{"id":161,"date":"2015-03-17T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T02:12:12","slug":"self-made-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"self made pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK NINE &#8211; (march 2-5)<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed the difference between POST dates and the headings of WEEK dates &#8211; they are coming together.<br \/>\nWhilst the project started in January the posts only started in March.<br \/>\nThis week, week nine, is blog week for me. Time to get the written diary out in the open.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m aiming to get a weeks activity loaded up each day to catch up to real time as quickly as possible.<br \/>\nThe blog will certainly be fiddled with for a few weeks while I work my way around WordPress. \u2028I am very much a design-as-you-goer\/tweaker who reads instructions&#8230;sort of:)<\/p>\n<p>So this week I flit from from upstairs on the computer, to downstairs where I am continuing on with the first set of Laminex samples. I have another nine finished on Tuesday but need to pick up the pace and finish this first project in the next couple of weeks\u2026..there are SO many other things I want to explore.<\/p>\n<p>My usual mode of moving a project on is to divide it into achievable parts. I now pile up the Laminex samples into a pile for this week and for next week.<br \/>\nSelf made pressure, self made deadlines, both very necessary.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m making inroads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"flying through the piles\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-2-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between the upstairs\/downstairs movement I take the odd coffee break to read.<br \/>\nMy reading pile is always growing and diverse &#8211; it does also diminish, albeit slightly, and temporarily.<br \/>\nI have shown you a few of the books in the <strong>swan study<\/strong> pile but there are also more stacks around. I read fiction and non fiction daily plus keep up magazines as they arrive in my inbox or mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>This week I\u2019ve been reading a great book, 33 Artists in 3 acts by Sarah Thornton.\u00a0 Learning about these big guys in the contemporary art scene, and their world, is quite unexpected &#8211; some have egos, others not, all are totally dedicated to their world.<br \/>\nLuckily my little feet have no desire to walk in their big boots &#8211; the world they inhabit feels like outer space. A fascinating, human-ising, well written read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-164\" src=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"33 artists in 3 acts - a great read\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/week-nine-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has been a busy week of swapping between the blog, drawing feathers and this book. Eagerness to get on with each in turn has made the week fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEEK NINE &#8211; (march 2-5) You may have noticed the difference between POST dates and the headings of WEEK dates &#8211; they are coming together. Whilst the project started in January the posts only started in March. This week, week nine, is blog week for me. Time to get the written diary out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[2,4,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}