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What Are Your Core Principles? Your Main Values?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty Three] I’m asked this one a lot lately and, thankfully, I’ve thought about it quite a bit and even wrote it down. My core principles are to embrace radical transparency and fail often; while I sometimes struggle with one, I’m rather successful with the other. My core values…
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If You Can Dream It?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty Two] Girl Twin and I went for a walk – she rode her balance bike while I walked. Sometimes she would shoot ahead, letting her legs and the wheels take her faster than my walking gait. “You must run, Mama.” And sometimes I did. But first the news:…
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Have You Heard of Second Holiday Days?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty One] It’s a perfectly normal thing here, but it’s NOT an American thing, so you can imagine my surprise EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. when it happens for Easter and Ascension day and White Sunday and Christmas. What else happens on Mondays? Trash day. Therefore every time it’s a holiday…
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I Still Bought A Towel
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Eighty] I re-counted after posting yesterday and realized it was actually 17 / 16 / 11 which is forty four. Not forty two. Ah, well. But first the news: Dutch stop giving AstraZeneca vaccine to under-60s pending review Woman dies of lung embolism after AstraZeneca vaccine People who had…
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Forty Two!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Nine] This week’s interview total is eleven bringing the grand total over the past three weeks up to forty two interviews. Considering I took two entire days off of interviewing, I’m rather impressed with this week’s numbers. Also, I’m super tired. But first the news: Coronavirus cases may…
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Sometimes You Just Go Blank
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Eight] Sometimes you do really well and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you know the answers and sometimes you don’t. And sometimes your brain freaks out after a long day and just goes blank. Like just now. UGH But first the news: Coronavirus cases levelling off, more patients in…
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! !
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Seven] Tell your favourite trans people you see them. We love that. In the interest of full disclosure, yes, I identify as a bi-sexual non-binary trans feminine queer person; my pronouns are they / them. I’m trans. See me. But first the news: Five Utrecht bars will open…
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Wait, Is This Vacation?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Six] I’m taking today and tomorrow FULLY OFF of interviews and holy heckin’ it’s been a chillax day. Mostly. But first the news: Coronavirus cases increase by 13%, biggest rise in over-70s Covid-19 vaccines given to 11.7% of Netherlands adults Coronavirus vaccination fails to meet Dutch government’s targets…
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Preparing for the OfferZen SheSharp Maker’s Event
@OfferZen @SheSharpNL Maker’s event prep! #OfferZenMake
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Welcome to the OfferZen Community
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Four] This Wednesday I’m super chuffed to join an OfficeZen + SheSharp Maker’s workshop. We’re gonna make a self watering plant sensor!! ! My swag box arrived yesterday. Tomorrow I’m going to do the prep workshop. Live. On a stream. Should be fun, eh? But first the news:…
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“So Tell Me About Yourself, Rain”
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Seventy Two] Within my CV you may have noticed that I have an undergrad in Dance and a Master’s in IT which is very much who I am. I was a professional dancer in the United States and if you’re a professional dancer in the United States, you need…