Reading & writing
Feb. 7th, 2004 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichiganReading.
Volunteered at the Friends of the Ypsi Library shop today for the first time since November. It was the first time I'd worked a shift with someone younger than 50, a 15-year old high school student. She was cute in a nerdy way. I love readers, so this is the perfect volunteer gig for me. I get to sit somewhere quiet, read any book in the shop that I want, take people's money and make change, and chat with other book-lovers.
While at the shop, I read the first 45 pages or so of Deborah Tannen's "Talking 9 to 5" about workplace communication. I'd read her other book about male/female communication styles my senior year of college when taking my "American Dialects" class, and found it quite interesting and informative. This newer book just confirms some of my worst fears that in the business world, women's style of communication is seen as "weak," "indecisive" and "lacking confidence." Luckily, I've always been a bit more aggressive and masculine in my communication style (I'm a debater, for one thing). In the last few months, I've become very paranoid about asking my boss about questions, and just flounder around trying to figure things out myself. I guess that's what's seen as compentence. Feh!
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Writing.
I'm feeling optimistic about my non-work writing. So much of my energy and ideas get sucked up by 1. writing for the paper and 2. writing things on-line here and elsewhere, that I don't always have a lot of energy for outside creative writing. But, recently I've started making myself accountable to a few friends who are willing, forcing myself to write something and submit it to friends for critiquing at least once a month. I'm inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brighn's taking the challenge to write a novel in a month. If all these people across America can write a 50,000+ novel in 1 month, I can certainly churn out an essay or short story.
Volunteered at the Friends of the Ypsi Library shop today for the first time since November. It was the first time I'd worked a shift with someone younger than 50, a 15-year old high school student. She was cute in a nerdy way. I love readers, so this is the perfect volunteer gig for me. I get to sit somewhere quiet, read any book in the shop that I want, take people's money and make change, and chat with other book-lovers.
While at the shop, I read the first 45 pages or so of Deborah Tannen's "Talking 9 to 5" about workplace communication. I'd read her other book about male/female communication styles my senior year of college when taking my "American Dialects" class, and found it quite interesting and informative. This newer book just confirms some of my worst fears that in the business world, women's style of communication is seen as "weak," "indecisive" and "lacking confidence." Luckily, I've always been a bit more aggressive and masculine in my communication style (I'm a debater, for one thing). In the last few months, I've become very paranoid about asking my boss about questions, and just flounder around trying to figure things out myself. I guess that's what's seen as compentence. Feh!
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Writing.
I'm feeling optimistic about my non-work writing. So much of my energy and ideas get sucked up by 1. writing for the paper and 2. writing things on-line here and elsewhere, that I don't always have a lot of energy for outside creative writing. But, recently I've started making myself accountable to a few friends who are willing, forcing myself to write something and submit it to friends for critiquing at least once a month. I'm inspired by
brighn's taking the challenge to write a novel in a month. If all these people across America can write a 50,000+ novel in 1 month, I can certainly churn out an essay or short story.
