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uana i m considering a bunny too although in real life they don t make good pets now that i have the pets out of my system i am working on refurbishing a high end office building a job which i find myself taking very seriously because in real life i am smack in the middle of a big office move at one of my campuses and am learning a fair bit about office design and construction as a result i am hyper alert to functionality aesthetics and quality an d i want the imaginary future residents of this building to have an excellent space to work in it s also a great displacement activity to subvert my own real life new office anxiety who needs a therapist when you have house flipper kristen mchenry posted by kristen mchenry at 12 38 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday may 21 2022 dental shaming overly specific greeting cards cat lady hero well it s finally time time that i suck it up and go to the dentist that is before you judge me for avoiding the dentist just google redheads and dental pain for about two seconds and you shall be enlightened as to how my freakish genetics cause a routine trip the dentist to be a dread and pain filled experience for both me and the poor staff who have to deal with my nuttiness and my need for massive doses of numbing agents i was hoping to put my impending visit off just a little bit longer but my dentist office sent me a shockingly dental shaming email this week akin to a dear john letter basically telling me they aren t having any more of my bs and that they hope that if i don t want to see them anymore that i am getting dental care somewhere else and not neglecting my oral hygiene first of all i take umbrage to that phrasing i am not neglecting my oral hygiene i brush and floss and rinse with mouthwash twice or more a day it s not like my teeth are rotting out of my head and my breath smells like a garbage barge my teeth are fully intact and my breath smells as sweet as spearmint thanks to all of the sugarless gum i chew then they went on to flat out threaten to abandon me if i didn t make an appointment soon telling me that they would inactivate my chart if they didn t hear from me within 30 days look i don t want to go to the dentist but they can t just give up on me like that i have abandonment issues i can t believe they threatened to break up with me so i made the darned appointment already sheesh i hope they re happy now although in theory i love cards and stationary and all things beautiful paper and papyrus y i don t actually send out cards or letters very often i had to buy a card for a momentous occasion recently and i was completely addled by how oddly specific greeting cards have gotten they had greeting cards for every type of couple every obscure occasion every combination of life events and every age country of origin and creed i had to wade through a ton of cards to find just a general one that didn t list an exhaustive bio and specify the date of the event in question there used to just be birthday cards anniversary cards and sympathy cards with the occasional coveted blank card i don t know why there now needs to be card for every type of vacation vocation and possible life incident i can t put my finger on exactly why but i don t feel like this speaks well of us as a society i feel that it indicates a certain lack of faith in our imaginations and our ability to express ourselves i think it should be a routine practice to buy a blank card write your own message on it and send it to a friend or relative at least once a quarter to keep those expressive juices flowing and to remind people that email and text is not the only mode of communication available to humans my beloved house flipper game recently released new content in which you can have pets i downloaded it right away and was completely delighted during the tutorial when you open a random box and are greeted with an adorable writhing golden retriever puppy i was captivated but even more excited when i discovered i could adopt a husky i have always wanted a husky and i have been living out my husky owning desires with my adoptee junebug who i take with me on all of my flipping jobs it s me and junebug against the house flipping world she s fun and very low maintaince with the new content came some new jobs one of which is for the world s most controlling cat lady i was in awe of her she said that she didn t trust me and that she was very risk averse so she laid out every single piece of furniture tile and paint that she wanted on big palettes on her lawn so as to idiot proof the job she even went so far as to build a special ladder so i could get to the higher ceilings i appreciate the way she thinks she was very organized and really thought ahead the event planner in me applauds controlling cat lady eventually i m going to build myself a giant house flipper pet empire full of turtles and iguanas and bunnies and tropical fish but for now i am content with junebug kristen mchenry posted by kristen mchenry at 10 29 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 8 2022 bells of venice latent strategist too far in t hanks to range the book i reviewed in last week s post i recently made the astonishing discovery that in 18 th century venice there was a famous orphanage called the ospedale della pietà orphanage of pity that became known for producing some of the world s most accomplished female musicians for some reason i was captivated by the detail that outside of the orphanage there was a stand of drawers if a baby was small enough to fit into a drawer it could be left there and when the drawer was closed a bell would go off and one of the nuns would come and collect the baby many of the babies left there were born of ladies of ill repute but some were illegitimate children born to members of royal families the story of how the orphanage developed their young musicians is fascinating but not as interesting to me as pondering how many times a day that bell rang i imagine early morning misty venetian skies the mournful sound of the bell and the mother scuttling furtively away her figure hidden in a bonnet and voluminous skirt there is a whole other story to be told there aside from the virtuoso musicians along with reading range i also took a test i ve take many a personality test before mostly work related and many of them quite pricey and elaborate affairs with dubious results this latest test survey analysis was the cliftonstrengths assessment which reveals your top five strengths i found the assessment itself quite stressful because it s timed and many of the statements you are supposed to agree or disagree with require a lot of thought and processing but you only have twenty seconds to make a decision on each one i suppose that makes sense since they don t want you endlessly prevaricating but it really put the pressure on i wasn t super surprised at most of my results empathy connectedness developer adaptability all of which fall into the relationship building category but i was quite surprised to find that strategic came up in my top five i m still puzzling my way through that one i have never thought of myself as particularly strategic i think ahead but i have always felt that is based more on a n xiety than any innate chess champion like instincts in fact i hate chess and have a whole story about when i