#BreakThings: Transmittal

02.18.21

When you work in state government, your life is governed by the transmittal deadline. A bill originating in one chamber must have been passed to the other chamber by that date or it dies. As you might imagine, this makes the week prior to the deadline a frenetic sprint.

So if I disappear for a day or two, don’t worry. I’m just so buried in work that taking a minute to breathe becomes a luxury. Thankfully it’s temporary.

In my younger years, I only exercised to stay skinny. This has permanently messed up my relationship with working out. I know that my body needs to move, needs to sweat, and needs to be in better shape, but it’s hard to think of exercise as something positive after years of turning it into a punishment. This article from Self offers seven ways to help you heal your relationship with exercise.

Every time I write a cover letter, I am overcome with writer’s block. How to start? What to say? It’s like my mind becomes frozen.

Career Contessa hopes to break the ice with these winning opening lines that make your cover letter stand out from the crowd.

Minimalist design is all the rage, and these Viva Scandinavia teapots, mugs, and serveware bring that design to your daily coffee and tea. I adore the styles and colors. They’d make a great gift, even if that gift is for yourself.

Breaking up is hard to do, esp. in a COVID world. Cosmopolitan offers some great, situation-specific suggestions for how to say goodbye via text without ghosting the person. Because no one likes a 👻.

This video shows the triumphant moment with a handful of hard working walk-on players found out they were being put on scholarship.

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