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Posted by Me @ 10:31AM [Link]
I can't believe that even after the dot-bomb era (or are we still in the dot-bomb era? It's all moving too fast for me.) there are still these guys that do the hardcore networking-sales thing. You know the kind of guys I'm talking about...
These guys are always super-hyped. Drive flashy cars. Dress cool. Have all the new gadgets (paid for by someone else's cash of course). They are constantly pressing the flesh. They have a new idea to add to their phantom business plan every hour. They work the room like sharks. They talk about all about their "core competency", how they will provide you with "solutions", something about them being "enterprise" level, and somehow they always talk a lot, but say very little. When they leave, you feel a little dirty. You want to shake it off and feel a little jittery shiver going down your spine. You wipe your shaking hand on your jeans to get rid of the cooties.
You wonder if they have a real life at all or if they are like this all the time. Are they embarrasingly over-confident with their friends? Do they try to sell their Moms on their wacky new web ideas? Are they on at 100 watts 100% of the time? Do they eat real food? Do they sleep? Or are they the business robots that are here to hornswaggle us real humans and eventually take over the earth?
I really don't know. I just know that I can't *do* that. It's unhuman, unreal, in a word - grossinating. I don't want to sell myself. I want to get to know people. I want to learn from them. I want to teach them. I want to share, think, emote, live. If I happen to have skills that they need - so be it - it's fortunate. Maybe I'll be kicking myself because these types will take all the clients and I'll be left behind in the dust. But I'd rather be left behind in the dust and still feel like a *real* person, than sell my soul to the networking-sales devil.
Posted by Me @ 12:06AM [Link]
Sorry. It's been so long since I've written anything here. I have no real excuse. Life just caught up with me. Lots of things have been going on in my real life and I haven't had the time or energy to keep my blog up to date. So here's some catch up...
Posted by Me @ 01:01PM [Link]
The morning after pill (aka Plan B) doesn't always work.
I know this because a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) became pregnant after using it. What horrible horrible luck. A condom breaks... go to the clinic and get emergency contraception... then a few weeks later find out you're still pregnant. You've taken all the precautions... done everything right... just the way you're supposed to. What are the chances? Very tiny. So the born-again virgins and those against sex-ed in schools are right - at least in one sense. Abstinence is the only 100% effective form of birth control (except for virgin births of course...).
But how realistic is it for most people. Not very realistic. So anyone that has a mistake, a broken condom, rape, or whatever... I still encourage you to go to your family doctor or the local Planned Parenthood clinic for the morning after pill. It's still your best chance for preventing pregnancy, despite the experience of my friend.
Posted by Me @ 01:00PM [Link]
So he finally got to go to the prom. It's about time. Welcome to the 21st century.
I must say that it seems as if the Catholic school system is certainly discriminating when it chooses which tenets of the faith they "enforce". If they weren't discriminating against gay people - but just trying to stop sexual activity outlawed by the rules of the Church - then no one would be going to the prom. I always thought that sexual activity between unmarried men and women was also against the rules. Why should the school system enforce Catholocism anyway - I thought they were meant to teach about it not force students to live it. Mark Hall's "sins" should be judged by his own conscience and his God, not by the school administrators.
Read other opinons on the court decision.
Posted by Me @ 12:47PM [Link]