Your current job is not forever. All things like this are networking opportunities, but some are better than ever. If this is a great networking opportunity that is worth considering. If this is a not a very good networking opportunity, that is also worth considering.
Jayne is a girl's name.
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Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2010 2:47:42 pm PDT #6711 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hil R. - Oct 26, 2010 2:50:02 pm PDT #6712 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
It's an OK networking opportunity, but the smaller conferences are better for that -- at the big ones, everyone's running around so much that there's not much time for really talking to anyone.
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2010 2:53:13 pm PDT #6713 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So then it is a matter of weighing the effort, vs. wish to hear the presentations? With opportunity cost vs. time and energy to attend smaller conferences in the future as a consideration?
WindSparrow - Oct 26, 2010 2:54:08 pm PDT #6714 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thanks Dana. That helped a lot.
Dana - Oct 26, 2010 3:33:29 pm PDT #6715 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
No problem. I'm glad my having lived through the hell that is fiscal year end helped.
They keep telling me it's supposed to slow down at work at some point. So far, they're big liars.
WindSparrow - Oct 26, 2010 4:11:02 pm PDT #6716 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So far, they're big liars.
Thppbbbbt! on them. I hope you get some time off or some other way to relax.
Would it help at all to hear that I just told my Tea Party-lovin' brother that since his sole criteria for a successful government is being able to operate in the black, then Clinton must have been his favorite President of this century. I willfully restrained myself from asking if he had seen fit to campaign for Hillary Clinton on the grounds that she might conceivably share her husband's passion for balanced budgets.
Polter-Cow - Oct 26, 2010 4:41:20 pm PDT #6717 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My mom finally pulled out the "If we were dead, you'd be at peace" card. I didn't even get a chance to pull out the "You make me want to kill myself just to get away from you" card!
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2010 4:43:14 pm PDT #6718 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You don't want to pull that card. Very easy for jokes like that to reinforce the part of your psyche that causes depression. Or make depression worse if you already have it.
Typo Boy - Oct 26, 2010 4:49:53 pm PDT #6719 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Tony Blair in running for bad sex award. Former prime minister's memoir nominated for prize dedicated to clumsy erotic scenes in fiction.
From The Guardian of course. And heh.
Calli - Oct 26, 2010 5:25:26 pm PDT #6720 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm glad you were able to talk to your mom after her accident, Barb. And congrats on the award!
I got together with amyth, smonster, and a couple of other friends to carve pumpkins tonight. [link]