December 2010
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Days in new office = 2. lunch invitations = 1....
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2011
I am going to attempt a photo-a-day schedule. I ought to revive 365-reflections for this.
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I'm just gonna say it..
I don’t really see any reason I should ever go ice skating again.
The List:
Eclipse Imperial Stout from Fifty Fifty, Brrrbon from Widmer, Mission’s Hef, Gordon Biersch’s Marzen, Delirium Noel from Huyghe, Decadence Pomegranate Saison, Judgement Day from Lost Abbey, Monteiths Original Pale, Cinq Cents from Chimay, Saranac’s Vanilla Stout, Sierra Nevada 2009 Celebration Ale, Arrogant Bastard, Schaerbeekse Kriek from Drie Fonteinen, Sierra Nevada’s...
I love employee bios
Way more fun than the rest of my job. And I get emails like this:
Jessica !
I sound like a god !!
I’ll email a digital pic (hopefully something that will live up to this bio!!) on Monday.
Thank you so much for making me sound so great!
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Off to the office white elephant exchange!
I will report back regarding the booty :)
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“No.”
– Yes, Geoff Nunberg could’ve picked “vuvuzela” or “refudiate” as his word of the year, but instead he’s going with the timeless classic, “no.” Geoff gives an explanation of his logic regarding all the no’s that’ve happened this year and wraps it up this way:
“No” has a great power to bring people...
Mom looks A-OK!
I realize I’m slow to post about this here. She’s definitely not comfortable, but everything went well with her surgery. She has a brand new ACL!
Mom is in the OR
waiting, waiting..
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Having obsessed for an hour or so over how to get coffee to our customers this week without coffee filters, I’ve reached a solution. Now I think I deserve some distraction! Please ask me things?
Crisis of the Day
We have no coffee filters in the office. I used my lunch break to run out to the store, but this pot uses a weird industrial filter size, and grocery stores do not offer this.
I am the opposite of an expert on coffee pots, so I’m not even sure what the correct filter is labelled as. It isn’t a cone filter, and I don’t think it could use one although I’m not 100%...
Near future = crazy
I know I say this a lot. But the holiday season brings new heights to the levels of busy that are looming.
I start house-sitting for a friend’s mother tonight! A dog, a cat, a cockatiel and three chickens will be in my care for 8 whole days. Morning and evening duties. I’m really excited about this because a.) no one has ever asked me to house-sit before (other than my mom) b.) they...
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When I buy an item and then return it, the return feels like I am actually making money from the transaction.
This is not remotely true.
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I almost just fell asleep at my desk
I should have called in sick, but I didn’t want to do that twice in one week…
Lunch break might be a nap break instead
My skin is tingly
It’s not entirely unpleasant, but it’s a definite sign that I might have a slight fever going.
Or that the sudafed is finally kicking in.
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I feel like death today..
