About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Category Archives: way too personal
Somethings happening (50)
While I was in Switzerland, my friend Brigitte gave me a treatment. She is an osteopath and during the week I spent at her and her family’s house, she stuck many needles in my skin, three times in total. Don’t ask me what she treated exactly (I’m not even sure myself), but it has something [...]
Why did I stop? (14)
Sometimes I wish I was better at drawing. I often have ideas in my head that I ’see’ when I think about it, but can’t translate that into images so I can share it with others.
The other day I was reflecting on why I’m not that good at drawing and came to the conclusion [...]
Mindfulness and ACT (5)
Since 6 weeks I participate in a 9 week self-help course on how to live ‘the full life’. The course has been offered by the relatively new Psychology department at Twente University (based in my home town; where I got my degree from a different faculty) and they want to test the effectiveness of this [...]
Being introvert (3)
Today I came across an article about introverts in the workplace. The article says something about the preference in general for characteristics that come with extraverts, but that organizations should become more aware of the skills introverts can bring to work: analytic, observant, not judging immediately. Some other characteristics: introverts need more ’self-time’ to recover [...]
Taking what I do serious (2)
This week I’ve come to realize that a lot of the time I don’t take my work seriously. In the sense that I’m always playing down what I do. I have a hard time being convinced that what I do has value.
This realization hit me in the face and could easily knock me out if [...]
The story of my teeth
When I was eight years old I had a bicycle incident. It wasn’t spectacular. I was cycling a bit on the sidewalk when I made a manoeuvre which made my front wheel turn too far and block my forward motion full stop, resulting in me getting to know the non-plasticity of the pavement. The unlucky [...]
Now here’s something to watch
I’ve just finished watching all chapters of RiP: A remix manifesto. This is a brilliant documentary by Brett Gaylor about
issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
Here’s the intro, as an appetizer.
Watch all the other chapters online. With [...]
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Big plans for 2009
But before I’ll tell you about those plans, I thought I’d share with you that peer pressure took its toll early on in 2009. I got my first skiing lesson from a dear friend.
More about my plans to come!
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Fear of failure
In yesterday’s newspaper, an article was printed about the fear of failure. The author of a new book described some of the characteristics of people with a fear of failure:
- not being able to sleep after being critisized;
- physical complaints like headache and painful muscles of stress;
- going over things in their mind;
- imagine disaster [...]
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