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		<title>Le sigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Dowd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I work for a living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Boss gave his two week notice on Monday. He&#8217;s leaving the venerable newspaper biz. Can&#8217;t really say that I blame him, given the current situation. I wish him well. I&#8217;ll miss working with him. He&#8217;s good people. Longtime readers will remember that once upon a time, I had his job, and he worked for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, Boss gave his two week notice on Monday. He&#8217;s leaving the venerable newspaper biz. Can&#8217;t really say that I blame him, given <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=newspapers+are+dying&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a">the current situation.</a> I wish him well. I&#8217;ll miss working with him. He&#8217;s good people.</p>
<p>Longtime readers will remember that once upon a time, I had his job, and he worked for me. Then <a href="http://www.ladygypsy.net/archives/2006/choosing-life/">I gave up that job</a> so I could be techy again. Now it&#8217;s open again. And in my hot little hands, I have a self-nomination form.</p>
<p>And so the debate begins. Do I go for the management job? I&#8217;m going to be frank and it&#8217;s going to sound pompous. I KNOW that job. I can DO that job. Well&#8230;except maybe the sales part, since they&#8217;re looking for a sales manager. And I&#8217;ve never been good at that. Then again, I&#8217;m not terrifically sure that I want to train a new manager on the reports, the tech, etc. Might be easier just to do it myself.</p>
<p>So I prayed on it (yes, I do that) and I did some research. I&#8217;m telling you, people. Keep a blog. Even if you keep it private. Even if it&#8217;s in one of those old-fangled paper journals. Do it. Because I went back and read between the lines of my 2005 and 2006 work-related entries and remembered just how much I HATED that job. </p>
<p>In conclusion, I&#8217;m going to give up the opportunity to regain the &#8220;fame&#8221;, &#8220;fortune&#8221;, parking spot, master key, and seat at The Big Weekly Meeting. Because I like my job JUST the way it is right now.</p>
<p>In other news, tomorrow I&#8217;m heading to the Boston area for <a href="http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf/6/agenda/3">BlogHer</a>. I&#8217;m a bit apprehensive about the meeting because I won&#8217;t know anyone there and what I want the absolute LEAST is to sit by myself the whole time and have no one talk to me. I am still just as insecure as I was when I was 12. When nobody talked to me. <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=le%20sigh">Le sigh</a>.</p>
<p>Other than the social paralysis, I&#8217;m stoked to be in a meeting with a bunch of bloggy chicks. I want to be a better writer. I want to polish this little website of mine until it shines like a sapphire. And in the grand tradition of networking&#8230;I created business cards!</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.ladygypsy.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mybizcard.gif" alt="" title="mybizcard" width="300" height="176" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1629" border="1"/></center></p>
<p>Other than <a href="http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/bounce-script/">the font</a>, which I will use until I die since I spent $30 for it back in 2003*, you&#8217;ll notice it looks nothing like my site! Huzzah for design continuity!</p>
<p>Le sigh.</p>
<p>BUT&#8230;I ordered them on Monday from <a href="http://www.nextdayflyers.com/ndf/sites/ndf/">nextdayflyers.com</a>. I paid $40 for them  &#8211; mostly shipping. It would be about the same had I picked a crummy black and white stock design from Office Max and waited a week to get them done.</p>
<p>I will try my best to blog from BlogHer on Saturday. If I can get a seat near an outlet, I&#8217;m golden. Otherwise the lappy battery won&#8217;t last more than 2 hours. There should be plenty of outlets. I hope. Wish me luck!</p>
<p><font size="-2">(if you&#8217;re going to Blogher Boston, please talk to me. or email me at the address on the business card image. thank you.)</font></p>
<p>* When I die, if I end up with a headstone, I&#8217;m going to request THAT font be used to engrave my name on it. Years later I can&#8217;t believe I spent $30 on a font for personal use.  That&#8217;s what happens when you marry a pharmacist, people. You spend money on crazy shit.</p>
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