This week’s theme was work, described as “work work work” in the instructions. I haven’t had a great career in being employed. I’ve applied to four separate opportunities and only gotten a job from one, and even then the job was only intended to last two weeks. Instead, I chose to interpret work as effort. I’ve owned a skateboard since middle school, possibly 6th grade but I’m not certain. When I first got it, I was mortified whenever I tried to ride it and hadn’t touched it much after the first year of ownership. Recently, I’ve picked it back up and gone for almost daily rides and practice sessions to work towards two new goals. Learn to ollie and shove it. I’ve achieved neither but that is what I’m working on. This work involves no paychecks and most payment I’ve received thus far came in the form of bruises from transactions with the asphalt and concrete.