Then in July Fitpacking visited New York State for the Adirondack High Peaks backpacking adventure. If you would like to vicariously re-live our excursion without having to deal with the rain, bugs, or body odors, you can view some of the pictures here, courtesy Steve Liljestrand: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=a0popgn.bcpmenfv&x=0&y=f73tu5&localeid=en_US.
And if you’re one of those obsessively voyeuristic people who don’t mind giving up any semblance of privacy in order to see pictures of strangers that were uploaded to a social network, why not check out (and sign up to be a fan of) the Fitpacking Facebook page? http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Hull-MA/Fitpacking/17187844623?ref=s. Photos from several past trips are available there.
John Chisholm’s transcendent influence on international equity markets continues its ubiquity, as evidenced by the global investment community begging him to share his much sought-after financial insights. Check out his most recent CNBC interview here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25733338?__source=RSS*tag*&par=RSS
Hiring alert! Cristina Tcheyan, a recent Master’s Degree recipient from the University of California at Davis, is seeking a position in Business Development with a technology start-up. She is available now, so this is your opportunity to snatch her away from the competition. What does she offer? Well, why don’t you suffer through a few of her credentials listed below to see if your company can profit obscenely by exploiting her vast potential?
Cristina Tcheyan is an extremely multi-disciplined self-starter with a strong combination of academic and scientific accomplishments. She is a winner of a National Science Foundation award, a Department of Energy research fellowship, multiple business plan competitions at the MBA level, and various educational scholarships. Cristina is also a published author, accomplished artist, oil, and mural painter, and is bilingual with extensive international travel.
Interest piqued? cris.tcheyan@gmail.com
Other June happenings… I was in an auto accident -- rear ended. While everyone was OK, the insurance company and body shop ended up being really, really OK … I donated my 61st pint of blood yesterday … was sick with a summer cold for a week and a half … did some cat sitting and also some dog sitting for an 8 lb. Chihuahua … I even had a birthday (or 2).
The now 10-year-old Air Sickness Bag Museum continues to amuse and amaze, but mostly neither. However, it does foster occasional curiosity around the web. In what seems to be an odd route to fame for bloggers trying to be taken seriously as budding journalists, bag coverage has appeared in various content starved blogs. Here are three recent examples: http://familytoyblog.com/2008/07/08/odds-ends-collecting-the-unusual/ http://www.blissfullydomestic.com/2008/07/yesterday-i-wro.html http://www.8bitocean.com/2008/08/vomit-in-style-with-vanity-vom-bags.html
Amanda Gilbert, who I met while walking (hiking actually), is not-so-ironically going to walk 60 miles in 3 days to help combat breast cancer. Please support her here: http://08.the3day.org/site/TR/Walk/PhiladelphiaEvent?px=2496950&pg=personal&fr_id=1186&et=A-Z0DDvLmWFdfh9ISI9-HQ..&s_tafId=6022, unless of course you’re some horrible sicko that supports breast cancer, that is.
I was planning to use this forum to spout unbelievably insightful commentary about the Red Hat Society, but the Red Hatters will have to wait ‘til next time as they have been usurped by the ensuing Olympic gleanings.
- Brief exposure to Olympic events that few even realize exist, such as synchronized diving, can transform casual onlookers into instant technical experts.
- Every time I see a middle aged male coaching women’s gymnastics, I wonder if he has a predilection for pedophilia.
- You will never see a televised Olympic event that the USA doesn’t stand a chance of winning.
- Even Olympic athletes that are automatically marginalized as inferior by TV coverage because they finish last, work out harder and longer every single day of their lives than most of us ever do on any one day of our lives.
- Even if they shave their bodies to reduce friction, the majority of Olympic athletes wear jewelry. It can’t possibly help their performances, and it’s not like those earrings are eye-catchingly stylish or anything.
- All it really takes to have a successful career interviewing Olympic medal winners, is to repeatedly ask the unanswerable question, “What does this victory mean to you?”
- The only possible way to congratulate your teammates is with a High-5 or a hug, and this obligation must be carried out no matter what the actual outcome of the event is.
- Some NBC executive must have an erotic obsession with Michael Phelps’ mother. She is given orders of magnitude more screen time than almost any of the actual athletes, even if they are capable of swimming a scant hundredth of a second slower than her son.
- An Olympic Track and Field event consisting of running backwards, crawling, skipping, and crab walking is no more absurd than any swimming medley. If the idea is to get from here to there as quickly as possible, why constrain the way people do it?
- You can no longer find tangy orange colored French dressing at any restaurant. (OK, this has nothing to do with the Olympics).
Finally, on a serious note, I am wishing for Scott Shangraw’s safe and rapid return from Iraq. In his most recent deployment only a few months ago, he is often placed in the line of fire and he has witnessed people in his contingent being killed and others being wounded. As the war drags on, it’s easy to forget the sacrifice Scott and others like him are making, so I wanted to mention it lest you may have forgotten.
