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Archive for July, 2008

# Top 5: Social networking status updates for executives
Suitable for use on Facebook, Twitter, or the social networking site of your choice…
I’ve been a tad disillusioned at work this week, (can you tell?!)
1. Lyn is adrift on the sea of corporate hypocrisy, clinging desolately to her life-raft of fully-benchmarked best practice stakeholder engagement mechanisms.
 2. Lyn is synergising [...]

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Like a scene from The Neverending Story, the Nothingness washes over my life like a tsunami – leaving only the echo of empty rhetoric painting a beige white-wash atop the decomposing elements of a promising life.
I’m feeling a tad melancholy this week…
For no particular reason, I’ve been reassessing every facet of my life:

Finances: I need [...]

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Sleep – where for art thou?

Sleep. It’s one of those things you don’t appreciate the value of until you aren’t getting enough of it. (Sex, exercise, coffee and time-off all come to mind too…)
Like many 30-somethings, I struggle to juggle the competing demands of a young family, demanding career and a busy social calendar.
By the time I collapse into bed at the [...]

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# Top 5: Signs you’re a religious nutter

1. You have a burning desire to share the love
You just KNOW that you havebeen hand-picked by God to share your personal relationship with God with everyone you meet…. and share you do: in the supermarket, at work, the local P&C, everywhere you go, you rejoice in the name of [...]

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# Top 5: Signs you’ve found God
1. You don’t need to convert/convince others
Anyone who feels a deep-rooted need to prove that they hold the ultimate truth is a small-minded, short-sighted religious nutter. A person of mature faith becomes secure in their own journey, and it’s true to say that the wiser you get, the more [...]

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# Top 5: Things that would make me happy
These are not the humanitarian, Earth-shattering, life-changing, societal and transformational type items, these are selfish, inconsequential things that right now, today would rather cheer my little corner of existence…
1. Finding a job I love
For most of my career, I’ve focussed on doing what fits with my family obligations, [...]

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Miss. Understood?

Government departments are stoopid [sic].
The particular Government department with which I’m in constant liaison regarding my divorce has included me on their mailing list as MRS Ex-husband. MRS. *AHEM* Have they MISSED something?! *sheesh* Talk about being slow on the uptake.
(Yes, I’ve called them to fix it. Twice.)

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Long before Juno, (was it really 22 yrs ago?) Madonna preached to her papa about teen pregnancy and told me to respect myself and make my man express himself. Since those glory-days of punky feministas, the wave changed to angst-ridden and now angry young chicks, culminating in Christina and Pink teaching our youngsters to be [...]

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