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August 7, 2008

Wednesday night miscellany

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The past few weeks at work have been a bit crazy. The good news is, only one more day and I’m done in St. Louis! I’ve enjoyed it here, but I’ve been working long hours (nights, weekends, you name it – I even put in some hours in San Fran doing work). The project is going into a really relaxed phase, so I’m being dropped off the project starting Monday, and I may return to it in a few weeks, but that’s yet to be determined. In the meantime, I’m heading back to New York tomorrow and will be there …

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July 16, 2008

Meet me in St. Louis!

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I’m finishing up my project in Boston today. When I came into work this morning, I didn’t have anywhere to go after this. My plan was to head back to New York to hang out for the week and hopefully get to spend a good amount of time with the boy (still haven’t come up with a name for him yet) before he goes ice climbing in Seattle next weekend (see, he’s crazy too – we’re a great match!). However, instead of taking a week of time to sit around and relax and whatnot… I’m now heading off to St. …

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June 27, 2008

Last free marathon trip for a while… or is it?

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I got word on Wednesday that I’ll probably be finishing up on the Boston project around July 14. Bye-bye alternate travel benefits was my first thought. While travel is usually a way of life for consultants, I’m based in the New York office, and there are so many projects in the New York/New Jersey area that it’s more frequent for NYC practitioners to “stay local.” Unfortunately, “local” doesn’t always mean an easy commute. In October, I was on a “local” project where I worked 8 AM to 11 PM… and then had a 1.5 hour commute each way to get …

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June 25, 2008

Why I can’t bring healthy stuff to work

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This week my hotel is next to a Trader Joe’s, so on Monday night, I went there and stocked up on healthy foods. Bran muffins, cereal, almond milk, some apples and oranges, etc. It was all in a grocery bag, and the only thing I ate was one muffin – everything else was brand new, unopened. And the muffin container was closed securely, and at the bottom of the bag, so it wouldn’t even be clear that it wasn’t new. We’re in a different team room this week, and there is barely desk space enough for our computers, let alone …

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June 20, 2008

What I learned from the videos in my company’s ethics training class this morning

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1. If you are white, you are ignorant and/or a bad person. You will try to force others to act unethically and/or illegally because your directives come from a colleague who belongs to the same country club as you. 2. If you are Asian or Indian, you always try to act with integrity, but are often suppressed by your white manager and forced to do the wrong thing. You argue with stilted and poorly scripted speech. “I am not sure if I am comfortable with such a decision, and I would like to express my concerns. I do not think …

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