MIA

so yeah, maybe i have been MIA lately, but moving from austin to chicago was way more time-consuming than i would have guessed.

and i am actually off to SOBcon 08 so i can’t write a ton today either… BUT

i saw that there was a video contest and i decided yesterday that i wanted to enter.  if for no other reason than i have something to talk about with all the “blogging fancy-pants” that will be in attendence.

so here it is.  

(mom, this video screams “i am my mother’s daughter”  i miss and love you so much.)

actually, i miss and love a lot about austin, but that’s a whole other blog that i have been avoiding due to time restratints.

anyway… seriously.  here it is.  i think you can vote on YouTube or something, so if you know how to do that, i’d like that.

grr… can’t get it to upload and gotta run… check it out here

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJieGT-9BPM) 

6 days…

I leave Austin for Chicago in 6 days…. with packing, selling my condo, saying good-bye to friends and tying up loose ends… not a lot of time to blog.

watch out chicago!

this is a little pose i like to call…

“crouching tiger, hidden funologist”

keeping up w the jetsons…

forget the joneses. 

all they care about is money and the accumulation of “stuff”.  and what’s so fun about that? ok, maybe that’s an unfair question to an american audience (and to myself for that matter)… but if i were to keep up w a family, i think i’d rather keep up with the jetsons. 

the jetsons of marketing.

from books to blogs, podcasts to webcasts, linkedin to twitter… the jetsons are all over it!  they are happy, friendly, tech-savvy,  and collaborative… they will network your face off and they are always looking to adopt… and that’s where i come in.

jason, liz, and andy are movers, shakers and overall just “making it happen” in the marketing world. in the words of nelly, our country grammar expert, “lemme in now, lemme in now… bill gates, donald trump, lemme in now”

oh, and let’s not forget that george jetson works a mere 3 hours a day, 3 days a week… granted, that’s still more than timothy ferris suggests, but i have a feeling that work and play are most often one in the same for these folks. and so it shall be with me.

good old wayne dyer

i had 3 interviews in chicago.  they were all with great companies.  they all paid well.  they all could have been strategic career moves… and yet, something wasn’t right.  only half of me was excited… the weenie half.  other half, the brazen half, pouted. 

grrr!  what, jen?  what’s the problem?  isn’t this what you wanted?  to be successful in corporate america?  won’t that be safe? won’t that be comfortable?  won’t that be easiest?

perhaps.  but it’s not enough anymore because…

“there’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.  there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” 
~wayne dyer

oh snap, wayne.  throwing down the challenge… i like it!

after all if i’m going to be a weenie, and play small, i should at least know myself well enough to call it what it is…  at least be honest… but lucky for me i don’t have to have that conversation w myself… i will not “go gentle into that good night.”

i’m no weenie, wayne.  not by a longshot.

i guess i just don’t know what i love…yet.