links for 2007-12-31
2007.12.31 @ 06:19My grain
2007.12.31 @ 00:02What’s up with the barometric pressure and this stream of numbing headaches as of late? I hope I can rally for The Zog’s party tomorrow night because a certain someone will hate me if I’m as boring tomorrow night as I was while eating her awesome offal.
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In other news, I have succumbed to Third Party Applications on Facebook and am now Scrabulating like nobody’s business.
No, seriously, it’s none of your business. Scrabulous is like, a scrimmage. The real game is on a Thursday night in an NYU law school dorm watching bad network television and waiting for your dinner to be delivered with two other women who will wipe the floor with you and make you like it. Also, challenges, bullshitting, and an agreed-upon dictionary are involved.
Okay, and this compare people application? It’s like, slam book 2.0. Not that I ever made one of those. Not that it was ever confiscated by the guidance counselor when I was in eighth grade, thus resulting in me and my friends being called into the office and then my friends announcing to me that they had discussed the issue amongst themselves and decided that they no longer wanted to be my friend. Uh… What was I talking about?
Oh yeah. Apparently I am TRUSTWORTHY and CONFIDENT! Preceding paragraph notwithstanding. And my good friend Findog had this to add:
“Being trapped on a desert island with ANP? Hmmmm… Can you really be trapped when you wake up one morning and are surrounded by 500 people because ANP has somehow organized a celebrity pub crawl on a deserted island? I think not…
That reminds me. Gotta book the trip to The Rubez … Not that I have any money (hello, $2,200/month rent and obscene purchasing of hot shoes and hot outfits thanks to a surge in my social calendar in late October).
But hey! Who needs money when you have credit?!
(More on that in a bit. Don’t nobody go applyin’ for any credit cards just yet, ya hear?)
My head hurts. Now to see if Dorie’s played a word yet.
links for 2007-12-30
2007.12.30 @ 06:23-
Flyer seen on facebook
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Hmm, this might change my Sunday night viewing schedule.
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Wait, honey is a fruit?
Detritus, question mark
2007.12.29 @ 18:19I make places for everything; I like to put everything in its place. The work bag is cleared out of braided elastics, coins, recyclables. I put the braided elastics in the ceramic shoe-thing I made for 4-H in elementary school, the coins in the red speckled bowl that sits on my bear-claw desk, and the recyclables in bags that rest in my foyer until they’re ready to go downstairs.
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Clean, efficient, organized. Useful.
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“I read something in The New Yorker about our DNA,” says my old man. It’s the holidays. The whole family is back in Amish country, Indiana. We share fights, back stories, old jokes, DNA.
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“What’s that?” I ask, wondering how it relates to the movie we all just saw together.
“They say 85% of it is detritus. Waste matter. Useless. But we can decode it, reverse engineer it, and figure out what viruses our ancestors did battle with.”
“And how does that help?” I ask.
“Well,” he says, shifting his weight from the toes of his Red Wing boots to the heels, back and forth, back and forth. “If we can figure out what viruses got us before, and that we eradicated, we can make sure they don’t come back and get us again.”
So maybe that DNA’s not detritus after all. I mean, looking at the bigger picture and stuff.
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I’m trying to get a jump on my New Year’s resolve, so I went running today. Upon arriving home, I patted down the pockets of my MetaReward-issued North Face fleece to make sure they were empty.
I felt a braided elastic through the fabric of one pocket. I started to fish for it, to put it in that 4-H ceramic.
“Wait,” I thought. “What if I go for a run and need to pull my hair back? What if I am camping and don’t feel like searching for a flashlight to get my bangs out of my face? What if one of my teammates needs a spare ponytail holder?”
I left the elastic where it was. Who knows? It might come in handy.
links for 2007-12-29
2007.12.29 @ 06:24-
Oh, Austin …
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One of my directs at The Bank used this word incorrectly 24/7 and its incorrect usage seems to have spread like a venereal disease. Ugh.
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Wow, Chase. 1. Your Favicon is a NETSCAPE graphic. 2. Your card art isn’t clickable. F-
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Because I don’t have enough blogs already
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Great post by Alecia re: faith. Methinks organized religion is convenient for people who are afraid to think critically and ask questions. Opiate for the masses. etc etc
links for 2007-12-28
2007.12.28 @ 06:21-
file folder tabs
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Danno’s fiancee’s company
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I bought a great leather necklace thing from her at the Bust winter Craftacular this year. I like the use of handwriting.
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For foyer
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mix with hope in a tube prior to using concealer
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for bronzer
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OMG must
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Banner ads on Hopstop.com
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“… whites rarely experience any racism; they don’t even notice the subtle forms of racism, and are thrown off balance when they are hit over the head by overt acts…”
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Sort of like the Magic 8 ball. Only better!
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I really didn’t expect all these pipes to converge so quickly. What’s next, WalMart offering yoga classes and psychotherapy? Crikey!
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Giving this a whirl.
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do the full moon tour
Big sister wins national award!
