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1. Don't stay comfortable



...unless you're just, totally... just, DONE. 

(But there is NO WAY that you're totally done!!)

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2. Truth

Ohmigosh... am I starting to sound didactic with all these "don't"s? Hope not.

Eek, I had such fun with this one... just thinking about holding on to whatever it is that makes you GO in life, when you're being pulled in all different directions like Silly Putty. It's not always smooth sailing but the most important thing is honesty, integrity, truth—inward and outward! :D  Hey, my journey will never end as long as I'm here, but in my time I  have definitely learned a thing or two about being a happy person... inwardly and outwardly! :D
Have a great day!

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3. Don't Sleep


Here's one that's very fitting for me right now. Is it fitting for you, too? 
I actually LOVE my sleep—I feel like I can never get enough of it, sometimes... But alas, too busy right now to be too lazy about it. I get what I need and then it's off to the races. Another one of my favorite quotes sums it up: I can sleep when I'm dead. 
Maybe I'll do that one next. 

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4. Lunch hour




What can you accomplish in one hour, in the middle of the work day? I can think of lots of things.

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5. All that jazz


Jazzy, baby! Happy Wednesday.

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6. ..Really?

Remember when everyone was saying "Really? REALLY?" all the time?






Yep, me too.

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7. Pencil Quote - When you are having a bad day...


A quote day!  Not sure what drove this to pop into my head, but I like it. It's a little on the heavy side (like life is, sometimes) but it's most definitely true!

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8. Illustration Friday: Stitch

Hey! This kitty is stitchin'. Made this just for IF this week.

The style / size I used for this is the same 'template' I've been using all week on a project I completed. I illustrated many 2" x 1 5/8" greyscale illos for K workbooks. I tell you, sometimes, there is just nothing better for the work itself than being under the gun while doing it. (I'm not kidding...)

Working under the gun forces me to work quicker and therefore take some chances that I normally might not. It forces me to come up with solutions that WORK, and FAST!!! Working out a fairly complex composition quickly (and making sure it is done WELL) is really great exercise. Having deadlines honestly really helps with this. I know that that might sound very Type A of me, but it's the honest truth. (I love deadlines. There. I said it.) A sense of urgency can be a very good thing. This project let me flex all of those creative problem-solving muscles in the framework of a tight deadline. It's refreshing to work in that way sometimes. Just to do something quickly, and work with it. You're present all of the time - no time for daydreaming.
It's also kind of neat as a graphic designer to utilize those creative problem solving skills for design purposes, and then also see how they translate in the illustration part of the brain.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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9. The Moral Force of Majority Rule

Adrian Vermeule, author of Mechanisms of Democracy and co-author with Eric Posner of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts, is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. (The article below draws upon material in Chapters 3 and 4 of Adrian Vermeule, Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small, and upon Adrian Vermeule, “Absolute Majority Rules,” forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science ( Cambridge University Press, October 2007)).

Many institutions, public and private, use non-majoritarian voting rules for many issues. Supermajority rules, which require more than 50%+1 of the votes in order to change the status quo, are familiar; an example is the filibuster rule in the United States Senate, where 60 votes are necessary to force “cloture,” that is, to close debate on an issue. (more…)

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