Hi Jacque, Welcome to Dakar!
Six in the morning and I’m standing outside Senegal’s main airport, Dakar International, with my bags at my feet and an ache in my head. Its been seven hours and two Tylenol PM’s since I left Washington DC in a mad rush to make this flight. I am still kinda shocked at the mileage of this week. Monday was a DC workday before I caught an evening flight to California. There I pitched Geekcorps to HP on Tuesday for a $1.2 million. Yes, HP as in Hewlett Packard, and yes, I was nervous as hell.
Read MoreWoohoo, I’m going to West Africa!
I really don’t know how I go this lucky. How I could find a job that (so far) I love so much. Not only do I get to talk technology all day long to people excited about it, but I get to send hard-core geeks on all-expenses paid trips to Joe-cool countries. Yeah, its not hard to convince that nerdy IT guy lurking in the depths of your company’s server room to spend four months in sunny Senegal, talking to other geeks who will hang on his every word and copy his every move.
Read MoreInauguration Party Crashing
It’s January 20, 2005, and we are celebrating the coronation, oops, I mean inauguration of another four years of President George W. Bush. I couldn’t be more unhappy or under whelmed with our 43rd President and I know I am not alone.
Read MoreI’m in Glamour Magazine!
Why Men Do What They Do In Bed? Squeezing your breasts like Play-Doh. Going at it jackhammer-style. What’s up with that stuff, anyway? The most mysterious male sex habits, explained. By Lynn Harris, Senior Contributing Editor, Glamour Magazine – February 2005. I once dated a guy who was obsessed with having a threesome. He made a list of candidates, scouted locations, called me on my cell to run ideas by me – he had the event planned from beginning to end like a Martha Stewart wedding.
Read MoreMouse in the House
Yes, you little brown mouse. Why do you sit there next to me, on the couch back, looking at me so? Do you want me to change the channel? Tired of this movie, eh? Or maybe you’re done reading this week’s Savage Love article in the Washington City Paper. Do you want me to turn the page? How about some cheese? I’ve heard mice like cheese.
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