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Jennifer Dziura writes life coaching advice every Tuesday here on TheGloss, and career coaching advice Fridays on TheGrindstone.
Last week, Bullish (see Bullish Life: 3 Romantic Mistakes That Young Women Make That Cause Weeping Among The Angels And Kittens) addressed the romantic plight of reader “Betsy Ross” — a plight so sad that lady-kittens wept tragic rainbow tears that themselves contained tiny kittens, also weeping.
Also recently, Jen addressed a quick reader question in Bullish Life: Get Your Back-to-School Game On (Even If You’re Not in School) about maintaining high energy.
A few weeks before, reader “Daria” (Bullish Life: Getting Bullish in Practice as Well as in Theory) wrote in to say that she had “defined her values” (as recommended in Bullish Life: Making Better Decisions) but still felt that she was failing at being, well … bullish. “I have played it safe my whole life, I am a virgin, I don’t drive, I can’t even ride a bike,” she wrote. (Check out Jen’s advice here).
On The Grindstone, where Jennifer writes career advice on Fridays, Bullish has addressed questions about: making money as a circus photographer (see Madeleine Albright), being sexually harassed on the job (see Lucretia Mott), doing business with friends (see Lisa Simpson), when to quit your job to launch a company (see Christine de Pizan), and advice for those still in college (see Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa of Austria).
Would you like to join the pantheon of historically- and pop-culturally-renamed ladies with burning questions?
Send us your life, academic, man, and money problems, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free!
The address: bullish@thegloss.com
You can also check out an archive of Bullish and Bullish Life columns right here.
Zeus was such a rapist! Seriously, wtf Greek mythology?
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Hi Jinx,
In finance, a “bullish” or “bull” market is upward-trending (a “bear” market is the opposite):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend
Also, I live on Wall Street, near the famous bull:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Bull
…and in an early column I wrote about how tourists often take pictures near the bull’s balls. (I regularly use the word “ballsy,” with the note that I think it’s hilarious that men have ascribed their power to such a delicate and idiosyncratic body part.)
So, “bullish” can mean aggressive or upward-moving, but is also meant a bit cheekily.
Sincerely,
Jen
Can I get more information on that painting? Title/Artist?
The title is the Rape of Europa (Rape used in the original definition of “to take away”) and the Artist is Noel-Nicolas Coypel (Thank you art history degree…)
The only question I have is this: what does “bullish” mean?