Every Thursday, I play beach volleyball at urban rec on a work team - they really put the urban into it, as it is basically an empty lot that they’ve trucked sand to. We really aren’t that good, but we have tons of fun and down a couple of drinks. I had to cut this week short though because my foot started killing me. I was on crutches till Monday with a fracture in my foot. It was feeling a lot better, but still sore - I am now realizing that playing volleyball is far from the smartest move I’ve made today.

On a completely unrelated note, I wanted to share with you a really weird quirk Nadia and I have at work. We have a list of words. Magma Words - words that we love - and Verboten Words - words that we hate. So I thought I’d share them with you.

In case you can’t read the picture:

Magma Words

• Attention Currency
• and How!
• Boutique Agency
• Aquatical
• Douchebag
• Emerging Media
• uber
• Superfluously
• Hyperbole
• Pithy
• Tactile
• Googlewhack
• Instantaneous
• Summer
• NKOTB

Verboten Words

• Synergy
• Whatnot
• Marqui
• Drunkorexia
• Stymie

So do you have any words that you love or hate? Let me know and if they’re really good they may make it onto my list.

Twitter this morning seemed to be all about what people were going to wear today given today’s awesome weather. I chipped my two cents in an let everyone know what I’d donned for the day. It was suggested to me that I needed more than just a description - as 140 characters does not do a good outfit justice. So to my twitterati peeps - I will comply. Here is my outfit today. The flip flops are as a result of my still somewhat broken foot - which is healing nicely. I should definitely be ready for Survivor Bootcamp next month.

*I know the pic is kinda dark, but it was taken quickly with my iphone

And yes I am wearing my sunglasses inside and no I am not that cool - I just wanted to give you the whole outfit.

Well last week was crazy topped off with the best Friday night I’ve had in a really long time. The week started off with 6am Hot Yoga at West Coast Hot Yoga. It is definitely a lot harder than it looks and really gave me a hard time - especially when I find out later that I’ve got a fractured foot and am now on crutches:(. Tuesday ended with an excellent Third Tuesday featuring Darren Barefoot giving an excellent presentation on blogger outreach. If you ever have the chance to see Darren speak take it - I’ve seen him a couple of times now and each time he’s been great.

Wednesday afternoon/evening saw me at 3 events. We started the afternoon off at Republic for the TechVibes start up career fair. Amielle, a good friend of mine, was there representing her new start up Tagga, they are still in stealth pre-launch mode, but expect to hear a lot more of them soon. I then headed over to the VidFest/VIGS Opening Reception at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It was a great mix of marketers, techies, and video game people. The venue was excellent for the party. It was then back to Republic for Launch Party 4. The evening was a bit quieter than the previous ones, but given the event packed week we had in Vancouver, it is understandable. LP4 had a great group and it was great to see everyone at the events- Nadia, Amielle, Raul, Bradley, Rebecca, John, Tod, Alexa, Rastin, Arash, Monica, Phillip, Vincent, and there are many more that I’m sure I forgot (if I’ve left you off, let me know and I’ll add you:).

Thursday saw partner events going on at Granville Island. The VidFest IPF and Cossette Convergence 2008. I was in meetings all day with VidFest and unfortunately unable to see the great speaker line up at Convergence - Omar make sure that they don’t overlap next year so I can attend both:). After the day of meetings the happy hour was much appreciated. There we chatted with the people that we met all day and got some cross over from the Convergence people. We ended the evening at the new gastown Restaurant Revel. It was really good and great to chat with the awesome girls from Cambrian House a bit more and talk with Omar about twitter and blogger outreach.
Friday saw the final day of VidFest. Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief, WIRED gave an excellent keynote speech on The Economics of Free. As someone who did a double major with Economics occupying half of it, I really found the topic fascinating. The rest of the day was filled with great speakers and sessions. The only downside was that they didn’t feed us. So Dustin, Colleen, Nadia, and I headed over to the pub and grabbed a quick lunch (thanks for grabbing the tab Dustin - you were my hero all day on Friday:).

Photo Credit: Dustin Sacks Silly Soft Games

We ended the week at the New Media BC PopVox Awards at the Hanger in the Great Northern Way Campus. Invoke was up for the People’s Choice 2008 Award for Best User Generated Content or Crowdsourced Content Site for memelabs.com - and we WON. It was fabulous. Nadia and I had an amazing time and were beyond ecstatic at the honour of winning. We were floating all night (the alcohol may have helped with that as well). I think when we were announced the winners Nadia and I cheered like little school girls. It was AWESOME!! I’m down for winning awards any day. I’ll have pics up of the event as soon as Colleen comes over and fixes my word press for me - for some reason it won’t let me insert images into the post. Thank goodness for techie friends:)
I’ve also covered the awards ceremony at Invoke and meme.

Photo Credit: Phillip Jeffery - Fade to Play

Hey all. Welcome to my first personal blog. I’ve blogged for work now for a couple years and have meant to do this for just about as long. I’d like to give a huge thanks to Colleen Coplick for helping me set it up and Nadia Nascimento for helping me come up the the domain name. I wanted Lather Rinse Repeat, but that was obviously taken and really I think that this is much better.

I’ll write about lots of different things and am not exactly sure if there will be a theme to what I write, I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Thanks for visiting me and I hope you come back soon:)

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