2007.12.27 @ 14:20FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mariana V. Nork202-457-0046
DISABILITY RIGHTS LEADERS FROM NEW YORK AND CHICAGO TO RECEIVE 2008 AAPD LEADERSHIP AWARDS
Award Presentation to be Made at Annual AAPD Leadership Gala
March 5, 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2007 – The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) has announced that a national advisory committee has selected two individuals to receive the 2008 Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Awards. Brett Eisenberg from New York, New York, a young leader whose work and influence within corporate America is helping people with disabilities to find employment, and Rahnee K. Patrick from Chicago, Illinois, a young disability rights movement organizer who is particularly passionate in working to help youth and students with disabilities, will each receive cash awards of $10,000 to further their work in the disability community.
“The disability movement needs leaders who can take our message to classrooms, to corporate boardrooms, to the streets, to our youth, to elected officials and to the media. The two individuals selected for the Hearne Award this year are breaking down barriers and building bridges in very different settings, but with common goals,” said AAPD President and CEO Andrew J, Imparato. “I commend Brett Eisenberg and Rahnee Patrick for their leadership, their creativity and their passion, and look forward to working with them to enhance the power and visibility of the disability community in the years to come.”
Brett Eisenberg is Disability Coordinator at American International Group (AIG) in Manhattan. In this capacity, he leads the corporation’s Disability Initiative programs in various areas, including recruitment and retention, corporate affairs, assistive technology, and products and services. He has created programs whereby AIG is able to focus on the disability population to better serve their needs as well as the needs of AIG.
A graduate of the renowned Henry Viscardi School in Albertson, New York, Eisenberg joined AIG in 2006 as an Analyst in the Human Resources-Corporate Staffing division. He was responsible for preparing all reports regarding hiring activity and cost per hire worldwide in addition to assisting in all aspects of the budget process for five different departments.
Eisenberg serves on the AIG Corporate Diversity Council. But his extensive involvement and outreach to assist people with disabilities in finding employment goes beyond his daily work at AIG. Eisenberg contributes his time, talent and energy as a member of five Business Advisory Councils, including Abilities, Inc., Just One Break, Inc. (JOB), and Fedcap. In addition, he founded and now directs the New York chapter of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.
Before joining AIG and while attending college, Eisenberg worked at Merrill Lynch in various areas including Private Wealth Management, Global Philanthropy, Office of General Counsel and Litigation Department.
Eisenberg was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, with a concentration in Management, from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. He also attended Adelphi University and Baruch College.
Rahnee Patrick joined Access Living, a leading disability advocacy organization run by people with disabilities, in Chicago, Illinois in 2002, and since mid-2004 has been the organization’s Youth and Education Team Leader. In this capacity, she addresses equal educational access for students with disabilities in Chicago Public Schools and the holistic well being of youth with disabilities, including their self-esteem, sexual health, and the development of leadership, and self-advocacy.
Patrick came to Chicago from northern Indiana, where she was highly involved in the disability rights movement. In 1992, she was a disabled student leader for Students Together Able and Respected (STAAR) at Indiana University South Bend, where she earned her B. A. with a minor in Women’s Studies.
In 2006, Patrick organized the first national ADAPT Youth Summit, an initiative to ensure youth with disabilities use direct action tactics and to keep ADAPT alive in the next generations of disability rights.
Patrick currently serves as the co-leader of Chicago ADAPT, and is an active member of Not Dead Yet and co-founder of Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA). She is an award-winning writer and writes about issues around disability, race and women. She also is a graduate of Partners in Policymaking (1997) and the New Leadership Development Advocacy Training (1999.)
Patrick is the oldest of four children, the daughter of a Thai immigrant and a Vietnam Veteran. On Labor Day weekend 2006, she married Mike Ervin and they live in downtown Chicago.
The 2008 Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Award recipients were selected on a highly competitive basis by a national advisory committee. This program carries on the work of AAPD founder Paul Hearne, a renowned leader in the national disability community, and to realize his goal of cultivating emerging disability rights leaders.
AAPD thanks the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation for its support of this program.
The 2008 Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Awards will be presented at the 2008 AAPD Leadership Gala, an awards ceremony and dinner, on March 5, 2008, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. For additional information about this event, visit the AAPD website or call AAPD at 202-457-0046 (V/TTY).
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The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country’s largest cross-disability membership organization, organizes the disability community to be a powerful voice for change – economically, politically, and socially. AAPD was founded in 1995 to help unite the diverse community of people with disabilities, including their family, friends and supporters, and to be a national voice for change in implementing the goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Lift that thing
2007.12.27 @ 14:12Since my ass cheeks are now two hyperactive squirrels trying to shred the backside of pants that fit nicely when I bought them a few short weeks ago, even though my weight is holding steady at one six zero I need to start hitting the weights again. Blub-a-lub-lub is not the kind of junk I want in my trunk and anyway, I’m starting to get tossed around like a frisbee underneath the basket. No good for bidness.
If anyone’s a member of NYSC and wants a workout buddy, holla. The one in Soho is closest to me but my office sits on top of Penn Station so that area’s good too.
Disclaimer: no randos, please. I need to know you in real life.
And what’s with strange dudes emailing unsolicited photos to my personal email address from their @talkmatch account?! S-T-O-P.
links for 2007-12-27
2007.12.27 @ 06:20-
If your ovaries aren’t pounding yet, oh, how they will be.
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Such a purty song
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Cutlets writ … VERY large!