I wish I could live correctly, but instead I find myself spending my free time doing work-work, and the interstitial time wondering where my free time has gone and how to get it back by declaring PTO (paid time off) on my timesheet so I could go out into the world and get an atom …
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Flip Page
2022. I dunno what to say. What motivational statement could I give that hasn’t already been written by Zig Ziglar somewhere? I could say it’s a new page, a new chapter, a new book, but is it really? Today feels just like yesterday, except I’m sore and my belly’s full of peas and cornbread. Still …
Three Weak Ends
Every year, no matter what job I have, I make every attempt to take the entire week of Thanksgiving off. It costs 3 days of PTO (if the job has it, which my current one does), and I get an entire week off. You’d think this was great and wonderful and is an entire week …
Dotted Line
It’s clear to me that my employer does not respect boundaries. I got a missed call and a missed text from my manager, who sits in another city, saying that he wanted me to call him for our weekly 1:1 meeting, which is usually scheduled for Thursdays. I am on vacation this week and he …
Stumptown Thoughts
I’ve been asked to cobble together my thoughts on my trip to Portland, to give my impression on the city, the state, and its people. It’s taken me a while to digest and put it into words, because the city doesn’t exactly have a strong flavor. In my five days of taste-testing, there’s just no singular …