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@laura-willowes
i just met with a student for my pain-in-the-ass essay editing job.
it wasn't a terribly frustrating meeting, but i just wanted things to come together a bit more smoothly, i guess. but it's a process.
i just wanted to take a moment to appreciate that this kid said during our meeting today that this essay is going to be the best thing he's ever written.
i am the facilitator of it!!! the best thing this kid has ever written!
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the way my brother-in-law (sister's husband) talks about my parents is extremely disrespectful. he seems to genuinely think he is superior to them.
i have issues with my parents. serious and substantial issues. but they raised me to be humble, which is more than my brother-in-law can say about his parents.
i did a cold call yesterday and had a half hour networking meeting with a stranger today.
i did... ok in the meeting. not my best, and not my worst. i feel like i was a bit goofy. i think i am starting to lose my mind a little bit.
i need to take a couple of days and not talk to any strangers about my business. it really takes a toll!!
the hustle is such a weird, uncomfortable mindset. always feeling like i have something to prove, something i need to convince people of, and knowing they have power over my livelihood. put simply, it sucks.
it's not great! i hope to get to the point where i have actual relationships with these people and can relax and just be myself. but i am not there yet.
in the meantime i should find a way to reframe this work so i lose my mind less. that's what my therapist would say, lol.
i did a cold call just now. the person was very nice to me even though she was expecting another call and could not talk to me. she said to email her with some info about what i'm looking for, and we would set up a time to meet.
i'll believe it when i see it, but i am cautiously optimistic.
at this point i am a woman who has heard no one too many times, and i am prepared to beg and/or pay money to hear yes. that is the vibe. i need a fucking break here.
and uh hopefully people will respond to my... *~passion~*.
UPDATE: THE MEETING HAS! BEEN! SCHEDULED!
this person has the power to catalyze the growth of my business, so i am VERY nervous, omg.
i did a cold call just now. the person was very nice to me even though she was expecting another call and could not talk to me. she said to email her with some info about what i'm looking for, and we would set up a time to meet.
i'll believe it when i see it, but i am cautiously optimistic.
at this point i am a woman who has heard no one too many times, and i am prepared to beg and/or pay money to hear yes. that is the vibe. i need a fucking break here.
and uh hopefully people will respond to my... *~passion~*.
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i got a kindle bc i could get one secondhand and it was cheaper than buying a new kobo, but i loathe amazon and am still beholden to their stupid software and rules, so maybe i should have just sprung for the kobo.
i'm going to pay $20 to remove lockscreen ads so i can have the cover of the book i'm currently reading as my lockscreen, bringing the price closer to the kobo anyway...
idk man. i did my best with this decision. perhaps i got it wrong. but also i'm going to have a functioning e-reader that i can hopefully use for the next decade. so how wrong can i possible be?
i just called the administrator at the synagogue i was involved in for a while and asked her for help with marketing strategy. i made her LAUGH with my awareness of how ridiculous my request was.
after doing all the cold calls i've been doing, having someone laugh at my self-aware ridiculousness was so beautiful.
i have made extraordinary progress toward building my business. like. i've figured out so much.
but there is one piece of my marketing strategy that i haven't figured out yet, and it is driving me crazy. i feel like i'm so close to succeeding, but if i don't get this one piece of the jenga tower, it all falls down. i cannot succeed without this piece. and i cannot figure out how to get it to work.
it is maddening.
but i am also aware of the fact that i do have part of my marketing strategy that IS working. and it took me years to figure it out. i just NEED the other part as well. both of them work together. long term, one cannot work without the other.
i reached out to my contact at the small business development center who I haven’t spoken to in three years. hopefully she’ll listen to exactly what i'm struggling with and help me make this work. i really need help. 😫
people, including and especially "experts", like to suggest all sorts of crazy shit when it comes to marketing strategy, and they usually don't listen to me when i tell them what works for me and what doesn't. i am very clear about how i want to do this. i am very clear about what works for me and the parameters in which i'd like to operate. so hopefully this lady will really listen.
the writing i've done for my business is good. my newsletter and blog are GOOD. esp my newsletter. it actually rips sometimes.
