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Not so glad to be home, but stupid news is everywhere
Hi All, got back from my trip to the UK and Lithuania a couple of days ago. I really did not want to come home. Unfortunately, both Mr. writerdd and I have to work, so here we are. I was welcomed home by this lovely news story from the Denver Post, a reminder of one of the things I don’t…
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Round Three of the Public Radio Talent Quest!
Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the second round of the Public Radio Talent Quest — because of you, I just made it into Round Three! More details to come on what the new challenges will be. Whatever they are, they’re sure to be lots of fun and I can’t wait! Kudos to the three very talented people…
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Talent Quest, Round Two Voting!
Finally! Round Two of the Public Radio Talent Quest is now ready for your listening pleasure. There were three challenges: we had one story intro to write and record, one page of copy we had to read live with no prep, and then a “word association,” in which they gave us a word or phrase and we literally just took…
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Housekeeping
A few updates: * The new laptop is up and running at the Skepchick home office. Thanks again to everyone who helped with advice and/or sympathy! * The second round of the Public Radio Talent Quest will be recorded late next week, with voting to follow shortly thereafter. Stay tuned for that. * The 2008 Skepchick & Skepdude calendars are…
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Cross-Posting Goodness
The Public Radio Talent Quest guys have given me and my nine other semi-finalists blogs, and they’re asking us to discuss our experience going through the contest. I’ll be cross-posting so that I can continue to distribute love to my skeptical homies here while fulfilling my new role as contestant-under-the-spotlight over there. The direct link to my blog there: http://www.publicradioquest.com/blog/2760.…
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I made it to Round Two!
Whoa. A few weeks ago I asked you all to go through the trouble of registering on the Public Radio Talent Quest web site to listen to my two-minute intro and vote for me. Well, apparently you did it in droves, because out of nearly 1,500 entrants, I was chosen to be one of ten to move forward to the…
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I’m currently taking MBA courses, which are ostensibly not a waste of my time. However, this past week I attended the first of five sessions on the subject of business communication and I think I left a little dumber than when I arrived. Communication is usually an interesting subject for me because it’s one of the few business courses that…
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How I Spent My Memorial Day Vacation
I am addicted to work. Not work-work, like the work I get paid to do. Oh no. That would be too easy. No, I’m addicted to the work I don’t get paid to do. This is the grand epiphany I experienced during my long weekend sans Iggy the Powerbook (RIP). I tried to keep busy. Friday after work I had…
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