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Sign Of The Times: 125+ Resumes For An Internship

Posted in I Live Where?!, tagged depressing recession, end of days, jobs, work on Friday, February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

C’ist always gets a good response when we put out a call for interns. 50-75 applications is the norm, and we don’t ask for much. Usually a few sentences, maybe three or four paragraphs, proficiency with GMail – basic stuff. This time, we asked for a 500-word essay, which is a significant hurdle considering our [...]

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Wekas Are New Zealand’s Most Fantastic Creatures

Posted in I Live Where?!, tagged wekas on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This here is the friendly Weka that visited me Carolyn and Jeff as we camped on a beach near Westport. He is the friendliest most inquisitive and downright fantastic creature in New Zealand; even better than the supposedly-extinct Moa that I would like to turn into a burger. Here’s why…

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In Which We Go To The Zoo And Pretend To Be Japanese Tourists

Posted in WHEEEEEE!!!, tagged air new zealand, animals, photos, pictures, zoo on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I went to the zoo a few million weeks ago and finally got around to uploading photos. Wellington’s zoo doesn’t stack up well against its American counterparts, but it had Kangaroos so I was happy. There’s usually at least one animal that can jump up and capture my attention if not my camera, but zoos [...]

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Liveblogging The Flight From NY-Sydney

Posted in WHEEEEEE!!!, tagged carolyn, qf108, the flight, traveling on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Carolyn is somewhere over Fiji and when I wake up tomorrow morning I’ll go get her from the airport. Few people can truly understand the misery she’s currently enduring, so in the interest of sharing, I’ll post my attempt at liveblogging my own flight. It was tapped out on an iPod Touch, so forgive the [...]

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Logan Brown, Here I Come!

Posted in WHEEEEEE!!! on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

They said it couldn’t be done. Remember back at the start of this rag-tag season? We were trading at $1:$1.30. Back then, hope was for people with pounds. No more! We did it, team! The dollar’s now trading at $1:$2. That means it’s time to celebrate by going back to Logan Brown and dropping a [...]

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