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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Keep Your Five -- I recently commented to a co-worker that I’m not a high-fiver and that I’ve never high-fived in my life (leaving him with his hand hanging in the air).
My response was probably not exactly true, but given the combination of not really being effusive in expressing emotions, a general pessimistic/cynical personality (appropriate for a project manager), a touch of bursitis in my right shoulder, and having never really crossed into the world of jocks (with which I associate the practice), I can accurately say that I’ve never comfortably high-fived anyone in my life.
That said, I run the risk of being accosted tomorrow by passing along the information that...
National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year, which falls this year on April 20, 2006. The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002, and has since spread across the nation, and around the globe...
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