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Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid

Posted 6th May 2008 by Florinda Pendley Vasquez

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After kicking it around for a couple of weeks, I've gone ahead and joined Twitter. It looks like it's not going to be nearly as big a time suck as I feared, and I can use it through Gmail Chat, which I keep open all the time anyway. If it gets ridiculous, I can always bail on it, but I just couldn't…

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The devil I know, an unexpected clarification, and an idea about my next job

Posted 22nd April 2008 by Florinda Pendley Vasquez, tagged next job, clarity, referrals

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I was very surprised to find a e-mail from my old boss this morning letting me know he'd given my name to a recruiter for a similar, though higher-paying, position with a larger agency. Not surprised that he referred me, since I know he always thought pretty highly of my work, but that he told me about…

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Happy Birthday, WIM, and thanks for everything!

Posted 14th April 2008 by Florinda Pendley Vasquez, tagged wim birthday

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I feel like we've been growing up together. I started my blog just a few weeks before Work It, Mom opened for business last year. I became a member here on May 23, 2007, so I wasn't quite here from the beginning, but I think that when I joined the members numbered in the low hundreds. The first time…

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Tag-team parenting, or a story of rotten timing

Posted 18th March 2008 by Florinda Pendley Vasquez, tagged flexibility, sick kids, stepkids, parenting

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You know how everything hits at once? It's one of those weeks...My agency's annual audit started on Monday. The auditors are supposed to be at our offices only for this week, but you can never be sure about that. They're a new-to-us firm this year, so that means more learning time, and they're auditing…

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My day, all mine!

Posted 18th March 2008 by Florinda Pendley Vasquez, tagged day to yourself

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I actually have a couple of "me days" coming up soon - at the end of next week, as it happens. It's not always possible due to the scheduling of certain things at my job - namely, our annual financial audit - but whenever I can, I don't go to work on my birthday. This year, my birthday is on a Saturday,…

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