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noreimerreason a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now Occupy Your Parent's Basement Posted 4 days ago MJ: At the beginning of the project, you hired several career coaches to help you design your resume and guide you in your search. What are your overall thoughts about job coaching? BE: A lot of what was going on with my coaches was a complete and utter waste of time. First, they all want to do a personality test. My first thought was, “I already told you I’m a P.R. person, that’s what I do. So what if I have the personality of an embalmer?” In 1993, 89 of the Fortune top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don’t want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. People take the test in the morning and then take it again in the afternoon and have a new personality. There’s a wonderful recent book, Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul, who just goes through how it’s ridiculous. Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich \| Mother Jones Posted 1 week ago Copyright (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 1 week ago Absorption (Taken with Instagram at Kozmik Zoo) Posted 1 week ago This place (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago True love (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago Mac lounge (Taken with instagram) Posted 1 week ago Trampoline Hall (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Memory! (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Synaptic plasticity (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre) Posted 1 week ago Next »

Showing category "3 Day Novel Contest" (Show all posts) i survived..... Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 13, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest .....barely. In 72 hours, I wrote 67 pages and 11,273 words of a mini-novel called The Regeneration Project. That night I barely slept, suffering from the writerly version of runner's high. The next day, we took all 3 beasts to the vet's for routine checkups, only to discover: Bella had a bad staph infection in her ear All 3 still have fleas Bill tested positive for FeLV But Amy was negative Also I am going to be teaching a course at Langara College this fall, which is very exciting, and I went for t... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 24 and 52 minutes Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, September 5, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 5, 2010 Time: 12:53 am Words: 4,211 Pages: 23 Chapters: 10 Me hour 23 and 49 minutes: Wordle of manuscript at 8:30 pm and 3,000 words yesterday: The workspace: The cats Not Helping: Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 20 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, September 5, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest After 3 go-arounds and much yelling, I am typing this post in Word to copy-paste into my blog. Yola.com is great for my website, blogging software not so much. Actually, it sucks. Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 7:58 pm Words: 3,043 Pages: 17 Chapters: 8 Me earlier today, twirling my hair for inspiration: The lovely Jonathon made a delicious and filling dinner of curried beans, wild rice and sweet peppers, after which I feel poised to write on into the night. My word count is lower than many... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 14 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 2:24 pm Got off to a later start than I planned today. After I posted last night I took to bed with my tea and ended up making some more notes for the novel thing, which has characters but might be more of the experimental type nonsense that occurs when poets write novels. Wait a minute, I started writing stories years and years before I ever wrote a poem. Genre distinctions are for the unimaginative. In any case, I meant to get up at 9 but slept till just after noo... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest - Hour Two Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 2:10 am Words: 1400 Pages: 7 Face: IOGraphica of mouse movements: First 442 words: Whoops, the rules say no web publishing! Took the excerpt down. Don't want to run afoul of the law. Continue reading ... « Back to posts		Blog Archive May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 September 2011 October 2011 Subscribe to this blog This blog by Nikki Reimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.