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Touche Pierson. Touche. One point, to start: -Well if it’s Che Chi and not Chee Chee than 9,500 Boston College students are mispronouncing. Write them a memo. Moving on. Agreed about the finding of the bottom line. Slightly off as it pertains to Deeb – who is Sam’s son (that was weird). 1. I haven’t had a rum and coke since high school. Rum makes …
We have developed this amazing ability to find the bottom line. What I mean is, when we’re on gchat sneaking conversation between people walking by our desks, we have to cut down our otherwise important and deep conversations to the bare minimum of questions and answers. Ask fast, and think fast. Sometimes the bottom line can be pretty brutal, though. There’s no grey area. Its …
My girls and I play a little game we call Deal Breakers. It’s simple. We go through the alphabet and assign one deal-breaker quality – something that would end a potential relationship with a guy- to each letter. A: acne, B: bald, C: cancer…and it goes on. It is a rousing game that results in heated discussion and, sometimes, hurt feelings. -“T: tattoo?! You’re saying …
I met a guy at my company Christmas party last week. Yes, I’m that girl. A girl who, after two + years in Manhattan would be open to meeting a guy in the check-out line of a Gristedes. A company function is not below me – it’s above me. Not the point – of this post at least. Guy was charming. Short-ish and ambiguously ethnic, …
We thought we had it all figured out. Until we discovered we hated our job after the first month, and a co-worker asked us out on a date, and we had to decide if “adult” hook-ups always include sex, and our first check bounced. That’s when we realized we were screwed. No more dorm living room forums, no more focus-on-your-life-goals courses, drafts that cost way …