LIFE
Progress on my apartment has stalled, although I do finally have internet again, which is nice. I made it to the gym 4x during the week, and then took off for a weekend at the spa with my mom! No weights or yoga this week, due to class times and the less than stellar class options at the spa.
Caught up with a friend, and went on what turned out to be my last date with that particular bloke. His behaviour made me feel a bit crap, but whatever – delete his number, block him, move on. Dating feels like such a waste of time though, I could better spend that time… in the gym? Working? Writing? I think I need to take more of this approach.
Meanwhile my writing is going well, I made a start on Intimidating Project and it looks like some pieces of my writing will be elsewhere on the internet soon.
Finally walked to work – the tube is surprisingly painless and given the weather I haven’t been walking as much as I thought I would. It’s not the warmest here so I teamed thermals with sweatpants (disguised!) and… ended up having to cover an interview. Oops.
WORK
Writing lots of code this week, although things didn’t go to plan (do they ever?) and my “simple” refactoring is exponentially more work than we thought it would be. But hey, I’m learning a lot and the end of this overall task is in sight, and we’re starting to talk about what’s next. Which includes this design exercise I’ve organised in NYC, which I’m excited about.
PLACES
Got dinner at Bill’s (OK, Bill’s in Sydney is so much better) and Shoryu Ramen which was great, and inexpensive – raspberry chocolate mochi. Lovely! Weekend at Champney’s spa, but that is a separate story.
MEDIA
Still working on The Charisma Myth, but I did finish Bond Girl, and read Chocolate Cake For Breakfast (set in NZ, quite light but I enjoyed it). Still watching Brothers and Sisters season 4. Still rocking out to Lady Gaga’s new album (ARTPOP) on Grooveshark, but also found the new Katy Perry album (PRISM), I adore Roar – great video!
Links Amazon.
PUBLISHED
- Melbourne, August/September 2013
- 5 Tips When Applying to Opportunities For Women in STEM
- Book: The Power of Habit
ON THE INTERNET
- Interesting from @Caterina – “Parenting, Communities and Crime” – http://buff.ly/1cTZgiC
- I can’t subscribe to @shanley‘s Model View Culture because I’m not in the US, but if you are, you should – amazing – http://modelviewculture.com/
- I like this on “what about the dudes” – Men – if you’re not a feminist, it’s fine, just move on – http://buff.ly/1fkkk9I
- Like this on recognition ” like healthy food and exercise, life is a whole lot better with it” – http://buff.ly/1aWIEXI /via @dontgetcaught
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When Chinese – English translation goes adorably wrong… pic.twitter.com/MT2tfaDGxH /via @sarahknapton
- This is fascinating, long but worth a read – Surviving Anxiety – http://buff.ly/1fjde5f /via @jenny_blake
- I like this on being single – The Hard-Won Lessons of the Solitary Years – http://buff.ly/19kU4JI /via @jenny_blake
- Yes, yes, yes – empathy is a core engineering value – http://buff.ly/1dCAwMI /via @petewarden
- Great talk, glad it made famous speech Friday! “We should all be feminists” @ChimamandaSays http://buff.ly/KSeDCI /by @dontgetcaught
- This is good – On Tone Policing: Why It’s Bullshit And Why You Need To Stop – http://buff.ly/1iZTEeX /via @adriarichards
- Weather dashboard – beautiful mobile design – http://buff.ly/19hHB9z
- Me: “Oh look it’s a koala in a swimming pool!” K “is that a bunny? …oh koala” pic – pic.twitter.com/0Pwf2mmhGw /via @abcnews
- Fascinating insights in Fords trend reports on mobile use (click through for whole report, too) – http://buff.ly/1hDF38N /via @jenny_blake
- Interesting on engineer to engineer recruiting – http://blog.sourcing.io/engineer-to-engineer-recruiting … /via @rands
- I really liked this, on the tradeoffs you might make to sell a company – http://buff.ly/1cZVYhf /via @sachac
- 52 travel destinations – cave in Vietnam, anyone? Also keen on Taiwan. Gorgeous pictures – http://buff.ly/KZvR0p /via @aryareaisparsi
- when my needs come into conflict with what is actually happening I will teach myself not to need those things anymore http://buff.ly/1m03qOi
- I like this on interfaces of the future, I would buy that toothbrush – http://buff.ly/1m4V4Vs
- I have so many of these – 16 Signs You’re A Little (Or A Lot) Type A http://buff.ly/1mkr8VC /via @felsull
- This is hilarious on Graham Norton – Flirty text messages – http://buff.ly/1cEXK44 /via @lccarson
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IRL photoshopping-out pollution for Hong Kong tourists: http://kpcb.cc/1dE75gi via @tfadellpic.twitter.com/jUGXWf92tl /via @johnmaeda
- Wow- this this this on dating – Fuck Yes or No http://buff.ly/19ErX8D /via @triketora
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