Heading into the Weekend...

[lagilman]

This weekend, I am not at ECCC or at the Supernatural convention happening in town.  Mainly because I didn't get my act together in time to deal with either.  So it goes.  The weekend seems to be filled with Stuff to Do, anyway.  Imagine that.  :-)

Life is chaotic, and a little stressy, but good.  This diagram pretty much sums it up.  Sadly, it doesn't say "you are paid WELL for it."  But yeah, there are some compensations for hitting the sweet spot....



relatedly, have a picture of my office-mate from yesterday afternoon.



He was about a foot away from me, sitting politely (and surprisingly quietly) for about 15 minutes, before deciding I was far too dull for any self-respecting bird to be wasting time on...

I've always loved gulls - they're such fierce, noisy, gorgeous creatures.  Greedy, yeah, but no more so than is their nature.  So having this guy quietly  hang with me while I worked felt a bit like a benediction....


May we all have such moments, however we define them, every day....

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I like gulls too. They have a sort of raucous intelligence that is really appealing. I have had the experience of hand feeding them from a ferry boat, as they flew. Fun!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The sweet spot is a good place.
I keep coming back to the Lewis Hyde thing about the tension between the creative arts and capitalism: how we are perpetually expected to measure ourselves by that single scale which favours the few and values almost nothing. And punishes us severely for 'failure' defined equally narrowly, in terms of money. There has to be a better system.

[paulliver.livejournal.com]

Jeanette Winterson writes about art v capitalism quite a lot in her collection of essays "Art Objects." You should check it out.

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I will: thank you.

[paulliver.livejournal.com]

I have a vocation and a passion...that's the best I can do.