98% of the time, i feel like all of this writing is stupid and a waste of time because nobody reads it, and it is therefore ineffective at marketing. but 2% of the time, i look at my body of work and feel proud.
perhaps SOMEONE at some point will come across this body of work and be like "wow, i want to hire this woman for college counseling, which is barely what she writes about."
i mostly write about culture and politics. all of it RELATES to what i do, but i never write, like, "here are some tips for filling out the common app," lol. i'm a giant picture kind of gal.
in grad school i went to my advisor and asked if i could take a postcolonial feminist film theory class as an elective in my m.ed. degree. my justification was like "it's about society and in teaching you also encounter society in your classroom. like all the dynamics that are out there in the world also show up in your classroom." and she was like "yeah, right on," and i took the class.
this example is emblematic of how i view all my work, lol.
i have done three cold calls so far this week. THREE! that's more than i've done cumulatively in the past two years.
i've gotten nowhere in terms of my goal but i DO deserve a medal anyway.
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imagine, if you will, a job that you "only" work ten hours a month, but your boss emails you every day, sometimes multiple times a day.
i already quit. i am gradually transitioning out of it bc i made commitments to children that i intend on honoring. but i continue to marvel over how stupid it is.
today i am wearing a solid blue linen button-up that i found at the thrift store back in the fall. i love this shirt! it is very simple but excellent. sometimes you find stuff like that! and frankly that is my favorite kind of stuff because you can rewear it a million times and nobody will notice.
i rewear stuff a lot. i cycle through approximately five outfits. and the printed stuff is what is memorable. somebody clocking that i've repeated an outfit is not going to stop me from wearing printed clothing, but it's also nice to go incognito.
entrepreneurship sucks. i had a phone call this morning that was basically a punch in the stomach. i held it together during the call and cried when i hung up.
and now i am extremely frustrated and pissed off. i want to punch someone in the face. but i am at my service-oriented day job.
i generally think being a little bit grumpy and mean is part of my tutoring persona, and people who like it come back for more, but today i am way grumpier than usual. i am usually just grumpy because students ask me to do stuff they should be doing themselves. so i say "i'm not doing that for you. do it yourself." LOL. but today my grumpiness goes beyond that.
i feel very very discouraged.
BREAKING NEWS: i finally found an overnight oats recipe i like. i am an overnight oats eater now. i eat cold oats now. i feel like a changed woman.
they are delicious, super easy and fun to make, and then you can just take them out of the fridge and eat them!!! no prep required! fully make-ahead! so easy!
the recipe is from rainbow plant life. i wrote it down myself bc she requires you to sign up for an email list to get the written recipe.
tip: for the boiling water you can use a kettle. and you don't really have to measure. just put in the cocoa powder first and then pour in a small amount of hot water, just enough for the cocoa to dissolve into.
i have one swimsuit. it is very beautiful. i am very happy with it.
i do not need any more swimsuits. that's all i came here to say. i browse sometimes but my swimsuit is so gorgeous that i cannot even be tempted!!!
if i were to go on a beach vacation i would need more but my current lifestyle only requires one.
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some women describe themselves as "plus size." they use it as an adjective. and that's nice. it's nice to have an adjective you can use to describe your body size.
i would like to use it for myself but i don't know if i'm allowed because i don't wear plus size clothing most of the time. my measurements are usually not on the size chart.
am i taking this too literally? can i call myself plus size even if i do not literally wear plus size clothing most of the time?
i would like to align myself with the plus size girlies because they are COOL.
it's annoying that i feel the need to have some sort of body-related identity. i'd like to be more human than body, if that makes sense. my body size is secondary if even a thing that people perceive. it i can get there that would be rad as hell.
trying to stay dry in the summer is such a struggle for me. i sweat a lot. i don't have a medical problem--i can still hold stuff in my hand without it slipping--but i sweat A LOT.