The Morning Missive

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If I Yawn On A Call Today, Please Take It Up With My Seven-Pound Puppy Jailer.
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If I Yawn On A Call Today, Please Take It Up With My Seven-Pound Puppy Jailer.

Amy Widdowson
Oct 12, 2021
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Darlings! It’s been ages as I’ve started processing having a razor-teethed demon taskmaster who cannot be left alone for one second, lest she pull on my curtains or gnaw on my toes. But since my canine captor and I have come to an agreement that, if she wakes me up at 4:30, feed her and play with her, I shall put her back in her crate from 6-7ish to have time to write and/or get ready for work. Today, I chose this here writing business.

And while I normally don’t include a “ummm, this damned newsletter is just me so my bad if I miss a comma or twelve” disclaimer, I will note that I’ll likely end up sending this in a mad dash, so I apologize in advance for each and every egregious error.

TO THE INTERNET (sent in by a bunch of you, because you’ve continued to feed me that sweet, sweet content)

  • This here Missive is now and forever an Alex Wilhelm stan account, mmmkay? Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong might not be having fun at work, you guys (TechCrunch)

  • Any story that unites my fascination with the legal system with my friendship-ruining tendency to correct people’s grammar and punctuation (insert “this is why I’m single” joke) is a must-read in my book: Missing Apostrophe in Facebook Post Lands a Man in Defamation Court (The New York Times, h/t Mum and a few of you)

  • I will not be purchasing her book so as not to feed the reputation laundering financial ecosystem of Former Guy admin officials, but I must agree that getting out of the orbit of the orange one has parallels to getting out of a cult: Stephanie Grisham says she needed to be 'deprogrammed' after leaving the White House (Insider)

  • I don’t have an iPhone 13 but I do have a soul that loves baby animals, so read this pocket computer camera review: An iPhone 13 Pro Review For Piglets (BuzzFeed) But seriously, I have read this piece multiple times, it is that delightful.

  • And finally, imma just put this 2016 article right out there because I think a lot of you are dealing with it right now: Managing the Hidden Stress of Emotional Labor (HBR) 

Welp, gotta go, my alarm went off on the Echo in my bedroom and now the pint-sized furry terrorist is yelling at my robot butler. So that’s a thing I’m going to go deal with.

Drink that water, be kind to yourself, follow @OrcaTheSproodle on Instagram so I can fulfill my elder millennial destiny of being a pet influencer (5 years too late, but still!) 

Xoxo Amy

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