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July 16, 2008

Meet me in St. Louis!

career, travel / 12 Comments

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?

career, running, travel / 8 Comments

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 18, 2008

Getting back on track

career, diet, health and fitness, running, travel / 15 Comments

Lately I’ve been reading this awesome book, The Wall Street Diet. I saw it featured somewhere online, and even though it was a marketing pitch and not an unbiased review, I was still intrigued. The author, Heather Bauer, promised to understand the challenges of the executive lifestyle: constantly being offered delicious food that you could never afford if it weren’t free, cocktail parties where you munch on hors d’oeuvres for hours but then still feel the need to eat dinner later, client dinners at steakhouses where you get looked at like you have two heads if you try to order …

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June 11, 2008

Oops

career / 14 Comments

You’ve got to love when you IM someone from your company at 6:30 AM, thinking they’re up for some chat, and you share a few personal things in your IM. Then they reply with, “I’m actually in a client meeting right now and my laptop is being projected… we’ll talk later.” (That has nothing to do with either drinking or fitness, but I still wanted to share.)

April 7, 2008

Sun poisoning can be fatal

career, health and fitness, travel / 12 Comments

I found and called a dermatologist in Boston to schedule an appointment. They took all my info to sign me up as a new patient, and then told me I could come in next Friday. I asked if they had anything sooner, and they asked what my symptoms were. When I told them, their response was: “You need to go to the emergency room. NOW.” It turns out sun poisoning can be fatal, and that my symptoms are indicative of some bad sun poisoning. So I chose a hospital on some semi-random recommendations. Fortunately, it happened to be less than …

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