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Irresolute Year
Last year I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions. The year before that I made some non-resolutions. How’d I do with those, over the course of the last two years? Go to the theater and see some good...
View ArticleVery Sad News
This morning’s local news contained more of the same awful stuff: 10,000 layoffs at Boeing, 6,700 at Starbucks. This is in addition to last week’s 5,000 Microsoft employees and 5,000 Microsoft...
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Improving Mondays
Monday is painful on a number of counts – sleep deprivation, return to work mode with an overflowing inbox, the weekend’s catastrophes lying in wait, and regret for lost weekend opportunities. So how...
View ArticlePolitics and Communication
A friend (the wise and articulate proprietress of AK Minority Report) and I were talking last night about the subject of politics and communication in the workplace, and we decided we’d both write blog...
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Double First-Day Jitters
Tomorrow is the first working day of 2010, and I have double first-day jitters. First, I’m starting swimming with the brand new Poulsbo masters’ swim team. For those of you who don’t know, masters’...
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I’ve Resigned
No, not from my job! I’m still happily employed as one of many Alices in IT-wonderland. But this is tacked above my desk phone in the Seattle office.
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Geek Women & Image
Always interesting blog The Hathor Legacy (about female characters in fiction and media) sent me on an interesting surfing journey today via their “Links of Great Interest.” I ended up at the fabulous...
View ArticleBrilliance & Devotion
Yesterday I had a thought-provoking conversation with a friend, who will remain anonymous, about the concept of “brilliance”. I very much respect this person’s intellectual capabilities and...
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Daily Gratitude: the Day Job
Today, appropriately for a Monday, I’m grateful for my job, my employer and my colleagues. In this recession economy, of course, I’m very thankful to have a job at all. Many of my industry peers and...
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Daily Gratitude: Telecommuting
Today I’m working at home, curled up in my big burgundy recliner with my dog on my feet and a cat draped across the back. I can take the dog for a walk on my lunch hour, or take a lunchtime nap if I...
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