Archive for April, 2007

my beliefs and my friends

Every once in a while I get caught up in the secular humanism that, well, in which I believe. Logic and reason are important to me, and (to paraphrase Penn Gillette from This I believe) I don’t need a God to tell me to be nice to others; I try to be nice to them because […]

Posted by Marie on April 24th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

settling into corporate

I work in the suburbs, in an office building, with a staff larger than I have ever worked with before. I’ve been there since the middle of February, so here’s an update.
Transport: I dislike driving my car to work. It has been 15 years since I regularly drove my car to work (walked in Platteville, took the […]

Posted by Marie on April 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

focusing on my ipod

My friend Kramer has a young French roommate this year who is working towards an advanced degree in Marketing. For one of her classes, she had to organize a focus group — she chose the iPod. I have an iPod, so I was invited over on Saturday night for French food, French wine, and a […]

Posted by Marie on April 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Ian smiles at me

I don’t go to Kara’s *every* Friday night, but if I miss too many, I try to stop by on a weekend and hang out with Ian. A few months ago, we were hanging out on a Sunday afternoon, just sitting in the living room chatting and playing with Ian, and he started giving me these […]

Posted by Marie on April 16th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

it’s all about the journey

Lately, I have been much more chatty with the general public, and that was quite evident on my recent trip to Israel. For some reason, I engaged in long conversations with all of my seat-mates on this trip. This has not been typical of me on my recent spurt of plane flights, don’t know why.
First […]

Posted by Marie on April 8th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »