HP and done
 

Should we comment instead on her ploy to spy on board members? (493 male CEOs are kicking themselvs for not coming up with that plan . . .)

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2. Now I just herd cats. Before, I had to do hateful lawyering AND herd cats, but the herding part wasn't really my job so I got penalized for doing it, but if I didn't things got really fucked. So now I'm in charge of cat-herding.

Ok, I have completely lost my mind
 

I have been gently informed via IM that I have no idea what is going on. I apologize globally.

Ok, I have completely lost my mind
 

What is going on? I think I don't know either.

Ok, I have completely lost my mind
 

I have to stop being such an eager-to-please lawyer type. I made one tiny mistake and fell on my fucking sword. She's only a Chairman, not also a CEO.

(I have to admit, I did think Carly Fiorina lost her looks rather dramatically in the past year.)

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except that he omitted teh part on how you identify what it is you love (and that pays money).

Ok, I have completely lost my mind
 

shouldn't you be thinking lunch? Today Polish. Duck blood soup, Keilbasa and stuffed cabbage.

HP and done
 

Don't cry for her - I understand Bush is already courting her for a soon-to-be available cabinet post.

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good point.

I suppose I thought it was more user-friendly because it appeared fueled by passion and not bitterness. Not that I think Sebby is a bitter person at all -- just sometimes some of his rants are a little.

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I was hoping that was in installment #2.

HP and done
 

Yes. You get what you give.

Frankie Andreu: I love EPO
 

Here is why I can't stand Armstrong:

"Multiple attempts to interview Armstrong for this article — through his lawyers, his agent and a spokesman — were unsuccessful. His agent, Bill Stapleton, wrote in an e-mail message yesterday that Armstrong would not comment because he was attending a meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel in Minneapolis."

Whenever questions arise about his doping, he wraps himself in the cloak of cancer fighter. In every interview I've seen in the past few years, this has been his approach.

"Lance, additional allegations have been brought against you concerning your use of performance enhancing drugs. Can you address these new concerns?"

"As a cancer survivor, there isn't much I can say, except to tell all those kids out there to keep fighting."

Right. Okay, Lance. He's full of shit.

TM

Guaranteed Contracts
 

Question: Is anyone in this country going to actually be able to watch both games? The first game was well into the second half when I got home (admittedly I had a class to go to that didn't get out until 7:15) and I had to go to bed well before the end of the second game (admittedly I had a 5:30 class to go to this morning).

Hell, the first game started well before the end of business on the West Coast. Seems sort of weird that the monday night game isn't going to be watched by the whole country.

Guaranteed Contracts
 

Are you in the time machine again? It's only this week.

I think they did it to give ESPN 17 games, since there's no MNF the last week of the season. (All is quiet on New Year's Day)

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To one partner: "This firm's billing requirements are fucking asinine." That one wasn't appreciated.



On the day that an associate was let go (when tensions were extremely high):

Partner: "Can you do that for me by next Friday?"
Coltrane: "Yes. Assuming I haven't been fired."
Partner: "What does that mean?"
Coltrane: "I don't know what that means."

Guaranteed Contracts
 

Ah... I was asking someone about it this morning and they assured me it was every week. I felt sort of bad about it, because that meant 32 Monday Night games the Texans aren't involved in, not 16.

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Why was the other associate booted, I mean, "let go"?

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Oooh, how delightfully aggressively passively aggressive!!!

Guaranteed Contracts
 

The thing to get worked up about is the games on the NFL network, that plenty of cable systems don't carry.

Cool.
 

Maybe I should scroll before posting, but the disadvantage is that many schools with early admission require students to make a binding commitment before they have a chance to compare financial aid offers from several different schools. Unless your family has the means to foot the whole cost (or the combination of your credentials & family poverty virtually guarantee that any school you choose will give you a free ride), you can't afford to take the chance.

GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
 

Well, you did talk about it here. And I voted! (Process of elimination and all that.:D )

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I know. I'm forced to passively mitigate my initial aggressiveness.

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He had very nice hair.

For my friend Hotel rooms in sf?
 

Not sure If I am allowed to post this but this is for one of my friends in San Jose. If interested, please pm me.

Hello All,

I have a small block of rooms that is NOT filling up at the Hilton SF Financial District for the nights of October 12, 13, and 14. If you or anyone you know might be in need of a room in SF anytime during this period, please direct them to me and I’d be more than happy to make their reservation. Room rate is $189, which is outstanding for SF! Hotel located near North Beach/Chinatown and underwent complete renovation earlier this year.

Frankie Andreu: I love EPO
 

Thing is, what's he going to do, tell the truth?

"Thanks Nike et al, but I don't want that $10M plus a year anymore, I think I will blow up my brand. Bye!"

