Fresh New Day» jungle http://freshnewday.net Seeing every day for the first time Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:23:45 +0000 en hourly 1 284 – Friday fades http://freshnewday.net/2010/06/11/284-friday-fades/ http://freshnewday.net/2010/06/11/284-friday-fades/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:04:39 +0000 Lynsey http://freshnewday.net/?p=3909 284
Friday. Friday! TGIF. Casual Friday. Mine: Full colour Friday – an opportunity to wear brighter colours. But not today. Friday fades. I head back to work today – a one day working week should be good for everyone. My desk, phone, email inbox, physical inbox … my work runneth over. It’s not that I’m famous or essential, it’s just that work undone accumulates, in particular, on my desk. I want tell people to solve their own problems, to go away and act like an adult for a moment. I don’t though. I swing my blade and I start to chop a path through the jungle. I’m still not feeling 100% – I feel that after a week off work I’m ready for a week off work. I feel like a moth without a flame. My photos are just not working for me, so I use this shot Marica made of me blurring out around the edges.

We’re driving home after work. Our car struggles with the hills and glides, fading elegantly into our driveway. We’re all unwell. We’re all unhappy.

Manifesto
47. Every day you are responsible.
48. Every day there are things you can’t change. You can change the way you think about them and deal with them.
50. Every day has an ending.

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There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. — Philip Knight

It’s been a weekend of work here. My Dad’s generation wouldn’t have recognised it as being work – there’s no sweat so there’s no work. Fortified with coffee and potato crisps I’ve spent the last couple of days building web sites for customers. Some tv wandered past – I didn’t watch. Some cds were played – I didn’t listen. So, where to from here? I climb into my head and wrestle code and negotiate with the web hosting people and juggle this and jungle that. And when I finally climb back out of create mode it’s time for hot coffee and real food. I’m tired and ready for a hot shower and a sleep. It might not be sweaty work, Dad, but it’s work nevertheless.

Manifesto
41. Every day use your mind. It is the greatest technology ever created.
44. Every day remember how far you have come.
50. Every day has an ending.

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