If there was ever any doubt as to whether I was in the right place to indulge my overindulgent tendencies, this confirmed it and removed all doubt:
http://www.chocolateshow.com/
And it's good to know this show hits other cities as well. Although now that I've seen this Ali and I may need to reconsider our 2014 move-to-Singapore plans in favor of Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, or Shanghai.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
PRESIDENTIAL QUIZ FOR ELECTION DAY:
COMPLIMENTS OF MY DAD - a bit of a political enthusiast... (hence the reason for the urgent phone call I got Saturday asking me to pick up more badges to round out his collection)
Oh and don't worry if you don't know any of these... I only got TWO right. I'm kind of dying about that and thinking about going back to school because apparently I know nothing!
1. Who is the only person to serve 2 terms as vice president and 2 terms as president?
2. What was the official name of the political party that Teddy Roosevelt ran under in the 1912 election?
3. Who was the only president to never be married?
4. How many different vice presidents served during FDR’s tenure as President?
5. Who is the only person to ever serve non consecutive terms as president?
6 The election of 1800 had to go to the congress to elect a winner. The ballots were tied for 35 ballots. Thomas Jefferson eventually won the election. Who was the candidate who was tied w
ith Jefferson on those ballots?
7. Who was the first Mormon to declare himself a candidate for President of the United States?
8. Before Bush 43, who was the last president to win the presidency while losing the popular vote? And before Bush 43, who was the last president to be elected without receiving a majority of the popular vote?
9. How many of the men we elected president have been impeached? And name him (or them).
10. Virginia is the state that has produced the most presidents. Name the state that has produced the second most number of presidents?
TIE BREAKER QUESTION: Who was the president that was sandwiched between the non consecutive terms of one of the presidents?
ANSWERS TO BE POSTED JUST AS SOON AS WE FIND OUT WHO ARE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE! Although, I don't feel like we'll be even a smidge surprised.
Oh and don't worry if you don't know any of these... I only got TWO right. I'm kind of dying about that and thinking about going back to school because apparently I know nothing!
1. Who is the only person to serve 2 terms as vice president and 2 terms as president?
2. What was the official name of the political party that Teddy Roosevelt ran under in the 1912 election?
3. Who was the only president to never be married?
4. How many different vice presidents served during FDR’s tenure as President?
5. Who is the only person to ever serve non consecutive terms as president?
6 The election of 1800 had to go to the congress to elect a winner. The ballots were tied for 35 ballots. Thomas Jefferson eventually won the election. Who was the candidate who was tied w
ith Jefferson on those ballots?7. Who was the first Mormon to declare himself a candidate for President of the United States?
8. Before Bush 43, who was the last president to win the presidency while losing the popular vote? And before Bush 43, who was the last president to be elected without receiving a majority of the popular vote?
9. How many of the men we elected president have been impeached? And name him (or them).
10. Virginia is the state that has produced the most presidents. Name the state that has produced the second most number of presidents?
TIE BREAKER QUESTION: Who was the president that was sandwiched between the non consecutive terms of one of the presidents?
ANSWERS TO BE POSTED JUST AS SOON AS WE FIND OUT WHO ARE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE! Although, I don't feel like we'll be even a smidge surprised.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
If You Get Sick and Have to Stay Home from Work:
I recommend watching 12 hours of Friday Night Lights. I know I SHOULD be embarrassed - but have you seen this show? Plus, let's be honest - there are other guilty viewing pleasures that merit more embarrassment...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Speaking of Money
If my direct deposits were larger, I'd send you all a box of these:
http://levainbakery.com/
I pretty much think about these all day every day, and if I get off work before they close - I stop by and somehow feel like $3.75 for a cookie is a really good deal.
Liz is...
Grateful for Payday.*
I always forget that we have jobs to earn money. Somehow I internalized the whole "do something you love and don't worry about the money" advice (that our parents' generation so zealously showered on us) to the point that I don't see my job as a means to money. But on days like today when it's a struggle to get in by 10:30 (ask Linds and Amy about this morning or Ali about every morning) it's good to see my e-pay notice and remember there is some sort of meaning in it all - in addition to filling out tax returns of course-which is so obviously fraught with meaning.
*thanks for indulging my desire to participate in the facebook status without actually using the facebook status tool...
I always forget that we have jobs to earn money. Somehow I internalized the whole "do something you love and don't worry about the money" advice (that our parents' generation so zealously showered on us) to the point that I don't see my job as a means to money. But on days like today when it's a struggle to get in by 10:30 (ask Linds and Amy about this morning or Ali about every morning) it's good to see my e-pay notice and remember there is some sort of meaning in it all - in addition to filling out tax returns of course-which is so obviously fraught with meaning.
