My dad introduced our family to a wonderful company called Despair, Inc. a few years ago. They started off selling demotivational posters like the motivational ones you’ve probably seen a thousand times. Now they sell all sorts of stuff, and as someone who has received a backorder notification from them, I can say that all…
un’isola
Today is a nostalgic day. What is it that I’m pining for? Being surrounded by a foreign language. I’ll explain. I’ve been going through things and reorganizing lately. It’s a good spring-ish thing to do, and I ran into some old journals in the process. The journals start around 1990 and more or less stop…
Easter with the ‘Rents
I thought I was good at getting things done until my parents came to visit me this weekend. They put my productivity to shame and sneaked in a nap, too. My beds and mattresses are in different rooms than they were on Friday, my front yard contains totally different plants than it did on Saturday…
Dilbert and Me
I often feel lucky as I sit in my cubicle. It’s a nice cubicle, really. There’s plenty of clean storage space that I try to keep as empty as possible for whatever reason, an under-cabinet light so I can have some semblance of control over the space, and a comfy chair that spins pretty well. …
Stripes
This moment of stripes in nature is brought to you by a mild obsession I’ve had with stripes since sometime in high school. For a while, that manifested itself in way too many items of striped clothing. That has been cut down to a reasonable percentage of my clothes, but I still sneak stripes into…
Wednesday Mornings
Wednesdays are my favorite. I work from 11:30-8:30 (instead of the normal 8:30-5:30), which puts a cramp in my social life sometimes, but is oh so nice in the morning! Today included some coffee with a friend and lots of not much else. Perfect. I’ve been in a writing funk lately, so this is more…
Shaving Snafu
Yesterday morning was pretty typical. Woke up at 7:32, not in any hurry to get started with the business of the day, perfectly aware that I had to be out of the house no later than 8:09 to make it to my morning meeting. I did make it out of the house precisely at 8:09,…
Small, but valuable. 