No Draft, Just Writing

Holy busy Spring!

What's the latest update on the Xo front?

WELL...

This is what I look like when I travel/
send lame texts to my friends during the work day. 

This little piggy went to the Minnesota market and ran around town like it ain't no thang. Translation: I went to yoga a lot, raided Trader Joe's (Sorry Nat) and had a girl's night where we stayed up past our bedtimes and did yoga moves in the living room.

I started a new side-gig working in Social Media with a company I met out of Chicago. Learning a new role has been a really interesting process. It's been a long time since I've been the "new guy" at anything and it's weird feeling like I'm blindfolded running a maze. You get so used to knowing everything-- where to go, what to do, who to ask-- that it's stressful to not just understand. That's a confidence I think we take for granted no matter how much we gripe and whine about the daily challenges we meet in our jobs.

Overall, it's a great experience-- Social Media, Writing, Public Relations, Travel & Food. I want to keep my toes dipped into all of these ponds and right now I've got a decent handle on a few of them, so it makes each week interesting to say the least. Don't worry, I won't tip over... yet.

It makes me miss learning, though. Part of that could come from the fact that I ran into one of my favorite college professors at the Twins game, and part of it can come from the End of School season that is upon us. It's like Back to School only you feel like you really have no excuse not to kick your life into gear because you've got "less" on your plate. I feel my molecules starting to move a little faster in anticipation of our 16-year habit that we haven't quite kicked.

I don't plan on watching TRL or hanging out in Park Point all summer so instead I plan to really hone in on the projects I've got going before I take on my next one in the fall. It's taking everything in me to not do it all at once. Literally, as I sit here with tabs open on my future project, I just want to tell myself "Go"/write about it on here so I have a reason to start on it now, but I'm still really working on being fair to myself about how I allot my time and energy.

Does anyone else feel like their permanent student is leaking out this spring?

Like you're squirrely but know that if you take on anything else, you might implode? But then part of you wants to? No? Yes??