I want to do today". But on Monday I made it, ...
My goal for July was to deal with bureaucracy and explore more. My success was so-so. I got my work-permit sorted, and found out how to get my tax form from IBM (still do to - ask for it). And my boyfriend and I took a trip to Paris... Ontario. But, a lot of my organizational energy went ...
Last week, in California, I met the amazing Meggin who leaves such astute and beautiful comments here. It was great - or terrible timing - depending on how you look at it. Terrible timing, because, one of the first things I said to her was: In a while I'll spin this into a really positive sounding ...
A few weeks ago, I got frustrated with a pattern I'd observed. I would, in non "crazy" week work out 5-6 times. Then the following week something would happen - I'd have to take a trip, be out every night, get sick... something. And work out maybe once. This oscillation and unpredictability - sometimes working out ...
For the cool-down at spin class, the instructor put on some Andrew Lloyd Weber, I think something from Phantom of the Opera. Yes, it was pretty random. But, for me, something of a blast from the past. It was a song I used to sing, back when I had singing lessons. And then as I ...
When stressed, I'm prone to bemoaning the lack of hours in the day. I think if I could just get an extra, say, two hours a day, that would be one more activity I could get in. When happy (and for me, happy usually means productive) I reason, "We all get the same 24 hours in ...
Women, especially, seem to talk about work-life-balance - and it's synonym, work-life-integration (a la IBM) a lot. But what does it mean? The cop out, d'uh, answer is, different things to everyone. I've come to think that what it means is that the pieces that make up your life (work, family, friends, exercise, hobbies, etc etc) have ...
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