Anjasaurus

Apparently I’ve caught a cold again.. Irritating to say the least. I just hope it’s not the swine flu, but this feels like a cold, and not a flu. :)

And honestly there’s not that much I have to do right now, just a lot of reading and thinking, which can just as easily be done from bed. I think my body is trying to tell me something though. “Yes, you’re eating great and I’m happy with that, but stop being so stressed and stop running around!”. I know my body, and I know myself, I should have known this was coming.

On another, partly related note, I’ve read a few discussions on female bosses, female “perfection” and performance anxiety the last week. The first post started with the theory that the only female “role models” we see are the perfect ones. Those that can combine family, recreation and a well-paid well-done job, and seemingly without killing themselves. The blog writer then said that we need to make this picture more real, and take down the expectations women put on themselves. “I can’t work with that, I’m not even close to as good as her/him”. So, she posted a few points where she feels she’s not as good as she wants to be, and said “See, I have this nice job as a manager and I’m not perfect in anyway”.

I think it was uplifting to see it from that perspective :) Of course we don’t need to get better at pointing out our bad sides, we are probably all experts at that. But, there needs to be a bigger tolerance in the way we depict female success. There are a lot of “bad” male managers in media, but not as many bad female managers. Part of the problem is most likely that there aren’t as many women to choose from, and it’s politically incorrect to single out a bad female manager.

And finally, we all need to get better at telling ourselves we’re good, we can make a difference and we are valuable. Plus, perfect is abstract and boring.