*thanks for indulging my desire to participate in the facebook status without actually using the facebook status tool...
Sunday, October 5, 2008
A Surprising Reaction to Stress:
Work is too much! It's ridiculous. I know I keep harping on it. And anytime I see any of you in the flesh I'm sure it's all I've talked to you about--may I just apologize for that now! How annoying! So I PROMISE that in 10 days when the madness is over I will join the real world again. And I can't wait! But don't worry--in the meantime I don't think I'll see any of you anyway (as I'll be at 300 Madison from now until the 15th) so this will be the last of my complaints!
Anyway, enough is enough -with this whining as much as the work itself. Plus - the reason behind this stream of consciousness post is not to vent but to share what I have found to be an entertaining reaction to stress...
Incessant Laughter!
How weird is that? I think it's a sign that I'm really cracking up! People will write mildly funny things on my inter-PwC messenger "sametime" (akin to google chat but more acceptable in the office because it's presumably all professionally relevant-right...) and I will start giggling at my desk. Audible giggling. The kind that lets everyone around you know that you're not working. And then if someone writes something actually funny I will start laughing so hard I have to excuse myself to either the bathroom or the pantry! I feel like I'm 12. Now there's a way to shoot your 16-hour day in the foot. You work hard all day and then giggle for 20 seconds and suddenly everyone around you assumes that you're not getting anything done... Oh dear and oh well.
Just think how hard I'll laugh when I'm back to doing fun things and hearing real jokes about non-tax accounting. You'll probably be embarrassed to be around me in public, but you'll also probably feel like the funniest person in the world!
Anyway, enough is enough -with this whining as much as the work itself. Plus - the reason behind this stream of consciousness post is not to vent but to share what I have found to be an entertaining reaction to stress...
Incessant Laughter!
How weird is that? I think it's a sign that I'm really cracking up! People will write mildly funny things on my inter-PwC messenger "sametime" (akin to google chat but more acceptable in the office because it's presumably all professionally relevant-right...) and I will start giggling at my desk. Audible giggling. The kind that lets everyone around you know that you're not working. And then if someone writes something actually funny I will start laughing so hard I have to excuse myself to either the bathroom or the pantry! I feel like I'm 12. Now there's a way to shoot your 16-hour day in the foot. You work hard all day and then giggle for 20 seconds and suddenly everyone around you assumes that you're not getting anything done... Oh dear and oh well.
Just think how hard I'll laugh when I'm back to doing fun things and hearing real jokes about non-tax accounting. You'll probably be embarrassed to be around me in public, but you'll also probably feel like the funniest person in the world!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wishing on Eyelashes
I just spent twenty-five precious minutes organizing my desk... it had become a scary mess of piles. The kind of piles that start out with meaning. Someone asks you for a document and you can reach up one pile and over two and have exactly what they need immediately. But somehow that type of order inevitably turns to total chaos...such that this morning when I got in my heart sank... wondering who had dropped all this stuff off and what they wanted me to do with all of it! Of course once I actually looked at what was strewn about I realized that I was the culprit... oh dear.
Anyway, after finally cleaning my desk I started feeling a little overprotective. Suddenly I felt like I couldn't tolerate anything to be out of place. I started fidgeting with my phone cord and my post-its. I became obsessed with order! I noticed an eyelash next to my keyboard and swept it right into the garbage can. And only after it was already in the trash with my fun-size snickers wrappers did I realize how sad that was! I ALWAYS wish on eyelashes. When did my subconscious start interpreting eyelashes as waste as opposed to the three leaf clovers they are supposed to be?
Anyway, after finally cleaning my desk I started feeling a little overprotective. Suddenly I felt like I couldn't tolerate anything to be out of place. I started fidgeting with my phone cord and my post-its. I became obsessed with order! I noticed an eyelash next to my keyboard and swept it right into the garbage can. And only after it was already in the trash with my fun-size snickers wrappers did I realize how sad that was! I ALWAYS wish on eyelashes. When did my subconscious start interpreting eyelashes as waste as opposed to the three leaf clovers they are supposed to be?
But don't worry--if I've learned anything from the PwC bookclub book of the month (the brain that changes itself) - it's that I can change all this. I can reframe and get back to instinctive eyelash wishing. And luckily with how tired work is making me--I'll be rubbing my eyes plenty and littering my desk with all sorts of eyelashes.
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