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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 23, 2011

A sick start to the week

career, health and fitness, travel / 4 Comments

After taking the day off Thursday and then spending Friday working from bed, you would think that I would be better. In fact, on Friday I felt good enough to do a bit of yoga at night. I didn’t really work up a crazy sweat like I do with regular Insanity, but I did get a light sheen that felt great – like I was sweating the toxins right out of me. I stayed in on Friday night, since I needed to be up at 6am on Saturday, but didn’t get much sleep due to all my stressing. Work, marathons, …

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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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May 19, 2011

Oh what a day

career, health and fitness / 3 Comments

Monday was crazy busy again – maybe not quite as bad as last week, but still swamped. To make things worse, on Sunday night I started coming down with a sore throat. It’s been getting progressively worse as the week goes on, until today my boss made the decision to send me home and have me work from there. I’m hoping the pace of work will be a little slower if I’m lying in bed working instead of having to present to some pretty senior clients… but we shall see. Perhaps I can feign laryngitis so that I don’t have …

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