I was interviewed for a book this week. I've never been interviewed for a book before. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it ended up being a really wonderful conversation about friendship and connection at work. It's a topic I love to talk about and I have a lot of opinions about. If I ever decide to go back to grad school, I think I'd focus my research on workplace friendships. I've been lucky to make some wonderful friends at work and I can't stress enough how important it is to have at least one close friend at work. I even wrote about this years ago on
LinkedIn. One of my very best friends is someone I met at work. I can't imagine not being her friend and it's only because of work that we met.
Anyway, it's sort of funny/ironic that this particular conversation would take place during this month's stitch journal. This month is focused on the language we use in our work lives and how it can be powerful in terrible ways. Some of the words and phrases I've embroidered so far this month have been things I've heard or have been directed at me in very negative ways. Some are just overused and annoying.
Programming note: Since November has a half week, I plan to do two more posts this month rather than waiting until the end of the month for the final recap. December is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to the last stitch journal of the year.
Here's this week's recap:
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| November 12 - yes, because we'd want whatever we're working on to be terrible. |
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| November 13 - this one always makes me think of that episode of Friends with Ross and the couch. He was always the worst. |
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| November 14 - I tried reverse chain stitch for the first time. It's much faster than regular chain stitch, but my first attempt was a bit messy. Like having lots of moving parts. |
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| November 15 - And this completes the front of the skirt! |
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| November 16 - blue sky thinking is basically brainstorming without limitations...which is just brainstorming. I always think of the Steve Martin movie My Blue Heaven whenever anyone says this and then I get distracted because that movie definitely needed a sequel. |
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| November 17 - one of the most contentious meetings I have ever attended involved a dude repeatedly saying we needed to "drill down" on the issue impacting the thing that was happening despite the fact that we already had and had told him exactly what the problem was. I actually had to stop the meeting because he started to verbally abuse a colleague. Meetings should probably be outlawed. |
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| November 18 - I say this one all the time. I love the idea of having key takeaways from a conversation or a training, but I know people forget them five minutes after we finish the call. |
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I hope to get started on a new project this week. I present my practice tour today, so I can shift to something different once that's done. I'm thinking of working on a small abstract piece while I decide what else I want to do. I also have to start prepping for December's stitch journal...it's almost time (wild).
I'm also figuring out what I'm planning to work on for 2024's big project. I have a few ideas, but none of them have lodged into my brain in the way this year's project did. More to come.
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