Category Archives: Nine-to-Five

Like if the kids from “Big” were news anchors…

This is just incredible.  Hey Kallyn, last month we learned the Thriller Dance.  Maybe next month we could take it up a notch with this choreography?

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Graduate Students are the Worst

Blogging is sort of natural for me. I’m a very open person and a natural over-sharer. When I have a hangnail, everyone in my office knows about it. I update Facebook and Twitter every time something happens to me that … Continue reading

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Indecent Exposure

Today’s guest blogger is my friend Anne (names have been changed to protect the innocent).  She sent me an absolutely hilarious email the other day with a story from work, so I asked her to tell it to the world, … Continue reading

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Why I Hate Moving

Once, when I was applying for a job in college, the team of people interviewing me asked what my organizational style was. At the time, I didn’t realize they were looking for a general overview and not a detailed description … Continue reading

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Winds of Change

It seems counter intuitive, but it’s easier to blog when there aren’t any big things going on in your life. At least that’s been true for me. When life is normal, I can write about the new Kelly Clarkson album … Continue reading

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Letting Go

Today someone I work closely with was “let go.” This has happened to me before. At my last job, one of my closest coworkers and friends was fired about six months after I started working there. But as with most … Continue reading

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Workin’ Hard for the Money

I haven’t talked about work much recently… Partly because whatever you put on the internet can be read by anyone, and partly because I try not to be a blog-downer. But today is a little bit different. Today I finally … Continue reading

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A New Year…

… A Few New Goals. 1. Be on time for work. Like, 8 o’clock instead of 8:10 or 8:15… (I gave myself this week as a freebie, since getting in the habit of actually waking up when your alarm goes … Continue reading

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Year in Review

I’m copying Blythe, who’s copying Linda‘s reflective questionnaire. I’m thinking I’ll do this every year like she does. Any suggestions for questions I should add? 1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Wow, pretty much … Continue reading

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Absolutely nothing to do with Barack Obama.

When I started this blog, I really didn’t intend it to include so many political posts, otherwise I would have named it something much more accurate and descriptive. But it turns out that politics are what’s been on my mind … Continue reading

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