nonconformity

YOU would make a GREAT *before* picture!

April 12, 2011
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ShareI wrote the following post nearly a month ago. Looking at it today, I realize that this incident played a big role in my disappearance over the past few weeks. I’ve been hiding out, pondering the question:  “What the hell am I doing?” Which is strange. I usually run off and hide *after* I click [...]

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I survived a non-sucky networking event

August 15, 2010
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ShareLast week, Joe and I attended a Biznik casual mixer. I wrote about preparing for the event here. This is what actually happened. On the morning of the event, I noticed that I wasn’t really feeling nervous. I took this as a good sign and as further evidence of my growing super powers. I also [...]

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8 reasons why pajamas are my wardrobe of choice

May 19, 2010

Share For the past several weeks, I’ve been wearing pajamas exclusively. In public. Every day. Grocery shopping, out for lunch, the entire road trip through Mexico, on the airplane (no one said “boo” about it), to the movies, to the mechanic, out walking the dog. Even out for dinner with my high profile, semi-famous (and [...]

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Pajama experiment results: 9/10 speakers surveyed sleep naked

March 8, 2010

ShareI did it! I wore pajamas to all 3 days of the Lady and the Champs speakers’ conference. They did not throw me out. I was not (completely) rejected. And I was not assimilated. Rest assured that if I use any corporate jargon, it’s only to make fun of it. What happened? Here are the [...]

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Announcing my intention, asking for what I want and doing it all wrong

February 28, 2010

ShareAck. Even the title makes me want to run and hide under the bed (if I had a bed, that is). Why is it that I can publicly proclaim that I fucked up my life, that I struggle with depression and tend to drink a tad much…but when it comes to making a simple announcement [...]

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Don’t call me…and I won’t call you…

December 1, 2009

ShareI am avoiding making a phone call. This is familiar ground for me. The dreaded phone. Phones were my nemesis for years. There was a time in my life where I just *couldn’t* make phone calls. Not even for pizza…and I really like pizza. I used to pawn off all the phone calling and answering [...]

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