I love Penelope Trunk.  She’s a riot.  This post in particular pinged for me because of this quote:

Two neighborhoods—Montclair, NJ, and Park Slope, NY—are the bastions of media elite married to banker elite. And it’s a combustible moment there, demonstrated by how we get a lot of reporting about how sad it is for the bankers right now. Who are mostly middle aged.

I’m from Montclair and can’t say that it seemed particularly banking oriented in its population when I was a kid and teenager.  Who knew?

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Penelope Trunk, the Brazen Careerist

The Brazen Careerist talks about why she won’t get plastic surgery even though studies show it helps careers:

… that’s the trouble with all research—when it suggests a change you weren’t already excited about, you decide that it doesn’t apply to you. And I’m no exception.