July 10, 2007 – raincoaster

What: The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: learn to balance your work and your life as a literary professional
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy at gmail dot com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation and dinner
When you love what you do, how do you know when to stop doing it? When you’re the one who sets your work/life boundaries, how do you incorporate and benefit from structure, and should you in the first place? Author, media personality, and life coach Alanna Fero will discuss achieving a prolific and rewarding work/life balance for those in the literary arts.

Your admission includes a dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one glass of pop, wine or beer, and all the literary bon mots you can handle.

Bio: Alanna Fero M.A., L.S.C., is the author of Love Made Visible: Values-Driven Approaches to Work/Life, coming out August 15th. She’s a regular media commentator and former radio host, career/life path and employee engagement expert, and keynote speaker. She is passionate about helping people to do good in the world and do well for themselves at the same time.

7-7:30: meet and mingle
7:30-8: listen and learn
8-whenever: Aussie Rules match: free verse poets vs obsessive proofreaders

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Woohoo, if I were in Second Life, I’d be rich. I’ve gotten virtual hugs (*raises eyebrow*), virtual booze, and virtual cephalopods galore.

As faithful readers of the ol’ raincoaster blog know, we’re all about the cephalopods. Sometimes, however, we are torn: are we more octapussian or more squidilicious? Oh, how to decide, how to decide…

But now, thanks to some intrepid and possibly-mad scientists off Hawaii (their big project is vacuuming up random animals from the deeps) and the hard legwork of Frontier Former Editor, I can have the best of both worlds! Presenting the Squidoctopus/Octosquid! Ain’t she a beauty?

It’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s … a mystery from the deep.

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

The specimen was found caught in a filter in one of Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority’s deep-sea water pipelines last week. The pipeline, which runs 3,000 feet deep, sucks up cold, deep-sea water for the tenants of the natural energy lab…“It’s a beautiful squid. It’s a gorgeous ruby red color,” Kelley said. “We really enjoy these little mysteries that come up.”

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