Tue, Aug 25 2009 by Vanessa.

Today is a weird day.  All my stuff is gone.  The latest course that I agreed to teach is ending and students are saying good-bye and farewell.  It’s sunny and nice outside, of course a bit humid but OK.  Something just feels different.  I guess it feels like we’re moving which is the point but it’s still different. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sat, Aug 01 2009 by Vanessa.

So life is testing me again.  At least I think that’s what’s going on.  Breaking free from the corporate world wasn’t exactly easy.  It was 2 years and a few months ago that I left.  Adios!  Bye bye.  I knew life would provide something better.  Something more fulfilling.  Even if my immediate future was not 100% perfect, it would be better.  And it has been.  I have flexibility to structure each day as I please.  Each day provides a different experience.  I got so tired of the same routine day in and day out, going to the office.  During the last couple of years I’ve tested out various work arrangements including location, number of hours worked per day, number of days I work per week, computing platforms and technologies designed to make all aspects of my life easier.  But now it has happened.  The day has come when my nice little world has been disrupted.  The corporate world, gasp!, has started to creep and crawl its slimy way back into my life.  Read the rest of this entry »

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