Today was Sunday and “the day of Skype calls”. My fellow fellow Martin stayed at my place last night and for breakfast I had my first “eggs Benedict” (which are basically poached eggs with sauce hollandaise) in a close-by restaurant. There were good! Eggs. I should eat more eggs.
Then the call-athon began: I called my mother (because mother’s day), I called a friend, Martin and I called the other fellows, then I called the same friend again (since she’s planning to come to DC and we’re thinking about doing a short spin to Iceland), and then I called R, and all of that was very nice. And in between all that, I updated my portfolio with recent work: lisacharlotterost.de.
One of the highlights of my day was wondering around my neighborhood after Martin left. I live close to one of the biggest forests/parks here in DC - but parks in the US seem to be often cut in little pieces by parkways. Roads and cars in a city I don’t mind so much. Roads and cars in nature I hate. A parkway is not just one line in a countryside. A parkway means that even hundreds of meters away, you can still hear it. It pollutes all the surrounding areas with its noise. So the trees were great to look at, but imagine me walking around with headphones…and not even feeling bad about it.
Still, my little walk through the woods in hearing distance of roads was lovely. Since I’ve lived in Columbia Heights, I assumed that everything around me in at least one-mile-radius will look like the rest of DC: Some apartment buildings (like the one I live in) and some 3-floor buildings. But after leaving the park area, it turned out: That’s not the case. Suddenly I found myself in a medium rich version of the perfect historic suburbs: Big red-brick buildings, accurate mown lawn, big cars and…. no sidewalks. I’ve heard the rumors about small American towns with no sidewalks. I didn’t know these magical things exist a 10-min walk away from my place. Or in the borders of DC, at all. Woah.
Input? 2
Output? 3
Learnings?
Talking to editors and asking them on which ideas they are working and how they could need help with data skills, might be a great idea.
Questions?
How should I pitch ideas? To whom?