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August 2, 2011

Pa-Pa-Pa-Poker Face

career / 6 Comments

Today’s hilarious tale from the trenches: My client has an intern who isn’t doing anything related to my job, so I haven’t worked with him yet. The intern and I were both in a meeting at 11am, and we got there early, so I asked him about what he was working on. He told me that the CMO asked him to put together an Excel sheet with some calculations. In fairness, it’s actually a somewhat complicated model he needs to build with assumptions, like… if we get a certain % supply from this source and a certain % supply from …

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July 27, 2011

Adjusting and Getting a Fresh Start

career, diet, health and fitness / 7 Comments

This week has been flying by! I’m headed back to NYC tonight because I have a company event to attend tomorrow. While I still will be working tomorrow and Friday, my time at the client was cut super short – first because I couldn’t find a flight to get me to the office before lunchtime on Monday, and then because I have to fly out this afternoon. To further exacerbate the problem, my client was at a different location Monday and Tuesday, so I really need to fit a week’s worth of questions/iterations with them into just 8 hours before …

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May 26, 2011

I’m a stressball

career, goal setting, travel / 11 Comments

So you’ve probably noticed I haven’t been blogging much lately. My then-boyfriend used to tease me about being a “stressball” (meaning, “ball of stress,” not “stress-relieving device”) because I wear my heart on my sleeve and you can always see it very apparently when I’m stressed… and that is the case now. I’m super stressed about: -My health. While I was legit sick last week, I still have chest congestion this week, and I can’t tell if I’m sick or if I’ve suddenly developed a horrendous case of allergies (never had allergies before). I want to try to see a …

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May 19, 2011

Guilty as charged

career, health and fitness / 7 Comments

I woke up this morning feeling awful. In my tiny apartment, the bathroom is about 10 feet from my bed… and yet just lurching into there was exhausting. I wasn’t sick to my stomach or throwing up, but I was more stuffed up than ever, my throat was so hoarse that I could barely croak out a sentence, and I was dizzy as all get out. I couldn’t even imagine looking at my laptop, let alone spend all day working away on it. So I called my boss and told him I was taking a sick day. All sounds pretty …

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February 24, 2011

Typical day in the life of a consultant

career, travel / 2 Comments

I realized this morning that it doesn’t feel like the week really started until I’ve been on a plane. Yes, for all my complaints about delayed flights and how hard the travel lifestyle can be, I missed being up in the air. Fortunately, this morning I headed back to LaGuardia and was welcomed back by the TSA with open arms (and groping hands). I guess I’m just not content without my Monday morning patdown! Today I had training all day, which was capped off with a delightful happy hour at our hotel. Delightful in large part because it was held …

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