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Monday, November 13th

Work experience and what it means...

The EBs went out with no problems and yet, it can be an awfully stressful moment for me. I'm always checking and rechecking for errors. I have absolutely ZERO tolerance for publications with spelling and grammatical errors and HATE it when we make those kinds of mistakes, something I learned in my first job out of college working for David Laux at the USA-ROC Economic Council.

Actually, in hindsight, that was probably the best job I could have ever asked for coming right out of college, not knowing what I wanted to do. I reported directly to David, and David reported directly to Caspar Weinberger. So the exposure I got in dealing with HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS -- sorry I have to CAPS LOCK that because till this day the actual term still gets on my nerves -- was pretty awesome, though to be honest I didn't realize it at the time. As David says, I was very "wet behind the ears" back then. Anyway, David used to FREAK OUT when one word in ten thousand was misspelled, a habit I've picked up from him every since... and isn't it funny to see Weinberger in my journals?!

Coffee with Wennie...

Am I digressing or what. Anyway, I worked right through lunch today and ate my leftover Subway sandwich that I couldn't finish the night before. Lately I've been too busy to eat and am lucky if I can break for one meal a day. Wennie and I grabbed a quick cup of coffee later on in the afternoon. I showed her my BLOND streak. SHE said it looked green. WHATEVER WENNIE. She's been wanting to get some photos up on the web, so we were talking about which site is most useful, MSN or Geocities.

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Can we make a better keyboard?

Unrelated, I was telling her how much I'd love to have a specially-made keyboard that came with a big round RED rubber key, the size of my palm or larger, that I could just SLAM each time I get a dumb email and want to delete it. I get the dumbest messages sometimes and derive so little satisfaction from pointing and clicking on the "delete" button on my screen. How much more gratifying would it be to have a big red HONKER on the left-side of my keyboard (I'm left-handed) that I could just WHACK every time someone sends me a stupid email. Even more cool is if it would actually ... gong ... or say something like "YOU SUCK". Wennie wholeheartedly agreed.

Other than that, today has been relatively uneventful. Just doing my work and plugging away at this website. I should be done with the bulk of it in a couple of days.

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