The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives

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.

Alanna FeroBio: 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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All I want for my birthday

In answer to Stiletto‘s inquiry, all I want for my birthday is this:

Well, except for the sock on the jaw. Wouldn’t your life be just intrinsically cooler if everything you said was witty and subtitled, even if it was just in English?

Ah, but who will be my Nicky?

Anyway, that’s what I want, along with dinner at Delilah’s or yeah, maybe Connor Butler (gotta luv a six foot punk rock blond teddybear chef who greets you with “HEY WOW RAINCOASTER’S HERE!!! I mean he actually calls me raincoaster), and a nice bottle of Bombay Sapphire, Plymouth, or the now-discontinued and hence rare Malacca gin from Tanqueray. Oh, and a bottle of Campari and a bottle of Cinzano red vermouth, because those Negronis aren’t gonna make themselves, baby!

That’s what I want.

What I’ll probably get is something more like this:

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quiz: what are your odds of surviving a zombie apocalypse?

It’s best to know ahead of time and seek the proper training, don’t you think? One can’t be too careful when it comes to zombies.

Also, yes, I am being lazy today. After this past week, I have a gabillion things to catch up on so you shouldn’t expect anything original from me for a day or so. Quizzes, YouTubes, Random Thoughts. And Zombies. We’re all about the zombies lately.

zombie apocalypse

Stolen from OpenChannel in the comments on max’s celluloid blonde blog.

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Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan

Something to do with seeing Ronnie Corbett as Hagrid, perhaps? Or maybe the fact that THIS Snape is even sexier than the real one!

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THIS is Sparta?

Yep, danged overqualified immigrants. We’re in ur office, kleenin ur mess.

caution THIS is SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA

Stolen from Neatorama

 

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