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Me, Defined in one photo.

Definitely.

Thanks to Sarah Morgan for the photo.

The week of “Abstract Busy-ness”

First person who knows what the line “Abstract business” is from gets a HARO t-shirt.
Sitting outside the Huntington, LI Hilton, waiting to speak at the Long Island Public Relations Professionals breakfast this morning. “Breakfast” and “Driving to Long Island for” should never, ever be in the same sentence.
So this afternoon is the HARO “How to […]

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What the hell?! I thought Facebook lifted the cap?

Apparently, Facebook has not lifted the 5,000 friend cap, despite articles to the contrary. Damn it!
Well… I guess… Just hang out until they do? It’s not that I don’t want to be friends with you.

And before y’all start with the definition of a “friend,” or “why would anyone want 5,000 friends,” etc., know that I […]

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“Why Don’t You Do Some Work?”

Gotta tell ya… I’m getting pretty tired of hearing that.
Was having a conversation the other day with someone via IM. She asked me where I was, and I told her I was talking from the lobby of the W hotel in Times Square, waiting to have a drink with someone who runs a marketing firm.
“The […]

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Bad Blogger I am.

At least six times in the past week, I’ve said (either to myself, or to a room full of people in perfect ADD fashion in the middle of a sentence about something totally different,) “Oh, that would so totally make a great blog post!” and then done absolutely nothing with it.
I’ve no one to blame […]

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Sometimes You Gets The Bear…

And sometimes the bear gets you.
The 2008 Nautica NYC Triathlon is over, capping a ridiculously busy, and ultimately frustrating weekend for me. Sadly, it didn’t go even remotely the way I wanted it to, resulting in my not participating in the Tri at all, but picking my bike up and walking it home at 5am […]

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Today’s fun object lesson…

Today’s object lesson of the day, brought to you by the fact that after it happened, it made me giggle. And I swear it happened, I’m not being all Dale Carnegie on you. Was walking back from a lunch meeting, and came across a curb with a giant puddle. (corner of 11th and 48th.) Standing […]

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