mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous
(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)
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The Jury Dance
Last week one of my more soft-spoken co-workers popped into my cube, lowered her voice and said, “Beth, I need to ask you a question and I need you to take it seriously.” My curiosity was piqued; this isn’t someone who would normally seek me out for advice. I mean, I sit over here, she…
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That’s One
My friends occasionally like to hear certain stories over and over again. At least that’s what I tell myself as I see their eyes glazing over. I know deep down that look expresses profound “enjoyment” and is in no way an indication that their minds are racing as they try to think up a polite…
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No Ads in 2012!
Yesterday, I learned something exciting and fun – that there are ads attached to my blog. Who knew? Well, apparently some of you did. You’d think I’d know this, too since it is my blog, but I had no clue. You see, when I view my blog it’s completely clean and ad free. So, huge…
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Blog “Wisdom”
It seems like every time I find a new blog, I also find another author dispensing advice on how to write. It makes me feel like I’ve really let you guys down by not sharing my own bits of writing wisdom. Yet, I applaud you all for continuing to persevere without my keen insights. Still,…
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Aw Shucks!
Jacqueline from Mature Student Hanging In There kindly awarded me with the Kreativ Blogger Award. Jacqueline lives in the highlands of Scotland where I understand it gets to be very cold – the kind of cold that would instantly kill a Texan. She’s also a proud mom, a non-traditional student, a caregiver, a puddle jumper…
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Sketch Writing 101: The Sketch
On Sunday we had a showcase for all of the Sketch 101 writers featuring one of our pieces (we’d written 5 over the course of the class). Throughout the course of the class, I had some lows and some very lows and an extremely dramatic meltdown that I dragged several people and my teacher into (lucky…
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This Sunday at 6:30pm!
Finished your holiday shopping and looking for a way to spend that last $5? Why not come join us tomorrow at 6:30 pm for our Sketch Writing Showcase? We have some truly hilarious and amazingly gifted writers in my class, so you won’t be disappointed (and I’ll be there, too!). Of course, if you have something better to…
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Hanging Out with the 1%
Saturday night I attended a formal dinner to help out a friend who needed a buffer at her company’s Christmas party. She’s fairly new to Austin, doesn’t know a lot of people thanks to her demanding work schedule and because of improv and my overbearing insistence that we become friends; I was the one person…
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Training Sam to be a Killer
Sam, a photo by Big Blue Mess on Flickr. So, yesterday we had to have another frank talk with Sam. As you may recall, we recently had to educate her on her kind’s not so proud history of hunting rabbits and foxes in packs. We tried to explain that it’s not exactly fair when you…
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Iced Tea
It’s been said that Dr. Pepper is the table wine of the South, but if that’s the case (and I’m not arguing against it) then iced tea would have to be the water. Every meal is usually accompanied by a cold glass with its condensation building up and slowly dripping down to form a nice…
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The Season of Giving
There are many wonderful and worthy charitable organizations in desperate need of volunteers and donations so they can continue to move forward with their missions. The ones that are closest to my heart deal with injustice or cruelty to either people or animals. You can tell a lot about a a society by how it…
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Thanksgiving
Sometime after the first week of November our Thanksgiving plans blew up in a strange way. I’d attempt to share the details, but judging by how the story has been received here, you’d only feel compelled to respond with information about the weather or maybe some interesting bits from the news (I had a focus…
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I Give it a Solid “4”
Today we had a fire drill to test the new procedures in our building. Despite most of us not taking the opportunity to view the new video on how to escape a fire, we still managed to calmly mosey over to the correct stairwell. This is very important according to all of our instructions, because…
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Pariah
Maybe it’s because of the sketch class that I’ve started viewing the people around me more and more as characters in a short play. Ok, I’ll be honest; I’ve seen always them that way and the more outrageous among them turn up on the blog. But lately I’ve started casting them into their respective roles…
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Why Won’t I Shut Up?
I know and you know that the quality of the posts lately have been kind of “meh”. I personally blame the quality issue on the people around me. No one is doing anything outrageous. The most exciting interactions I’ve had have been those involving cars and even those are so “meh” they’re hardly worth repeating. …
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