That said, other than the cult of St. Lance, I don't think this is a big deal (the doping), although I know you won't agree, in that in cycling, unlike baseball for comparison, its an even playing field, i.e. they are all doping.

GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
 

Um, no, I didn't talk about it here. Someone did, and I'm not too happy about that. I realize I walk a fine line sometimes, but I don't think I stepped over it this time.

Edited to note: I see where the confusion is coming from, and yes, I did talk about it initially here. I didn't think it was going to go anywhere and when it did, I shut the hell up. But it is my silliness for saying anything about it in the first place. So maybe we should all just be quiet and move on. It's really only one person that I don't trust.

And sorry for causing confusion.

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you need to start acting like a partner. today, right now, go back stab another associate- someone who sees you as a friend would be best.

start only talking to Partners- get shitty to the staff, when you're at the urinal and there are only associates there DO NOT FLUSH, if a partner is there, flush of course.

Get more and more negative, next time they fire someone, offer to pick up his work "because you've been fixing it for the last few years anyway....I can't believe you didn't boot his ass a year ago, he's a useless fuck..." Never one good word about any other associate. Not one.

Within a year the partnership will realize you are someone they need to make the "partner in charge of telling people they're fired"- you'll be recognized for your thick skin-

side benefit? once you're the partner who fires people even senior partners will avoid you- you never know when your time has come, and the only thing they know for sure is the word will come from Coltrane.

Pretty soon it'll be "come in early, stay late and take an 8 hour lunch." good luck!

Cool.
 

how do you make a binding commitment? huge deposit?

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It's weird watching you talk to Sebby Jr. It's like Ty@50 sending messages to Ty. Time machine, indeed!

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FWIW, Ty@50 regrets almost everything Ty has posted on the PB, but is proud of the flying carpet joke made earlier today.

Cool.
 

Where were you in the 80s? The colleges all talk.

As I noted earlier, Fugee's point is valid, but not applicable to Harvard, which does not require a commitment.

Frankie Andreu: I love EPO
 

Actually, I think the Cat 1s are doping these days too. At least the good ones.

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Merde. That post is like looking in a mirror.....run Coltrane, run while you can........

Cool.
 

I was a disadvantage kid, I don't know your rich guy shit. Plus with my grades I sure as shit wasn't assuming anywhere would let me in.

I say to Harvard "You let me in I'll come there." then I apply to SE Idaho State, breaking my promise to Harvard to only apply to Harvard.

I get into Harvard, and commit. 6 months later SEIS offers me a full ride. I take it, tell Harvard sorry. what would prevent me from doing this?

the colleges talk? you mean Harvard would tell every other school that I'm committed so they shouldn't look at my application?

A Modest Proposal
 

I would take you up on this as I am pretty confident Celtic will get spanked. But I am still smarting from my only-recently-satisfied World Cup debt. More importantly, I will be unable to catch the game tomorrow.

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Part of working in a law firm on *any* level is eating that shit sandwich every single damn day. We all have to do it and we all have financial obligations---what keeps us all sane is having a plan to figure out in the future what you want to do and where you want to be at and not let this J-O-B define who you are. And part of that is biting your tounge and kissing ass if necessary on occasion which sucks but it is what it is my fwend. We all have to cater to the partners and the client and stress and hype out. it is just the way it is but it is a means to an end. It puts food on the table and keeps you off the street. the only wayyy to look at it I've worked in law firms for 10 years. onlyyy way to look at it. hang in there budddy

Frankie Andreu: I love EPO
 

A few years back when I was in Mexico, I was in a store where you could buy EPO OTC, iykwim. If I had still been a Cat 1 at that point I can't say for certain whether or not a sale would have been made.

As it was I just bought a couple of dozen bottles of viagra. It was going to be a long weekend, npi [wink wink, nudge nudge]

Cool.
 

I'm not sure because I naively made my college decision based on seeing its Christmas concert in 6th grade and deciding I wanted to sing in it when I went to college.

However, I would guess that for a process to be considered binding, either a bunch of money is involved or else the elite schools agree not to admit a student who made an early admission commitment to another school.

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I ran into a friend of mine at a gallery opening a few nights ago. I hadn't seen him in awhile, not since the baby was born. He stays home all day with the kid and his wife works. The downside is that he can't get as much of his artwork done these days. Upside is the kid just got his first box of crayons, so maybe he'll get a collaborator!

Frankie Andreu: I love EPO
 

Even in the remote, lonely world of Minnesota road bike racing, there are certain teams with less-than-pure reputations. But as the Chequamegon approaches this weekend, I can proudly say that on race day, I will be high on life and America, and nothing more. Of course, I'm a Cat 6, but still...............