invitation

Who wants to wake up in Vegas with Che-Elsie June 18-20?  We're going for a girls' trip.  But Wilson is totally invited. 

christmas cards!

do you all remember the christmas cards? I'm having a little guessing-game giveaway. it'll last til Sunday, so get your guess all sorted and posted by then for a chance to win a custom set of ten 4 ¼ by 5 ½ inch Christmas cards printed with whichever of this year's Christmas sketches you like best. read all about it over here.

Guest Speaker: Amelia Chesley

Hello everyone!

I have a plug for an STC-Intermountain event going down this Saturday. Amelia Chesley has graciously agreed to be our guest speaker on creating an online presence at our half-day workshop.

Find out more info (& RSVP!!!) here:
http://www.intermountain-stc.org/2009/10/22/november-chapter-meeting/

Reunion, indeed.

it's october!

so... when's Poe in the Dark? they still do that, right?

reunion, anyone?

even just a small one?

free business cards

I've written about this site on my own blog, once before. I found out recently they're having a little contest and giving away thousands of free business cards. for the freelancers among us, perhaps? or anyone, really.

here are the details.

if any of you win, be sure and let me know!

aren't they pretty? mmm.

font fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6djQHeqMwQ

something needs to be done

so.

I'm going to ace the GRE. that is my new goal.

all the free practice programs I've seen so far are not compatible with Linux.

this is unfair.

who can I write an angry letter to?

Amelia,

it's your long lost bff vanessa...you're taking the GRE? I took it and it sucked! Any questions? hehe. How are you? How's life?

this will work. i hope.

I'm going to try exporting one of these blogs and then importing it into the other one.... in effect, merging the things together... any objections?
it probably can be undone if it ends up being ridiculous, but if it works, it'll save us any worries about having loose ends lying around.

so... cross your fingers...

It's back!

Does anyone know why the blog disappeared and why it is now back? Or did nobody else notice?

Hello??

It's back!

Does anyone know why the blog disappeared and why it is now back? Or did nobody else notice?

Hello??

hmmm....

let's see if this works. this is a picture of my desk in my second area in Lethbridge, Alberta. random, I know. mostly we're just checking this out to see if the blog here is really still alive...

v strikes back

Hi everyone!!!

I knew I should have dug some of Shae's old papers out of the recycling bin while I had the chance so I could Ebay them.

I have been MIA for a while, but Jerilynn brought me back to the fold with a very lovely and impromptu email. I hope everyone is doing marvelously well in this booming economy of ours and if anyone has a massive estate in Sonoma now, please feel free to host a reunion at your earliest convenience. Has anyone heard from Senor Bateman? No doubt he has a castle in Dubai that we could crash in for a few nights, do some indoor skiing and whatnot.

Much love to all,

Vanessa

Merry Christmas

Never eat snowflakes. I miss you all! Have happy holidays wherever you are.

She strikes again!

well friends.....Shae's done it again. Remember extremely accomplished amazing Shae Curtis? Who's seeming fountain of talents never seemed to cease? Well she posted this on facebook and I stumbled across it. So way to go Shae and add one more astounding accomplishment to your belt!

Happy Halloween!

Hi everybody!

I'm still alive! And really bad at emailing and posting to the blog, but you already knew that part. Nothing too exciting going on here, but I just wanted to brag a little about my office Halloween decorations.

This is the former occupant of my office...

Actually, he's one of those coming out of the ground skeletons and he's held up with push pins, packing tape, and a lot of wishing.

And actually this isn't my office anymore. They moved me and my office mate (you can see his desk to the left of Yorik) to the corner office.

It's lovely, with two walls of big windows where I can watch the weather and traffic patterns. The only downside is that all of that glass is cold!

This is my desk. It's huge. before I started here, this was the CEO's office. Then our company got acquired by Pearson and the office (and desk) sat empty and available for visitors until now. All of that history makes it a little strange to be here, but it makes sense for two of us to share the larger office, rather than being smushed in a smaller office.

K, I guess I have to get to work now. Love!

the importance of font choice

In Honor of Halloween

Spencer and I were in Walmart the other day, buying pumpkins to carve. I saw Lisa's twin, and as usual, went to wave excitedly, but caught myself, unlike numerous times before. However, to my extreme delight, it really was LISA! I was so excited. Her poor sister probably is so sick of me waving frantically at her, then trying to play it off like I'm fixing my hair. Anyway, we embraced and chatted for a minute. It made me miss everyone terribly.

Speaking of, don't we all miss Poe in the Dark? I considered going this year...you know, since Spencer is still a student. But I just felt too old; I couldn't bring myself to do it. I found this to commemorate the season though. It still makes me laugh hysterically.

It's about time!

Has anyone noticed? THEY FINALLY CHANGED THE ENGLISH DEPTARTMENT'S WEBSITE!! Yay! Only two years later. (Click on the link to the right to see.)

. . . I really wanted to be noticed.

Has anyone heard from Amelia?

Bejing 2008

This is in honor of the Olympics....thought you folks might enjoy. Please note that the gymnast was a competitive men's gymnast at the University of Illinois. Also the audio is very quiet. Enjoy!

Incase you didn't get my e-mail:

For my fellow nerds.

xoxo

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766