Oh lord. I got selected to be one of the "cross section of staff" meeting with the visiting committee. I don't know why I volunteered (stupidity) in the first place. COuld be a bad idea all around....

Okay, here's the plan: I'll shoot winter in the gut. You poison it. Now we just need a third for the defenestration...

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

You privledged Americans. I can't be assured of reasonable weather until May.

Run, Mr. Cold Miser, run!

The administration seems to be waving shiny things around again....

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Samantha von Sperling, a New York-based image consultant whose customers include politicians, was skeptical. She admires Rice, but finds this all to be a bit "Oprah-esque."

"It just strikes me as, what's the point?" she said. "Why do I need to see her in Spandex? It has nothing to do with the quality of her mind. And if she were a man, they wouldn't have asked her to do the story."

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For a Bush administration that tries so hard to stay on message, this one is clear: If Rice makes time for exercise as one of the busiest people in the world, so can most anyone.

Huh, and I would have thought the message was "LOOK! A BABY WOLF!"

You privledged Americans. I can't be assured of reasonable weather until May.

Neither can we, at least in the northeast. April = cruelest month.

If Rice makes time for exercise as one of the busiest people in the world, so can most anyone.

Oh, sure, the fact that she manages to fit it in around her two jobs, hour-each-way commute on the city bus, picking the kids up at daycare, making Kraft Dinner, helping with homework, doing the laundry, and getting set to head back out to the bus stop by 7 the next morning after doing all of the above in reverse...amazing she still makes it to the gym she can't afford anyway, not without doing without field-trip fees, birthday presents, heat, etc...

Oh, wait, that's not her. Nevermind.

Jesse - stop with the negativity. Sue needs to move here and you are ot helping with the marketing.

Thursdays are my crazy day and for somereason today is crazy for everyone else too - lots of tension in the office.

Sue, I stole your line for my tag! Hope that's okay.

As aurelia said, I live and work about 10 minutes south of the Wisconsin border.

Whew, Kalshane. At least your nightmare CIO is not my former nightmare. I dreamt last night that it was him, and I felt so guilty for having exported my problems to another Buffista. (Like I had anything to do with his ouster here.) Here's hoping your CIO keeps up the short-timer MO.

It's eerie how alike it was. Thanks for setting my mind at ease, K. ::shivers::

ION, it's gotten colder here, but no flakage. Well, okay, but I mean weather-wise.

Off to smoke a cig and tell my workmate about the duplicate CIOs.