Was up at 6am on Saturday to prep for the franchise convention. Headed down to the hotel and worked with our tech guys to synch up my asshatted computer with the projector so my PowerPoint presentation displayed correctly. Ran through a mock-up of the presentation with the slide transitions, then attended the general session, presented […]
… than freaking out about the recovery of a completely fucked corrupted file at eleven o’clock at night when you have to be up at 6am the next day to present four hours worth of breakout sessions at a franchise convention. Yuuuuummmmmmmmmmmy.
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I was waiting for her to publicly post it first…. so now it’s really true! For those that didn’t read it in the locked LJ post, me and God’s War and all the rest are now being represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary agency. I’m uber-super-thrilled about this. She was my first
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But waaaaaaaaaaaait a minute… I tied with the Serenity crew and Deep Space Nine? Oh well. B5 isn’t so bad when the actors pretend to act and the monologuing is kept to a minimum. But really: I’d prefer the Serenity graphic. Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)created with QuizFarm.com You scored
We had a big meeting today at work because our health benefits will change Nov. 1st. I’d known this was coming since I signed with the company, so I was nervous and busy doing math and looking up tiered drugs and in-network providers and going through all the paperwork and thinking, wait a minute, this
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Seriously, all I want to do right now is sleep. We’ve got a franchisee convention coming up this weekend and we are crazy-busy putting together tons of materials and presentations and slides for that, and I’ve got a ton of novel writing work to get done when work hours end. So I’m off to Chipotle
It’s like being 17 again, only with professional success, self-esteem, and no curfew. But I really need to catch up on my sleep. And get a lot of fucking writing done. And… but first: Sleep.
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“In the 60’s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.”
Over 90% of women of childbearing age use some sort of contraception method. I quickly became aware that my male gender has allowed me to pass through medical school (and life!) totally ignorant of all of this. My patients came in using almost everything–condoms, the pill, the patch, Nuvaring, Depo–and I was left perplexed. What
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Here’s a look at an all-girl public elementary school in New York. I’m not a huge fan of sex-segregated schools, but watching what they do here – naming the classrooms after women of achievement, having women speakers who are doctors, lawyers, football players; promoting a girls-are-women-of-achievement atmosphere – makes for a good look at how