Flu-Bar

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Literary, Omnia Vanitas, Random.

Ugh.  I’ve been feeling iffy for days, and I’m supposed to drive to Milwaukee for class today, so I went to bed last night at a reasonable hour for me — 3 AMish — only to wake up at 7:30 with a gnawing feeling
in my guts and a lovely clammy sweat clinging to my skin.  Yep, I’m pretty sure it’s the flu.  I wish I knew who to thank — besides myself for living an oh-so-healthy and regimented life — but instead I’m just going to whimper quietly on my blog.  I made the mistake of looking in the mirror when I got up to rinse the tangy taste of death out of mouth, and I can’t help but wonder why I can’t look like some Bronte heroine when I’m ill.  Instead of a lovely pallor with two spots of painted high color, I look like a corpse with a case of hives.  Woe is me . . . and so it’s shortly off to bed again.

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Lawyer Up

Posted on July 4th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Work, Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Sponsored Posts, Money, Random.

I’ve written about Simmons Jannace & Stagg in the past.  From everything I’ve read, they’re a great law firm for both large and small firms.  But in a recent press release, I learned that in addition to litigation, Simmons Jannace & Stagg also handles financing transactions such as structuring a variety of loans (including real estate, construction, and asset-based loans), asset securitizations, stock purchase sale and leaseback transactions. But what really caught my eye was that their firm provides guidance in choosing a business form, such as organizing corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other legal entities throughout the U.S.  I’ve never really examined whether my business is set up in a way that’s most advantageous to me — as a sole proprietor who doesn’t lay claim to the content she creates, I’ve never had to worry about the legalities of working with companies.  As long as I’m registered and pay my taxes, I figured that was good enough.  But their are a host of advantages to doing things th right way (versus the quick and easy way I chose), so it may be time to re-investigate the structure of my business.  Simmons Jannace & Stagg doesn’t have offices in Chicago, though, so I guess it’s the yellow pages for me . . . ;)

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Bad Poetry

Posted on July 4th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Literary, Omnia Vanitas, Meta-Fors, Poetry, Random.

In my Young Adult Literature class, we’ve been talking about the particularly kind of poetry that adolescents write. My last post reminded me of a poem I wrote about headaches years ago, and I thought I’d share it with you for a laugh. The formatting was better, and I’m couldn’t remember all the words . . . Wish I could crack open my old WordPerfect files, but alas, you’ll just have to make do. :)

Pain

On nights like these I swallow
flakes of bleached bone snow.
A familiar knot of cold forms
until the moon is not
so big
and the stars are not
so bright
and I can see the strings
anyway . . .

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Headache

Posted on July 4th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Personal, Omnia Vanitas.

For the last three days, I’ve had this incredible stress headache that simply won’t dissolve, no matter how many oblivion-inducing pain killers I consume. It has always been my unfortunate fate to receive limited comfort from traditional medications of this sort — Tylenol doesn’t even touch me. When I was about 12, my mother finally realized I wasn’t kidding when I said the “take two and call me in the morning” approach didn’t help. Since then, codeine has been my best friend, but my own awareness of its potential problems keeps me from relying on it too heavily. It’s times like this that I wish desperately for a pool, some place I could just relax and let everything flow away from me for awhile . . . La sigh. How do normal people manage to let everything go? Can I get that in a pill? :)

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Options Trading

Posted on June 29th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Education, Personal, Omnia Vanitas, Current Events, Sponsored Posts, Money, Random.

One of the best things about reading press releases is that it exposes you to topics you might otherwise have never investigated.  For example, I just discovered that options trading refers to contracts which give the trader the option to buy or sell a fixed amount of a certain stock at a specific price within a specific time frame.  I will have to invest more time into studying this type of trading, as I have very little knowledge of the topic.  For example, I don’t really understand how historical option data could be useful to an investor.  Power Options offers a complete suite of educational materials, providing the essential data you need to invest with stock options.  In my opinion, I think this is a great resource for both novice and expert options traders.  As I begin to research the market and decide how best to invest my savings, I will be looking at their site in depth, because knowledge is power.  I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why they’re called “Power Options.” :)

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