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April 2007
Goal setting
Monday, 30 April 2007 8:49 P GMT-06
Oy.Tomorrow morning is my first date. With a person trainer. I'm going to allow someone to make me exercise. And the question asked by my team at work is, "What are your goals?"GOALS? Goal? I don't need
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A rabbi and a rapper walk into a suite...
Monday, 30 April 2007 4:27 P GMT-06
I mentioned my friend Pinny last night. He's an ordained rabbi and the EVP of marketing at Ice.com. Oh and he's one of the founders of the company too. We met at the WOMMA conference last year and have stayed in touch.
Jblogger dinner.
Sunday, 29 April 2007 9:42 P GMT-06
I just walked in the door from my first Chicago Jewish Blogger Dinner. Not just my first, but the first I know of. And since I organized it, I can safely say the first. The impetus for the dinner was to welcome a woman that I
Great Cure
Saturday, 28 April 2007 11:49 P GMT-06
Apparently all I needed was 1. a reason to celebrate 2. some sunshine 3. two great guest lecturers 4. more sunshine 5. beef and 6. salsa dancing.I left work yesterday in a foul mood. I cried at my desk, spun my wheels and left in a
Battle of the ads
Saturday, 28 April 2007 4:46 P GMT-06
After I quit Jdate, I switched to Craigslist. Or returned to Craigslist. Whatever. I posted an ad that I'd used before and got some good responses. Even scheduled one non-date, but that fell through (with an appropriate window o
A funny warning
Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:36 P GMT-06
"Be careful, she'll write about you on her blog."Who said that this morning? A tech savvy friend? A fellow blogger? A reader? None of the above. It was my rabbi warning a group of mohels in training. We wer
Overwhelmed and disappointed.
Friday, 27 April 2007 3:51 P GMT-06
In the grand scheme of things, my life is still quite good. In the micro scheme of things, I'm feeling overwhelmed and disappointed. Nothing I really want to blog about, but the overwhelmedness and disappointedness make me not want to
J-blogger dinner? Sunday night?
Thursday, 26 April 2007 2:43 P GMT-06
Therapy Doc? David? Adam? Adam? Amy? Little Frumhouse? Local PresenTense Writers? Local Accidentally Jewish readers?A fellow PresenTense writer is moving to Chicago and we are talking about getting dinner on Sunday night.
Failure and Success
Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:01 A GMT-06
UPDATE: If you are reading this through RSS, it is a video... you'll have to click through to view it.
Geek Dinner
Thursday, 26 April 2007 9:58 A GMT-06
Tonight was our second geek dinner. Code name for PR practitioners that blog and their friends. It was me, Phil Gomes , Leticia , Eric Tatro , Dubi and Tom (whose last name escapes me, even though he told me twice.) Chris , who org
Pogues and Cadillac?
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 8:31 P GMT-06
After recovering from hearing the Violent Femmes in a Wendy's Commercial, I now have to get used to the Pogues in a Cadillac commercial. The Pogues and Cadillac?
Quilting Bee Metaphor
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 8:27 P GMT-06
At work I try to find metaphors to describe the internet. Sometimes I find analogies.
I wear my blog on my sleeve.
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 9:41 P GMT-06
I'm a blogger. It is very much a part of my identity. I wear it on my sleeve and with it all of my emotions. I have a terrible poker face.In work situations, I always introduce myself as a blogger and that I have kept a personal
Israel as fetish (and is my email working?)
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 9:23 P GMT-06
Ever have those days where you want to shake your email account? Maybe twist the dials or move the rabbit ears. "Hello, is this thing on?" I feel like some emails that I think I sent didn't go, cause I have repsonses t
Exploring Judaism, one book at a time.
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:50 P GMT-06
It's that time of the month. No, not that time of the month, but the time when the new Shebrew hits the shelves. Er... airwaves. No, um, the internets.This issue was all books and I wrote about exploring Judaism and building my
High ROI Fundraising
Sunday, 22 April 2007 4:01 P GMT-06
Dear readers,Among you, there are members of synagogues, churches, PTAs, sororities, and non-profits. What are the best fundraisers your organization does? What are high return for the investment of time?Live Auctions? Silent Auctions? Fa
Apologize to the Jewish People
Sunday, 22 April 2007 1:54 P GMT-06
"In 1987, I attended a bar mitzvah in Manhattan while wearing white gabardine pants, white patent-leather slippers, a blue blazer with gold buttons, and a yachting cap. I would like to apologize to the Jewish peo
Anti-social social
Sunday, 22 April 2007 8:13 A GMT-06
I had every intention of going out last night. Leaving my condo, leaving the neighborhood, seeing new people. But it simpky didn't happen. Sometimes after a day alone, I am ready to get out in the world. But this was total
Nice shabbat.
Saturday, 21 April 2007 3:48 P GMT-06
I got up early this morning. Can't help it anymore, because around seven or so my lower back starts hurting so much that I can't stay in bed. I managed to laze in bed until 8:30 or so and then I got up and went to get coffee.
Also remember these names.
Friday, 20 April 2007 2:46 P GMT-06
Judaism has the tradition of remembering the anniversaries of deaths, so we should also remember the names of those killed in Colorado in 1999. Of course I'm speaking of Columbine. Their memories, and the memoreies of those laid to re
Remember the names.
Thursday, 19 April 2007 9:08 P GMT-06
Because I agree with Robert Avrech on this one. We should remember the names of the victims and not turn murderers into celebrities. A list of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech: - Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, sophomore f
Counting words.
Thursday, 19 April 2007 8:52 P GMT-06
I'm stubbornly working on a project for work. Stubbornly, because I want to do it by myself and get all the credit. I can admit it, sometimes I want to be the winner. Tonight I did all the drawings for it. Color pencils, s
Hatching a plan.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 8:20 P GMT-06
I treated myself to thai tonight. Like sat in the restaurant and everything sort of treated. And while I was there, I hatched a plan. I wrote at the top of the page *The Plan and that is how you know I'm serious. It involv
Totally kick ass.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 9:37 A GMT-06
Just heard that a fellow congregant was also accepted to ROI120. For a small congregation (only 400 family units) with a teeny tiny 20/30 something crowd, it is pretty exciting that two of us are taking projects to Jerusalem this summer.
Words of wisdom from Tim Sanders
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 8:44 A GMT-06
Oh Tim Sanders, how I respect you. Because when I can't find the words, you often do.
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