February 2010
18 posts
Hockey night in Canada
No, I don’t mean the Olympics. Tonight, while Canada was playing Slovakia in a semi-final Olympic match, I was not at a pub or a friend’s place, in front of a TV watching the second-most crucial game in all of our country. Instead, I was at the local community arena watching our local college-level B-team, or maybe they are a C-team, or Division 2 or something like that. In other...
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My guy is Cheating on me with X-Box 360
Substitute X-Box 360 with gadget of choice: PSP, MacBook, iPhone….. you get the picture.
Engaging in the workplace
Talk about disengagement. David Zwinger, a speaker on the topic of Engagement, spoke at our institution yesterday as part of an in-service staff development day. He opened his keynote presentation with a haiku poem about being REALLY disengaged at the workplace:
I sit in my cubicle
Envying the dead
Only 2 hours to go
It was a good presentation and made me think about being really CONNECTED...
He lights up my days
Little scamp
He was in our bed at 6:30am beeping and bahhing, babbling away in contentment to be with his papa and mama after a night away in his room. I am bleary eyed at work, but very happy to be woken up in such a way.
Marc Jacobs Biscotti Smells Like… →
Karen writes:
Lemons. For serious! There’s also a hint of mint tea thrown into the top notes. Eventually it dries down to a white musk/violet/vanilla combo.
Apple smelled like a green apple Jolly Rancher, and Pomegranate like Pom juice.
What a delicious description of what is, I guess, a new perfume. Was waffling about whether it’s a room spray, but with the Marc Jacobs label,...
“This book is about poetry, tragedy, love and WordPress 2.7. In short, it is...”
– Amazon.com: Customer Reviews
This was a review of a technical book.
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
What is up on my office wall.
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The little things
Seriously, how many times in life does someone offer you meatballs unannounced?
Well, this is what happened today in my office. A colleague knocked on my door and brought me 2 small meatballs on a plate in one hand, and chocolate cake with raspberry filling in the other. Just because. No reason, didn’t ask for anything. She was just sharing some food from a gathering happening down the...
