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Elsewhere Posting…

• Where there’s smoke, there’s Marty… Chicken-singeing adventures in Austin. Oh my.
• Sunk Cost Paradox @ Virtual Magpie. Musings inspired by an interesting realtor encounter at Cloud Nine. Ha!
• Youngstown in November @ Virtual Magpie. Business trip!! Eek!
• Drive Space Dreams @ Virtual Magpie. The line between my computer and my self is so grey and fuzzy, really…

Reading…

• Sugar Blues, William Dufty. Holy SHIT. This is an AWESOME book.
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’ve got this on hold at the moment because Sugar Blues is fascinating me. But Sugar Blues is actually a pretty quick read (you wouldn’t know it from my updates, ha ha) so I should be back with Michael Pollan soon.

Other Items of Interest…

• This excites me—but hasn’t Stephen Colbert always excited me? This is really fantastic.
• Aaaaaaaa!! Turtles! This woman made awesome, awesome, awesome TMNT cupcakes for her son. Oh my goodness! Glee!
• Pakleds, lizards. Marty had an eventful day. :P
• The Oakland blog has a great post up about R. Jason van Hoose and awesome displays in Youngstown this week. Also, his website is here—dude. Really cool stuff.

Elsewhere Posting…

• Adorable card from Anne. I love getting fantastic cards for no reason. (Hint!)
• Did I just use the word paradigm… again? Well, it’s about music this time. ;}
• Cloud Nine is blogging—and I get to introduce us!

Reading…

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Reading about industrial organic, and getting shivers (or shudders). So many people had mentioned this book before I picked it up. It really is living up to recommendations.
• Sugar Blues, William Dufty. This… is really interesting. A friend in Seattle suggested it and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but wow. Sugar. Scary. (And it makes this a little more alarming than you might initially expect.)

Other Items of Interest…

• It’s not my fault your soap doesn’t work, Marty…
• Kyeli & Pace Smith both have new blogs! Eek! Go read the awesomeness!
• Airborne, ginger and apple cider vinegar have been my remedies of choice for this week’s sinus infection—and it’s a doozy! I did dose my tea with whisky early on, but these others have really kept me going (especially the ginger, holy cow). I think the vinegar might possibly work almost as well as the whisky, and I can stay sober. (Mixed blessing?) From now on I will always keep fresh ginger and apple cider vinegar in my kitchen. Dude.
• Why do we look for the worst in people? What makes that so appetizing? Why don’t we look for the strengths? Why don’t we look at people for their talents? Their cleverness, their thoughtfulness, their brilliance?

Elsewhere Posting…

• Intangibles. Brooke really gives me brain food, and I can use that food to change my brain… (So can you!)
• Rhuban Glas. YouTube video of Gwawr Edwards, she is fantastic!
• Welsh Cheddar. What?! You can’t pass up a post about cheese!!

Reading…

• Specials. Scott Westerfield, third book in the trilogy. Finished early in the AM, last night. And, shit! I’m all out of fiction! (Although with three of those in a row? I think I can take a break. They were awesome.)
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’m still working on this one. I finished the “corn” section but I’m thinking about rereading it to absorb more of the bits and pieces… it’s definitely on my mind lately. Corn corn corn!

Other Items of Interest…

• Yesterday was Ragen’s birthday! Go buy her totally awesome book!
• NSA’s Lucky Break: From Boing Boing—this is alarming, but interesting.

That’s all for now. Have you smiled at someone yet today? GO SMILE!

Not a lot to aggregate this week, ‘cause I’ve been working like a dog, but plenty to report upon!

Elsewhere…

• Virtual Magpie: Cloud Nine Musings. Directionless rambling about awesomeness. New things happening, feeling awesome about meetings and arrangements, wondering who else loves their job this much. G’ness.
• Virtual Magpie: Planting Seeds. Information on the connection paradigm! This is so cool! If you only read one thing today, read the thing I link to from this post…

Reading…

• Pretties. Scott Westerfield, second book in the trilogy. I have the next book too (all borrowed from Vixen) so I am scooting through these. I did say I wanted fiction…
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan, incredibly engaging. This guy is… I don’t know. I mean, he certainly seized an opportunity, but he does it with a lot of flair.

This Week, I…

• Got rained on at Chuy’s. Marty and I went Saturday, and sat outside. It was nice and cool, and there weren’t a lot of people crowded outside—probably because of the threatening rain, ha ha. We got drizzled on, but Marty valiantly continued to eat his Elvis Presley Memorial. Yeah, like rain is going to stop him.
• Had awesome, awesome meetings. Monday especially was a crazy day for meetings—one with Ragen and then a general Cloud Nine “excitement” meeting (very accurately named). Monday was a blast, dude.
• Had friends over for yoga! Kiki happened to be in town, so Robert brought her along. Even on about five hours of sleep, it was really enjoyable and excellent.
• Saw Sharks 3D at the IMAX! Last night Marty and I met Vixen downtown and we put on totally goofy 3D glasses and learned about sharkies! It was pretty great, actually.
• Ate at Jimmy John’s. Omg! I was worried about having to eat a sandwich but in honor of Atkins addicts they have this thing called an unwich—wrapped in lettuce instead of bread! It was surprisingly yummy (if a little messy).
• Made a ridiculous sundae at Amy’s. Kahlua ice cream, hot fudge, marshmallows, reese cups and heath bar. No, I didn’t eat all of it. But it was delicious for the first ten or fifteen bites…

I am all over the place, man. Once upon a time, I had a Status Page that solved that problem, but even the Status Page isn’t quite cutting it these days. (Noticed any updates lately? Nope, me neither!) So I’m going to start making Information Dissemination posts every week—dissemination collections, as it were. We’ll see if this makes a difference! Let me know what ya’ll think. ;}

Elsewhere Posts…

• Green: So it’s come down to this—posting in Marty’s blog, too. I have no shame.
• On a Stick: Visibility is a real riot, sometimes. A Virtual Magpie post about fried potatoes.
• Marge Adler and Forbidden Broadway: Marge Adler is musical-directing Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit through December 2nd, and it looks awesome. And what can I do when something is awesome, but blog about it?

New Places…

• Megan Elizabeth Morris @ SquidWho: I built my own SquidWho page, because Seth told me to. (And I, as we know, am a Seth fangirl drone. Shameful.) Definitely not finished yet, but coming along!
• worldmegan @ Squidoo: And here are things I am interested in! I really like this nifty Squidoo thing. But also—not finished, either. Hmmm.
• Cloud Nine @ Squidoo: Cloud Nine Staffing has a new Squidoo page. I helped!

Notable Reading Material…

• Uglies: Scott Westerfield. Finished yesterday, surprisingly fantastic and awesome!
• Free Prize Inside!: This book has started me on a long, gleeful journey full of Seth Godin reading material. Definitely recommended.

This gets me sort of up to date, at least to start! I’ll post another on Friday to collect items between now and then, and onward as seems appropriate. This is also probably an awesome way to post links I don’t have time to write about. I think we should call this blog “Megan on the Learning Curve”...