December 2008
8 posts
I am trying to improve my Spanish by listening to an instructional Spanish podcast which is quite popular, coffee break Spanish. The problem it is a Scottish show so some times I have a harder time understanding the English than the Spanish.
My Extremely Relevant Day
So I have come to the conclusion that I have one of the most relevant morning commutes in the world. Here goes:
I wake up and get ready with the news on in the background. They are talking about Blagojevich possibly being crazy and look who pops up as a talking head it is DePaul Community Psychology professor Lenny Jason talking about anti social and destructive decision making. I look at my...
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Writing
I need to seriously learn how to write. I am not talking about style, content, formatting none of that (not that I am saying that I have mastered all facets of the like). What I truly need to learn is how to work as a writer. I write reports and surveys everyday and of course I write a great deal as graduate student however I do not feel that I know how to keep myself writing in the same way that...
So I am at work and bored out of my mind. I have decided to try and figure out what my best choice would be if I decided to kill myself in my cube today. This is not a cry for help just an attempt to feel the least bit creative and to problem solve. I have large old school scissors that are really quite sharp, however that kind of defeats the creative time waster this is supposed to be, so lets...
The Quest
So I haven’t actually started posting to it yet but I have created a new blog www.chicagoworldtour.tumblr.com to document my quest to try to eat at a different ethnic restaurant each week until I have eaten at a Chicago restaurant representing every country in the world. This is a testament to 3 things that I consider to be fundamental.
Chicago is truly a global city in which almost all people of...
Biz-ness
So I talked about it last week and now its happening, if all goes as planned I will be filing for my assumed business name this week and as soon as that goes through I will be starting up my webpage and getting my business cards.
This is your last chance to get some input on this, should it be www.communitybased.biz or www.communitybased.us .
In even better news it looks like CBS might already...