mini-vacation

i’m using a lot of the word ‘mini’ lately. am i just feeling small?

just got back from a weekend + 2 days in vegas. the boss was kind enough to let jer and me go for the weekend leading up to a meeting i was helping run on tuesday. i can’t tell you what it was for, because after all, what happens in vegas, stays in vegas.

but i can tell you about the food. the rio seafood buffet (ha, i spelled that ‘buffett’ at first, like jimmy! that’s what you get when you see that awful cheesy neon [wait, that’s everything in vegas] ‘margaritaville’ sign every day for three days) was as awesome as ever. aladdin’s spread was not as ridiculously expansive, but still quite flavorful, and the quality is close to what i remembered. and the jer and pearl vegas experience is complete without a nathan’s hot dog. actually, strike that. no vegas outing is complete without a trip to Fat Tuesday, but this trip was work-related, so it doesn’t really count.

in more depressing mortality news, ODB is dead. hey, dirty, baby i got your money, don’t you worry. may he rest in peace. :(

in more depressing political news, condi rice has been nominated to fill colin powell’s vacated seat as sec of state. the counts of people stepping down in the current bush administration are now approaching Clinton’s numbers, but I don’t recall the shaking up of his cabinet at such high levels in such highly touted roles in the administration. I’m going to have to double check that, though. (to be continued)

off to bed i go. i put my sarcasm to rest for the evening.

sixty hour weeks

…really start to take a toll on you after a while. now i’m no i-banker or lawyer or uber-geek working for some pre-IPO Silicon Valley wunder-company, i’m just a pr gal. but damn, having three active contracts and bidding on fourth and worrying about an internal ISO audit at the end of the week is downright maddening. I had a 21-hour workday last week, rushing to finish preparations for a T3 session we had for a client the next day. it took so much time because the client kept making changes to the presentation the day of, which meant we had to redo slides, rearrage slides, repaginate, and make changes up until just a few hours before the training was to take place. needless to say, that was a freakishly difficult day, from which i am still recovering…

i’m just not as young as i used to be!

photoblogging.. and other stuff

1. the irony of me getting set up with flickr is that i have no means of digital photography at this time. my digicam is up in sacramento. I don’t have a camera phone (although I could get a camera attachment for 50 bucks). ok, actually, i can probably get an attachment for $30… or would it be time to suck it up and buy a new digital camera? the 2 megapixel/2x zoom on my elph is really showing its age…

2. QA or PR? which way do i go?

3. life sucks when you are all set to do a windows reinstall and you can’t find your xp disk…

4. does anyone want pixies tickets for the greek theater in berkeley this weekend (sunday 9/26)? i don’t think jer and i are gonna be able to make it. leave a comment if you or someone you know would like to take them off our hands. face value.

5. oh yeah, and we got the star wars box set on dvd yesterday. hee.

6. and sims 2. please pardon me if i am MIA…