{"id":2074,"date":"2019-06-26T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:36:52","slug":"062019-take-yourself-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2019\/06\/062019-take-yourself-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"062019: Take Yourself With You"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Me

(Picture of me being happy in Vienna a couple of weeks ago)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s 9.30pm and 21\u00b0C outside, which is quite nice. I am sitting on my sofa while typing this; after I spent 50 per cent of the weekend sick in bed, another 25 per cent with friends, and the remaining 25 per cent with myself, which I\u2019ve been enjoying a lot lately.<\/p>\n

So what has been happening?! I admire people who manage to send out newsletters on a very regular basis, but I am not one of them. That\u2019s actually good for you, because I guess I am not the only one with tons of unread newsletters in my inbox, which I\u2019d LIKE to read but eventually just mark as read because there is so much other stuff to read and see and do.<\/p>\n

In general: I\u2019ve learned a lot about what kind of person I am and what I am not, and accepting both has been a big relief recently. I am not a travel-person, for example, at least not right now, and that\u2019s okay. I am, however, a picky eater, and that\u2019s okay too. I\u2019ve spent\u00a0years<\/em>\u00a0trying not to be one; trying to like everything, but you know what: Liking everything is ~not joyful~ at all. Being at ease with the things you can and cannot fulfill is fantastic, and it makes coping with life so much easier. Cool that I only needed 27 years to figure that out.<\/p>\n

Sitting here, on a Sunday night, with a cold soda and an uncomfortably warm laptop on my lap, made me remember my last summer: I\u2019ve spent it completely inside, writing my thesis, letting the warm days pass by. I am not a lake person, or a picknick person, but I definitely am a summer person. I am looking forward to making it count (a bit more) this year.<\/p>\n

Hard facts to add some links to this letter: We\u2019ve polished\u00a0Zeit Online<\/a>\u00a0a little bit (as in: we removed the sidebar, and made everything a bit nicer and bigger and better). When I showed the designs to readers, no one noticed a difference, and that was okay. I wasn\u2019t trying to design something new; I just wanted to improve the existing thing, and as Lucius Burckhardt taught me: Good\u00a0Design is invisible<\/a>. (Bitter pill to swallow at first, admittedly.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been blogging (yes, I still do that occasionally): I drew\u00a0manspreaders<\/a>\u00a0I saw on the train, I cycled behind a woman with a\u00a0carpet beater<\/a>, and I drew a selfie of me on my\u00a0therapist\u2019s sofa<\/a>. I generally try to draw more on my\u00a0instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even during summer, sofas seem to be my happy place. Nothing wrong with that! That\u2019s why I\u2019m sending you kindest regards from between these pillows here right now, and kindly ask you to stay cool and use sunscreen during the next days.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s 9.30pm and 21\u00b0C outside, which is quite nice. I am sitting on my sofa while typing this; after I spent 50 per cent of the weekend sick in bed, another 25 per cent with friends, and the remaining 25 per cent with myself, which I\u2019ve been enjoying a lot lately. So what has been … 062019: Take Yourself With You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206,1200],"tags":[44,41,2,43],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christels-corner","category-gefuehlslagen","tag-christels-corner","tag-english","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}