In addition t0 my outstanding work ethic and exemplary PR skills, I was known at Racepoint Group for having a rather… how shall we put it… colorful desk… with an eclectic collection of tchotchkes, photos and miscellaneous paraphernalia. So needless to say, packing up my desk this week (yes, it did take all week) was one of the more bittersweet parts about leaving.
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Tagged: tchotchkes, work
As my time winds down at my current job I’ve had some time to look around and observe what I’ll miss about working here. Today while I was in the kitchen I noticed the never-ending stock pile of SunChips and undoubtedly admitted to myself that that is on the top of the list. I decided to share my observation with the world via Twitter and got a chuckle out of the interaction that followed.
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Tagged: Food, interacting with brands, social media, twitter, work
Dear smokers,
I do my best to stay out of your life and refrain from complaining about your unhealthy habit. You pollute my personal space, but I walk away or keep my disgust to myself. However, there is one thing that many of you do that I just can’t deal with anymore.
You throw your cigarette butts on the ground like it’s no big deal.
Newsflash… that’s littering!
What on earth makes you think you can just toss your cancer stick remnants anywhere and everywhere you please? Do you really think it’s someone else’s responsibility to clean those up? Do you not realize it’s taxpayer money going to clean the streets? Do you also think it’s okay to spit your gum on the ground, throw candy wrappers in the street and leave newspapers sitting on park benches?
What are you thinking???
Seriously. Are you really that blissfully ignorant?
If you need more information on how awful this habit of yours is or if you need further shaming, please visit CigaretteLitter.org.
In the meantime, please stop littering.
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Today Could I have been… turns one year old. You’d probably expect me to say “boy, time flew by and it seems like it was just yesterday I was blogging again!” but that’s not really how I feel. It’s been a long year (professionally, personally, in the world) and with more than 150 blog posts, it seems like it’s been much longer than a year since kicking this off.
This started as a way to document my road trip across America with Meagan. It’s been fun blogging again and having a place to share things I find, do and experience.
Anyway… not that exciting but a milestone worth recognizing (for my sake).
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Tagged: my blog, pug
I had thought I had seen it all… that was until Booger started receiving his own junk mail.
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Tagged: booger, only in san francisco, pug, ridiculousness
Last weekend I ran my 5th 5k in exactly one year. Last year I ran the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in 29:06 and as you can see I shaved off just over 3 minutes to finish (thanks to Dave for running with me and pacing me) in 26:05.
I have a goal for 2009 to either run a 5k in under 26:00 (ugh! so close) or to run a race with a distance more than 5k. Since I got so close to the 5k goal I think it’s time to move on and try something longer. I found a good timed 10k in December that I think I’ll work toward. My goal will be to finish in under an hour.
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Tagged: 5k, running
When is the last time you went 2 days without seeing another person? No, I don’t mean like last Sunday when you didn’t leave your apartment and barely left your couch. I mean no interaction even by phone, text or email. Not even seeing a person on TV or in a magazine.
This weekend Dave and I backpacked 31 miles around the Buena Vista loop in Yosemite and from about noon on Saturday to about noon on Monday we didn’t see a single person other than each other.
How often does that happen in life?
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Tagged: backpacking, national park, question, yosemite
Tourism just took an interesting turn…
October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
My sister was in town with her friend Megan this weekend and I was tasked with playing tour guide for the 324th time since moving to San Francisco 4.3 years ago. Jaime has been to SF a half dozen times so she’s done it all. Megan had never been to San Francisco (not even Calif.), so she hadn’t done or seen anything. So of course I had to find some sort of balance. I wanted to show Jaime things she hadn’t seen before but still show Megan some memorable and worthy sites.
So instead of potentially scarring them for life with a visit to the Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, Dave and I slapped together a fun little agenda: the Point Bonita Lighthouse, the Marine Mammal Center and………. the Presidio Pet Cemetery! If I might say so myself, a unique little trio of activities. If you’ve never been to any of the above, you should definitely put them on your to-do list. (What can I say, I’m pretty good at this tour guide stuff.)
The Presidio Pet Cemetery was particularly bizarre. I don’t know how many of you loyal readers out there have been to a pet cemetery before but there is something uniquely strange, comforting and interesting about them. Unfortunately it seems like the maintenance and upkeep at the Presidio Pet Cemetery is on the decline. They’ve recently chopped down a bunch of trees and it seems like there has been a lot of damage to the plot markers. All of that aside, it’s still a place worth checking out and wandering through.
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Tagged: family, inappropriate, only in san francisco