In the midst of all this unsettling economic news, Karen is encouraging us to engage in some retail therapy in this Weekend Assignment. Weekend Assignment #237: A long-lost relative dies and leaves you $10,000. But there’s a catch: the will states that it cannot be saved, invested, given to charity or used to pay bills. You’ve got a week to spend it all. (Anything left over will be used to buy tiny wheelchairs for injured […]
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Weekend Assignment #236: 4th Quarter Projections
You may or may not know that Karen Funk Blocher of Outpost Mâvarin, a/k/a “she who giveth the Weekend Assignments,” is another blogging accountant. (Curiously, none of the blogging accountants I know actually blogs about accounting…) Our profession has inspired this assignment’s title, “Fourth Quarter Projections.” Weekend Assignment #236: We’re now in the fourth quarter of the year, the time when (if they’re not on a different fiscal year) companies have their last chance to […]
Weekend Assignment #234: It’s a good thing
This week, Karen poses a pretty simple question – perhaps deceptively simple: Weekend Assignment #234: Tell me one good thing about the area where you live (city, town, or whatever). It doesn’t have to be the best thing, just something that’s in the plus column for you. Extra Credit: How could that good thing be even better? It’s easiest to tell people I live in “Southern California” or “the LA area” without being overly specific. […]
Weekend Assignment #233: (Virtual) New Toys
Karen has been playing with some new online toys lately, and she was wondering whether we might be too when she posed the question for this Weekend Assignment. Weekend Assignment #233: The online world is constantly evolving, to the point where I’m surprised I’m not reading about Web 3.0 by now. Google’s service Blogger is just one example of an online resource that’s been rolling out new features and gadgets recently. Are there any new […]
Weekend Assignment #232: How’s My Driving?
This week, Karen brings up a topic near and dear to a Southern Californian’s heart: Weekend Assignment #232: It’s been said that as many as 80% of people who drive consider themselves to be “above average” drivers. Since this is statistically impossible, some of us are clearly overestimating ourselves. Be honest: how are your driving skills? If you drive, what are your strengths and weaknesses? If you don’t drive, what drives your decision not to […]
Weekend Assignment #231: Candidates With a Difference
This week, Karen poses a very timely question: Weekend Assignment #231: Over the years we’ve had a number of oddball candidates for public office, from cartoon characters to a live pig, from comedians to TV stars to an ex-wrestler. But it’s only in recent years that a candidate who doesn’t fit the usual profile can run for office and actually expect to win. Who is the most unusual political candidate you have ever supported, either […]
Weekend Assignment #230: Olympic ceremony
As the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games approached this weekend, Karen asked: Weekend Assignment #230: Have you been watching the Olympics? If so, what have you particularly enjoyed? If not, then what, if anything, would entice you to watch? Extra Credit: Is there a sport not in the Olympics that ought to be there? I think this is the first time in several (leap) years I’ve watched very little of the Olympics on […]
Weekend Assignment #229: What’s in a (nick)name?
This week’s question from Karen: Weekend Assignment #229: Tell us about a nickname – yours, or someone else’s. Did you come up with it, or was it bestowed by someone else? Is it still in use? And most of all, has it benefited the nicknamed person, or caused them grief, or both? Extra Credit: Have you ever tried for a nickname that just didn’t take off? Karen notes in her own Assignment that “(I came […]
Weekend Assignment #227: Tell me something good
This week, Karen says: It seems as though bad news is coming at us from all directions at the moment, including from this house and this blog. (She and her husband have just had to say goodbye to a beloved four-legged family member, but they are moving on.) Let’s try to balance things about a bit: Weekend Assignment #227: There must be something positive happening in your life right now (I hope!). Tell us the […]
Weekend Assignment #226: A musical interlude of sorts, or “Jukebox Brain”
This week, Karen asks the musical question: Weekend Assignment #226: Is there a song that you’re particularly enjoying at the moment, that’s on heavy rotation on your iPod, the CD player in your car, or just in your head? If so, what is it? If not, what was the last song you were really into? Extra Credit: What song, if any, has been playing in your head today, and you really wish it would stop […]
Weekend Assignment #225: You can’t spell “routine” without “rut
This week, Karen says: “Okay, this one is more participatory than most Weekend Assignments. I’m not just asking you to write something; I’m asking you to do something. Are you up to the challenge?” Weekend Assignment #225: What are you going to do this weekend (or on your next day off) that’s different from what you usually do? Make plans to break out of your usual routine, and tell us what they are. Extra Credit: […]
Weekend Assignment #224: Bad Idea
The Weekend Assignment is posted each Friday at Outpost Mâvarin; a roundup of responses goes up the following Thursday, so if you’d like to join in, you’ve still got some time. Karen says: Don’t worry if you don’t get your entry in by the end of the weekend. It’s called the Weekend Assignment because John Scalzi originally designed it to give folks something to write on weekends, but times have changed since then. Now the […]
