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Vogue USA March 2009

It's become almost routine, my whining about not having enough time to blog about any decent topic for long. No doubt, life has become fuller and fuller, but I must learn to adapt somehow and make the time work for me even harder.

In truth, I've been so caught up with this new job that I find myself checking work email at home on Sundays! And actually replying!

It's all good. Some funny thing snapped in me just recently, when I made up my mind to confirm that I would stay on here for good. I think I finally feel, um, AT HOME. I work even later than I ever did before, and far more frequently than I ever did, but this job requires so much more of me. It's good to stretch out. I couln't learn how far I can reach until I did.

Not to say I'm anywhere near the top right now. But I see light where I could only envision drudge this time last year. That's good. Optimism in this time and place has its role.

One other little thing that is making me feel upbeat. I just purchased Vogue USA's March 2009 issue on Friday. First Lady Michelle is on the cover, looking not so much like a million bucks as L'Oreal's famous tagline: "She's worth it". This is their annual power issue, and it is filled with stories of women. Not women thrust into power, but women who own and wield the power of the fullness of their lives. It is in a sense more about empowerment than actual power......something here resonates with me right now.

The NY shows are done!

Woo. First Fashion Week gone in flash.

Of note to me: Phi - in which I could imagine Carine Roitfeild's head superimposed on every sleek model body on the catwalk. Chado Ralph Rucci, Calvin Klein - for the black head/hair bands - I've been rockin' a wide patent black one for the past 2 seasons - yay! L'Wren Scott, who is a rock chick through and through - for the Twilight-inspired looks and feel (yes, THAT teen-flick vampire movie).

Three months in

I've been in a new job for the past 3 months. It's been quite a ride, but I'm really liking it. It's good to be doing something consuming which is enjoyable. There's tedium, of course. Nothing is a laugh a minute in life. But it's nice to have tedium amongst all the new stuff.

The last two weeks have been especially taxing. I have been answering to four heads. All with completely different personalities. Each asking for something totally different. Come next week though, I think I'll be whittling the scope down to something more specific. Goodness knows, I hope I've made the right choice.

I've certainly been a bad enough judge of character in the past.

Meanwhile, just a few random shower thoughts:

If you could rubbish a specialist by something within their own field, what would it be? Urologists would be pricks, colorectal surgeons would be a**holes, cardiologists would be heartless, and O&G's would be b*stards. Oh, and orthopods would be knuckleheads. Endocrinologists would be PMS-ing all the time. Pulmonologists would be full of hot air. Neurologists would be nervous wrecks.

Won't tell you what I am.....