It’s taken a long time and a lot of work to get here, but I think I’ve finally cultivated a healthy work-WORK balance. I mean, WTF to people even do with the “Life” part of their balance? Post self care memes on Instagram? I don’t understand. If I don’t work 7 days a week, it’ll …
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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 …
Lyricosis Is Not Just For Lyrics
I was Today years old when I learned that what I thought was the German word “Stomptisch“, which I inferred was a meet-up where you tell funny stories around a table and slap it in laughter, is actually “Stammtisch“, meaning the table for the regulars of the biergarten, tavern, or restaurant. That’s it. That’s all …
Infallible, Inconceivable, Inconsolable
There are four professions in which one can never, ever be wrong (especially when they are wrong): Cop Politician Preacher Teacher This week I talked with a teacher I tangentially knew at a bar, and we found there was some common ground between us. As the chatter went on, I said something that she didn’t …
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YOU DON’T KNOW ME. Seriously, you probably don’t. You only know what I tell you. If you knew any more, you’d be my friend. And I don’t have any of those. I just have people who think they can predict me. And I absolutely can’t have that.