Some Mondays are worse than others. Some Mondays, one of your staff goes to the doctor, comes back to work and then tells you – hours later, at the end of the day – that the doctor told her she should stay home for the rest of the week because she has a contagious disease. [...]

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My office’s Halloween festivities are kind of legendary. Some call us spirited, others call us crazy. Either way we totally know how to party, so I was a little nervous as October approached this year and I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do for the big day. I asked Tina and [...]

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After years and years and years of buildup and overcoming all kinds of obstacles, construction is finally underway for a new home for the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center. We celebrated this on the construction site today with a formal groundbreaking ceremony and traditional Hawaiian blessing. I know the people who planned the event put [...]

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Quote of the Day: “Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold… brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in [...]

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I haven’t done a photo spread in a few entries here, so I thought I’d post some photos from a work event I helped coordinate this past week: the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i’s first ever Pau Hana. In the literal translation of the Hawaiian, pau means done/finished, and hana means work, so pau hana [...]

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This morning at the office, I was chatting with my co-worker Tina about the weather, and I happened to make a comment about how, while I was getting into the shower this morning, I heard a loud noise and then all of a sudden, it was as if the sky had opened up and dumped [...]

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I hurt myself at work today while fetching the mail. The way the mail works in our building is, either the postal carrier puts whatever you have in the little box assigned to you as a tenant, or he/she puts a key in your box with a tag on it, and that key opens one [...]

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The CIS Pacific Partnership Program team . . . when we were still a team. Now former employees of the CIS Pacific Partnership Program, after the last contract work day. January 14, 2010 has finally rolled around – the last day of the contract period nationwide for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service Partnership [...]

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