January 2012
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Gender Bias at NPR →
I’ve been reading quite a few articles over the past year about the gender bias in publishing. My own library choices from this month represent this 60/40 spit between male & female authors (check out my goodreads account).
Until this article spelled it out, I never really noticed how much the media genuinely ignores novels written by women and how much that can effect the literary...
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I was out in Cambridge yesterday and haven’t caught up on my newsfeed yet. Some one fill me in on the hilariously wrong MLK quote posts that undoubtedly happened. Please?
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December 2011
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In which I complain about having 20 days off of...
I just finished doing a months worth of work in three days. Well, not really finished, more like- “It’s 11:30pm and I haven’t started packing and I need to leave for the airport in 7 hours- I’m done, let’s hope I don’t get fired when they see all the stuff I left to do.” Being the only person in my company that does design, coding, website/blog managing,...
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Scottish as a second language
I have no idea how Scottish people make it in the English-speaking business world. I need the Rosetta stone to try to figure out what these people are trying to say and the transcription takes me at least twice as long.
Example quote taken from my current project:
“A lot of non-financial where employer are paid shorter service. People. Big numbers.”
Can someone translate this from...
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I am working 2 jobs this week, helping my husband’s company transcribe telephone interviews. And this one guy, he is the heaviest mouth breather, real phone prank pervert material. I keep on getting too grossed out to type out what he is trying to say in between his heavy panting. I just want to rock myself back and forth under a shower, but there is 20 more minutes to transcribe.
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The Art of Dancing Advent Calender →
Happy Christmas !
November 2011
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Harrods Christmas Windows by Swarovski →
More inspired by Showgirls than Saint Nick. See some more photos here.