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July 18, 2010

Burning Man – The Trendsetter

Well, well, well.  So the Museum of Science and Industry in my beloved Chicago is looking for someone to live in the museum for a month.  The exhibit is a furnished cube complete with bed, desk , and chairs furnished…

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July 17, 2010

Jobs Aplenty

The United Farm Workers association has launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign that they’ve labeled ‘Take Our Jobs.’  Unemployed?  Need a job.  Go be a farm worker.  There are lots of opportunities. I am staunchly against the anti-immigrant laws stemming in Arizona. …

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July 16, 2010

Gone North

Around 2 in the afternoon yesterday, we got in the car and decided to take a trip.  How about Hog Island?  We’d always wanted to go.  Not the Hog Island Bar a few minutes from where we live at the…

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July 15, 2010

Startup.com

I absolutely love the documentary Startup.com.  I thought it was a true characterization of the dot com era.  It wasn’t insightful, merely realistic—following two best friends as they tried to capitalize on the internet mania.  From company launch to funding…

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July 14, 2010

Vive La France

I always feel the need to celebrate Bastille Day because I took French for three years in high school and I was in France one year celebrating the holiday.  It was pure insanity, bustling through the Champs Elysees with everyone…

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July 13, 2010

Perfect Gifts

We are thankful for any wedding present we receive—no matter what it is.  In fact, my favorite gift so far has been a photo album.  My cousin pieced it together with pictures that she had taken throughout the weekend.  It…

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July 12, 2010

Puppy!

It’s our one month anniversary today.  No, we didn’t actually get a new puppy, but Dean is my wubby puppy every single day. Here he is camouflaged as a scruffy puppy.  Dean is really good at imitating people, but more…

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July 11, 2010

When You Believe…

it will happen. So I’m reading my b-school’s magazine that comes out every quarter and in it are highlights of someone who expected the best and got it.  That’s our very own Dean Snyder who concluded his nine-year tenure with…

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July 10, 2010

World Cup Final

I started out rooting for the USA because, well, I am American. After the USA, I was rooting for the little people–Japan and South Korea, but not North Korea because they’re communist. Next up was Spain because my parents are…

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July 9, 2010

That Spark

I watched this video on the NYTimes about a teenager who loved ballet and wanted to be a ballerina so passionately that she uprooted herself from Texas and moved solo to Moscow to train with Bolshoi instructors. Talk about culture…

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