worked for a chess company once and had to fake passion for it for a year and half but maybe i m selling myself short and i could have a second career as a brilliant strategist creating strategies or whatever it is they do speaking of strategies i am inching ever closer to that elusive pull up by getting uber agressive with the assisted pull up machine lowering the assist weight further and further each time and holding myself in place when i can t pull myself up any further i m about 30 35 pounds away from a single pull up it s disheartening that it s taking forever to get there but i have also gained a fair bit of muscle in my legs making them heavier and have put on a little more weight after upping my calories which i need to increase even more to keep up with all of the weight lifting it s like a dog chasing its tail at this point but i m in too far now to give up the day will come my chickadees i have no doubt of it last week s video featured vivaldi who was a fixture at the ospedale della pietà teaching violin and writing many pieces for their orchestra here s some more vivaldi to tickle your ears kristen mchenry posted by kristen mchenry at 1 26 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 1 2022 book review range why generalists triumph in a specialized world recently i was blessed to have been able to establish a formal mentorship at work with a very accomplished leader although we ve only had a few sessions so far i ve really been enjoying the experience she recommended a book called range why generalists triumph in a specialized world by david epstein it s a fascinating read with much food for thought i work in the health care field and it s brimming with narrowly hyper specialized roles so it s been very heartening to read about the power of a good generalist which i believe i am my work life in mostly scrappy non profits forced me to get competent quickly at a lot of different things and to be constantly adaptable because i ve always had to take on multiple roles within a single job i ve generally worked without a map pre established guidelines or a linear path i never thought much about this style as having specific advantages and benefits it s just how things played out and i discovered that i preferred it that way i don t like the feeling of being locked into any one thing so reading epstein s book has opened my eyes to the wisdom of this approach which is hard to see when the cultural message is the opposite i couldn t say it better than author daniel h pink in his review of range for too long we ve believed in a single path to excellence start early specialize soon narrow your focus aim for efficiency but in this groundbreaking book david epstein shows that in most domains the way to excel is something altogether different sample widely gain a breadth of experiences take detours and experiment relentlessly i m a few chapters in and although so far there has been a lot of chess talk i understand where epstein is going with all of it someone has to champion and defend us jacks of all trades those of us who can apply our skills to multiple domains and who can adapt on the fly i think that the overwhelming cultural push to narrow our career paths stick to the known road and god forbid never experiment has damaged our ability to innovate as a nation i remember the intense frustration i would feel when i interviewed for jobs and would be turned down because i didn t have experience in the particular industry the job was in although i demonstratively had the skills to perform the job itself my attitude has always been that you can almost always learn an industry on the job the important thing is having transferable skills which is something that still seems pretty lost on corporate america i read some ago about how difficult it was for ex military folks to find work because companies simply couldn t fathom how to use them which i find astounding ex military would be the first people i would hire were i in a position to hire people i realize that my just plunk me down anywhere and i ll figure it out career approach may not be the stuff of linkedin advice articles but it s baked into my career cake now and even if i wanted to change it i wouldn t be able to without enormous cost and little benefit and that s okay somehow mysteriously i always manage to find a place for myself it s the first day of may which is astonishing to me spring is bleary eyed and slow to wake up in seattle this year i m not generally a fan of the sun but i wouldn t say no to a little more light and warmth while we wait for spring to drag herself out of bed enjoy some vivaldi kristen mchenry posted by kristen mchenry at 11 51 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 24 2022 poem of the month the odyssey i m posting this poem here today without much commentary i wrote it after coming out of a certain calamity a number of years ago and now it feels to me that it applies again as we are emerging from the pandemic i had my own ordeals with the pandemic and as i write this i find myself feeling the need to make sure that i let everyone know that i am fully aware that my pain was nowhere close to the pain others suffered that my calamities and griefs and losses were minor in comparison to so many who went through much worse than i did and all of that being true doesn t change what i experienced or make it less painful retroactively i m telling you this so that you can remember it for yourself as well the odyssey this is the year i swam length by length back into my body i swam with smooth sinuous strokes and tireless limbs i swam without faith or a way to mark time i swam in the void the sea swallowed whole i swam in soundless solitary stupefying terrible and swift now i rise like a heron in the midnight pond my spine is infinite my bones divine upon re entry i find my flesh intact it is worshipful this vessel its storm of neurons its earthen feet the prayer of my hips my heart s cauldron my ribs engorged with grief my belly a safe house i shocked the clocks into obedience in time i will rise and rise again come to rest in this spawning ground kristen mchenry posted by kristen mchenry at 2 19 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 17 2022 book bonanza pull up potential the mighty ostrich i find myself with a sudden collision of books all bumping and bouncing into one another and as a result i am having a bad case of book add this never used to happen to me i would read two to three books a week easily this is before i discovered tomb raider and never felt the need to read more than one book at at time but you see what happened was grown ups by marian keyes finally came out on kindle just at around the same time that her long anticipated sequel to rachel s holiday was released and i downloaded the first one before knowing about the second one s release date then greedily starting reading both this is in addition to the newest paperback edition of fiction which arrived in the mail at the same time in tandem with me trying to finish total power a thriller about the take down of the us power grid by terrorists this is not even to mention the fountainhead which has lain dormant in my kindle since last summer i need calm down take a deep breath and think methodically i shall make a list read one book at at time and check them tidily off of my mental list or maybe even a physical list ...