Month: April 2010
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filtered
I read in one of those handyman magazines that you can recycle the filters in the exhaust hood over your stove top by shoving them in the dish washer. What a great idea! I even felt just a bit ashamed I hadn’t thought of it myself. Turns out it’s a stupid idea. Make that: It’s… Read.
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getting ready
I’ve spent more than a couple of hours updating my resume today. I love to write, but updating a resume is only slightly less agonizing than clawing out my eyes with my own fingernails. I don’t know why it should be like that, but it is. I’d guess it’s some sort of physical law and… Read.
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practice
I was practicing dance steps with My Darling B in the front room last night, which is quite a feat if you take in to account that our living room is about the same size as the bed of a pickup truck, and we can’t remember dance steps to save ourselves. Actually, our living room… Read.
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that was the day that was
On this misty, crappy, cold day we declined to make the usual weekly circuit of the farmer’s market, so instead My Darling B offered to take me to Plaka Taverna for brunch. Plaka used to be Cleveland’s Diner, one of our favorite places to get breakfast on a Sunday, and they still serve what they… Read.
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role play
After two days away from the office to attend a seminar that will give me the managerial toolbox I need to become a better supervisor, it’s back to the grindstone for one more day, huzzah! The seminar really was very good, in that I not only learned about things that will help me out, but… Read.
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a tall tale
We took positions at our flip charts and prepared for the first round of participatory exercises at this morning’s leadership seminar. “To let you know when it’s time to change positions, I will make a loud noise,” our instructor, Mary Kate, advised us. Chuckles all around the room. She grinned at us. “It will be… Read.
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WFF final day
Our first film of the day was a short documentary, Growing In Knowing: The Gateway to Midvale Garden. Scrap metal artist Erika Koivunen gets the kids of the Midvale Elementary School to bring her boxes of scrap metal, and she shows them how she makes a garden gateway out of it. I would have given… Read.
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adventures in unemployment
Happy Monday! My job’s been eliminated! How’s your day been? Not sure what to add to that. Most people have been knocked around one way or another by our current economic climate change, so it’s not like you haven’t heard this one before, or that it’s much of a surprise, really. And I’m fortunate, sort… Read.
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WFF day four
They gave us ballots we could use to rate each film we saw, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best ratings we could give. I gave films a three if I thought they were merely average, four if I would have recommended them, two if I would not have recommended them. I saved… Read.
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WFF day three
Last Train Home told the incredible story of migrant workers in China who have left their farming communities to find jobs making exportable products in urban factories. Every year, 130 million of them travel home to visit their families and celebrate the Chinese new year. The scenes of thousands of travelers stampeding through the gates… Read.
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