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August 2007
Happy Blog Day!
Friday, 31 August 2007 11:27 A GMT-06
I nearly forgot, but today is the 3rd Annual International Blog Day! What are the rules?BlogDay posting instructions:Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007 Wr
I'm alive
Thursday, 30 August 2007 7:55 A GMT-06
Just not inspired to write much. Sorry if you thought I fell into a giant hole, I did not. Promise.In other news, I was accepted to the Algonkian Writer's Workshop. Huzzah! Apparently I'll be writing a novel this fall in between massive
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In which I admit, I started a lifestream.
Monday, 27 August 2007 10:19 P GMT-06
Oh for pete's sake... when you are on a team with Steve Rubel , you try out a lot of social media stuff... Not that he lets me call is social media when we're in the same room together... whatever, we are usually on the phone. I'd been wo
The Winningest Person
Sunday, 26 August 2007 11:13 A GMT-06
Last night I started to tell friends about the writing retreat and my friend Steve said, "How can you be surprised, you are the winningest person we know! Anytime something like this comes up, you get it. You are, seriously, the winningest
And so it begins.... (fiction)
Saturday, 25 August 2007 10:29 A GMT-06
He sat in a cafe in Rome, moments from the last week looping in his mind. Laughing at dinner in Rome the night before. Racing to the airport the day before. Fighting about the trip the week before. Heaviness weighed on him.&nb
Thank you, thank you.
Saturday, 25 August 2007 9:46 A GMT-06
I got quite an avalanche of comments, twitters and emails, congratulating me on my grant. If you missed it, I've been granted an extra five days vacation and $1000 to go on a writing retreat. Yes! I get to go and write for a whole wee
Holy Moly!
Thursday, 23 August 2007 7:36 P GMT-06
Today was the summer meeting. During the summer meeting, 6 Edelman Escapes are awarded. An Edelman Escape is an extra week's vacation and $1000 towards a dream. It is awarded based applications. I applied at the sort of la
Friday night or Saturday afternoon
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 3:50 P GMT-06
Not sure what you are doing this weekend, but I know what you SHOULD be doing this weekend. My friend Dubi, in addition to being my emotional support when I go to the Apple store, is a film maker. And he is part of a film festival this we
Social Media as Insurance or Why Blogging isn't Dead.
Monday, 20 August 2007 10:34 P GMT-06
All sorts of theories about the death of blogging or the non-death of blogging, but I think I'm here to sa it isn't dead. Not for any of the reasons that my esteemed colleagues have said, but for something more simple.What if Social Me
They deserve a post all their own.
Monday, 20 August 2007 8:09 P GMT-06
I deleted the link in the last post, b/c I think joy should be joy.Best proposal in Chicago that I've ever heard tell. Raises the bar.
This...
Monday, 20 August 2007 7:59 P GMT-06
I was just writing a post about the most romantic proposal ever.Then the phone rang and it was a friend asking if I was okay. Erm, yeah. I'm fucking around on the internet and watching romantic proposals. "Cause neighbor is
Those days when I hosted teas.
Sunday, 19 August 2007 9:01 P GMT-06
I've been retelling and remembering my Colorado days a lot lately. Yesterday it was about my boys, the 150 male freshmen that made up Camp-Snyder when I was the Residence Director. Yep. Of the seven people who were residence dir
I finally scanned them.
Sunday, 19 August 2007 11:55 A GMT-06
You are all sick of the story , but I finally scanned the cards.
Swirling thoughts on a rainy Sunday.
Sunday, 19 August 2007 11:50 A GMT-06
1. I felt the same way about London.2. This morning walking home from the drugstore, I passed under the train. Two men were drinking beers and staying out of the rain. One said to me, "You are a beautiful queen. If I had
Using RSS?
Friday, 17 August 2007 11:09 P GMT-06
After a complaint from a friend that my feed wasn't working in her RSS reader, I got super vain. (Make sure that you pronounce super "Soo pah!" I don't know why, but I feel like this needs to be about my soopah vanity.)I got o
How do you know all this stuff?
Friday, 17 August 2007 10:43 P GMT-06
Tonight I was belting the closing song at shabbat services. Why not? I'd been pretty half hearted with the prayers tonight and pretty unfocused the whole night. But the song moved me and I know the words. A friend sitting two ro
The entire email from my mom in which she addresses my concerns about interfaith dating.
Friday, 17 August 2007 9:49 A GMT-06
"I'm not jewish either, but you still love me!"
Proud to help.
Thursday, 16 August 2007 2:55 P GMT-06
When I got back from ROI120, I found out that Edelman had been hired by OneVoice. When the OneVoice team went looking for someone at Edelman who knew something about the Jewish Blogosphere, all fingers pointed to me.Like when I worked with The
Qualifying the qualified yes.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 10:06 P GMT-06
Wow. No, really, wow. Thanks for the emails and phone calls and for stopping by my desk. I really didn't expect anyone to read so far into the last post, so thanks for reading it. Sorry for the mystery and the vaguer
A qualified yes.
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:05 P GMT-06
I designated July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004 as the Year of No Decisions. Why? I felt like I was trying to hard to shove my life into some plan and it simply wasn't happening. Why couldn't I make a career of study abroad admi
Contempt with Robert Avrech
Monday, 13 August 2007 12:09 P GMT-06
I agree with the young man in the story, How I Married Karen is one of the best things about Seraphic Secret. But I also agree with Robert on his advice to the young man in this post: Contempt.
Stumble by Natasha Bedingfield
Sunday, 12 August 2007 1:54 P GMT-06
A friend bought this CD last summer and I would put this song on repeat every time we were in the car. Now that I've got my iTunes sorted out, this was the first album I bought. Enjoy. I'm not the kind of girl you bring to motherI&
Meta life
Sunday, 12 August 2007 10:32 A GMT-06
In addition to giving me the final speech that convinced me to get a MacBook yesterday, my friend Lorraine also lent me a book called The Five Things I Can't Live Without. I got about three chapters into it last night and it was eerily fami
A new machine, a new life.
Saturday, 11 August 2007 12:04 P GMT-06
Occasionally I find that my life can be reduced to a clip from a John Cusack. Today it is from "Say Anything " where Diane Court is explaining to her father why she had sex with Lloyd Dobler. I can't find the exact quote , a
Silos?
Saturday, 11 August 2007 10:32 A GMT-06
This morning I decided to start two more blogs. Don't ask me why yet and don't ask for the links. Not that they will be hard to find. I just thought that I needed to silo off some of my topics instead of having them all here
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