Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    Barb is the victim of "downsizing".  If you contact me by mail I can
    give you her phone number.  She is coming for the party and will be
    staying with me.
    
    She's doing ok--hanging in there!
    
    Kim

    Kim - 
    
    Thank you!  I'm so glad somebody knew what had happened but really
    shocked to hear that Barb isn't here anymore.
    
    Nanci 

        See also note 352.18.
        
        Dan

    Hi, 
    
    As I will not be able to do this IN PERSON, please give Barbara 
    lots of hugs from Irene  (who doesn't ever get to go to Salt Lake much
    anymore...),
    
    /s/valentine_dinner_buddy

    Oh, well....whine....if you insist.....gad!  you *know* how I hate
    giving hugs!
    
    E 

    I will personally deliver all hugs to Barb at approximately 3:50
    pm. EST when I pick her up at Logan Airport on Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!11
    
    
    
    Kim

    Barb sent me a letter, and here are some excerpts (with her permission)
    
    AT the moment, I'm still working at Career Pro doing career counseling,
    and writing resumes.  My weekly base salary amounts to $4.38 per hour
    with virtually n o commissions, but they have offered me a leashold on
    the office, so things might get better.  What that means is that for a 
    weekly fee to the corporate office, I will, forall intents and purposes
    own this business.  If I can negotioate the fee down to something more
    reasonable, I'll go for it.  I *know* I can build the business up to
    something decent with a living wage that could actually support the
    kids (what an idea!).  I should know by sometime next week if it's
    going to fly, so ship good thoughts my way.  Speaking of resumes...
    I get some *real* interesting clients in here.  Thus far, I've done
    resumes for clients ranging from a janitor to a woman minister
    "awaiting a call".  I did one for a snowboarder seeking a sponsor, a
    ballet dancer who does commercials, a letter to potential birth mothers
    from a couple who wants to adopt, an actor who has been hired by the
    Utah Opera Company to sign the opera for the deaf.  It's been
    interesting and sometimes fun.  I am my own boss and am able to come
    and go as I please although I am usually here from 8:15 to 5:00+
    depending upon clients arriving on time for their appointments.
     ......
    
    Also, if you find the time to note, please send my love and thoughts to
    all my friends in =wn=.  I miss "talking" to them via the net.  You are
    welcome to put anything from my letters in the file.  You may want to
    tell everyone that I participated in a Pro-choice picket against
    President Bush when he was in Salt Lake. (it was my very first protest
    :) ) Must be a late bloomer or something.  Anyhow, I met a freelance
    journalist who does articles on contraception for a medical newsletter. 
    She just moved to Utah from Atlanta with her husband who is doing a
    psychology residency at Primary Children's Hospital.  Theresa has no
    woman friends here, so we got together for a walkk and lunch last
    Saturday.  It was so refreshing to have another woman with whom I could
    spend time!  There just don't seem to be too many around here who
    aren't involved.
    
    Mega Hugs,
    
    Barb