Hey, team.

Dang, I'm keeping busy this week! Playing a little catch up after last week's tech festivities (and super successful #entrylevelboss breakfast event!). Coming back to zen, slowly but surely.

I'm also re-watching The O.C. right now, which is giving me a true inner sense of calm. Blame my California roots, I guess.

Anyway, I've been getting all kinds of emails from readers old and new, so I've decided to turn this week's note into a little Q&A. Here's a question I received on Monday...

Hey, friends.

Great news. It would seem that I'm forming a solid summertime habit of finding an outdoor patio, ordering a glass of wine, and spending happy hour writing this email. Ah, the sweet joy that is life-in-balance.

And speaking of this annual change in weather, we've made it halfway through the year. So I figure, now's a good time to catch you up (in listicle form) about what's going on in my day-to-day universe as of late.

Hey friend.

Writing to you from a sidewalk café on a very, very, very beautiful Berlin summer day. I'm drinking a weißweinshorle (that's half white wine, half sparkling water) and just wrapped up a wonderful #entrylevelboss meeting not too far from this here park:

I've been moving s-l-o-w this week. Transitioning out of my hectic travel schedule and into a big month of client work. Transitioning into the summer weather after wearing winter coats in Iceland. Fighting mental molasses the entire way, and I've been late to meet clients two days in a row.

Which is why I feel like a bit of a d*ck, actually. Because today's #entrylevelboss podcast episode is all about how it's cool to be casual, but not at the risk of being unprofessional. And the first rule of being professional is Do Not Be Late.

Hey friend.

I've been a little MIA the last few days, haven't I? If you follow me on the Snap (@alexashowtime), you'll know I spent the first half of this week wandering around the Icelandic countryside in a cape for my best friend's Viking-themed wedding...

...and now, after a series of (literal) traffic jams and (political) hiccups, I'm sitting in a hotel room in Northern England, collecting my thoughts in the middle of all this Brexit chaos. What a week, friends. What a week indeed!

Without going too much into it at all, I think we can all agree that 2016 is a pretty crazy, record-setting year so far. People want change. People are super bummed about The System.

Hey friend.

Utterly, utterly exhausted from last weekend's college reunion celebrations. Very glad I went and split open my heart to the joys of nostalgia, but lemme tell you: we simply cannot hack it like we could in 2011.

Have been inhaling a strict diet of green smoothies and sleep since landing back in Germany on Tuesday morning and am finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel as of this evening.

Me and my friends, five years later.

Anyways, I'm crazy backed up on emails due to reunion celebrations and jetlag. Meaning that this is as good a day as any to remind you all about...

The 5 Commandments of Not Being Annoying At Email