Could adults gossiping in the office be more devious than the teenagers in “Gossip Girl”?

"Just because email allows us to fire out quick messages asking for things doesn’t necessarily mean this is a good practice, no matter our culture."

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Alex went back to school today.  FIRST GRADE!  Amazing how time flies, isn't it???  Evan also moved up to the 4's room at the daycare, which will be good for him, we think.  He's still talking using a baby voice, and this teacher really pushes personal responsibility, so we're hoping this will foster a greater sense of independence and care to ( Read more... )

Since I've posted about this lady previously, I thought this MoJo coverage of her was just too good to pass up.  With it, they posted a video:

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After reading an intriguing book review on the SciFi Wire (of all places), I am intent on getting this book and putting it on top of my pile of books to be read despite the fact that I hate it when people use Cyrillic characters in the place of English letters - especially incorrectly.  Oh well.


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This has been a crazy week for me at work.  It's been hard to keep up with the news, but in the spirit of "crazy" I thought I'd post some of my favorite snippets from the week, starting with some crazies in Congress.

One vile crazy comment I heard this week was from Virginia Foxx (NC) who stated that Matthew Shepard was not killed because he was gay ( Read more... )

My boys, like almost all kids out there, love cartoons.  Sadly, but not unlike other kids, hey'll watch even the bad stuff.  This means that John and I are becoming aficionados of all of the cartoons they can and want to watch.  I decided to post and pass along that knowledge, for good or bad, so others would know the good, the bad and the truly ( Read more... )

So, I did a couple Word Clouds over lunch today for the fun of it.  Wordle is a pretty cool tool.  Check it out.

To go with the one I did for this journal in my previous post, I added my resume's Word Cloud.  I wonder what this says about me?!?!  Analysis anyone?

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