January 2012
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February 2010
2 posts
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From La Segunda Semana… (It WILL get better)
Good news… Ambien is available without a prescription- AND it costs less than my insurance co-pay at home.
Also. It’s amazing how quickly my personal shopping values have gone out the window… After a sad surrender to the siren’s song of Wal-Mart, (impossibly enticing when uncomfortable in a 3rd world country), I was able to purchase a decent-ish two dollar and fifty cent pillow. So...
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Not a Traveler...
(It’s now been 3, but here are some thoughts from my first week in Guatemala… also check out www.DIWYY.com for upcoming posts on my Guatemalan adventures!)
I’m tired.
I mean like, I arrived exhausted. Because Spirit Airlines freaking SUUUUCKS. (Cheap flight yes, but a totally miserable experience.) And our legroom was frightfully reminiscent of those anti-meat protest photos with pictures of...
November 2009
1 post
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Just learning.
Don’t ask me to read James.
Don’t cite Lewis or Tolkien.
Don’t tell me to meditate on Proverbs 31.
Because I’ve heard it. I know it. Hell. I’ve got it memorized. And for now, it rings hollow.
Almost 2 years ago I sat with a friend outside of our office building- while we talked over cups of green tea. I so specifically remember him saying, “It’s...
July 2009
2 posts
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Not that my 20's were all that easy, but 30?!...
Inevitably approaching, with break-neck velocity, in just a couple months, is (deep breath)…
My big Three-Oh. My. GOSH.Howdidthirtygetheresofast???
I recognize that I am as helpless in preventing this impending next decade as I am in rebuking the soon-to-show sun damage that I no doubt incurred back when baby oil tanning was an acceptable practice.
I remember thinking “30” must be...
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My Perfect Excuse...
This poor, abandoned blog is (yet another) victim of my “paralysis by analysis”.
And it’s a problem.
My need for everything to be PERFECT, for the BEST choices to be made, and for “mistakes” to become as foreign as Swahili, has translated in to combined hours (Hooooours) of pontification: “which shoe”, “which earrings”, “which...
December 2008
1 post
Docstoc's superstar Nazar had some thoughts on...
First. Read this blog by So Cal Docstoc founder Jason Nazar.
Don’t skip the comments. Some pretty aggressive thoughts. And since my internet pet-peeve is people blogging on a comment section- I’m commenting on my blog. (Please take note folks!)
Also, to preemptively call myself out, I sometimes say “we” when talking about SV entrepreneurs; the way I do when discussing...
November 2008
2 posts
Graceless in Japan?
I have this horrifying vision playing on a loop in my head.
A flurried version of me. Lost in a foreign airport hustle, all sweaty and anxious, with hair in my face. Frantically fingering through my purse to grab at my glasses while fumbling the unnecessary sweater I have looped over my arm- the outerwear to which I’ve been clinging like a child and her blankey for some semblance of...
Blah, blah, blog...
Yes, I have run in the morning since the last post, however, a few more pressing events have been taking up metal real estate.
Layoffs, Halloween, and networking AND “what the hell do I do now” in particular.
More on that soon.
Just didn’t want to ignore my blog.
I’ve got a bit of a traffic jam happening right now- my thoughts are not being obedient to the zipper...
October 2008
2 posts
Why it doesn't totally suck to run outside in the...
So I know what you’re thinking… “No, no. It actually DOES suck to run outside in the morning.”
And, okay. That’s fair. But just hear me out.
I mean, really. Doing anything in the morning is pretty brutal. I have mornings when I think that the most heroic thing I could muster the energy to pull off is to NOT hit the snooze button a fourth time.
But now.
...
Remember that time I had a blog....?
Yeah. Me too.
Its always the same. Big idea. Lots of excitement. Lots of motivation… and then.
WACK!
I get jumped from behind- a la East Side San Jose.
The infamous band of bullies: Complacency, Busyness, Exhaustion, Stress, and Self-Doubt.
Admittedly, they’ve been kicking my ass. (Again.)
Rally caps on folks. I’ve been a little off my game, they’ve had me...
September 2008
1 post
Soda Stealing
Soda stealing. Random, I know.
BUT.
I have a friend who works for his family’s eatery. The kind where you order your lunch at the counter, take your number back to your table and fill up your own drink at the soda fountain.
The thing is- EVERYDAY he’s got a story of someone ordering water and then hittin’ up the lemon-aid or the Diet Coke. And there’s no profile...
August 2008
1 post
It is what it is....
I know there will be much richness in our lives- there will be blessings and failures beyond what we can imagine from the crossroads of almost 30.
I get it.
We’ll have hopes and dreams… and then they’ll change.
There will be heartbreak, babies, and long winters.
We’ll have jobs and friends and then lose some of both.
There will be good wine, speeding tickets,...
July 2008
3 posts
In a headful of everything, I got nothin'....
A Blog…. Why, again, did I think it was a good idea to have a blog?
Wistful ideas of grandeur clouded my head, I suppose.
Aaaaaand now. Winds of responsibility have quickly blown those clouds towards the coast of What-The-Hell-Was-I-Thinking.
2 weeks ago, I had big blogging plans. Huge. I was going to impart wisdom and witt and… whatever.
I decided that I have a bottle neck...
In The Beginning...
After a successful letter writing campaign* to Whole Foods, I’ve decided I should have a blog.
(*okay… it was 1 email. But still. Totally successful.)
Who knows? It’s likely a fleeting notion- like wanting a pony, or playing the drums…
But maybe not.
Maybe I’m the next Scobilizer?
(See that? Already posting links.)
So, here’s the (abridged)...
