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The passage of time / Is flicking dimly up on the screen / I can’t see the lines / I used to think I could read between
posted at 4:00 PM | comments (5) | dread/ennui, work
introduction (state thesis). supporting paragraph #1 (main idea, example, example, example, conclusion). #2. #3. conclusion.
We know nothing. We record, calculate, draw conclusions. Your replies were difficult and sometimes impossible to codify. We deduce a below-average intelligence. We are sometimes in mortal need of inferior intelligences. At other times we have a no less mortal distrust of them. We will call you back.
posted at 1:35 PM | comments (7) | dread/ennui, work
Do you ever try talking to your co-workers about politics? Do you ever talk to cats or dogs? Which do you prefer?…
posted at 8:45 PM | comments (5) | work
Three days without a cigarette have sent my lungs into fits of hoarse, hacking expectoration. Three days of Robitussin DM have addled my brains to the point of uselessness. I think slowly and I work only with great effort and deliberation. My thoughts come one at time, ghostly and indistinct, like coded transmissions from another world. I hear my…
posted at 11:56 AM | comments (1) | dread/ennui, work
I haven’t had a vacation this year because we’ve been too busy at work, with several back-to-back releases. I wasn’t even allowed to take a three or four day weekend when we went to Surfside last month because we had so much work to do. I was waiting until the fall to figure out vacation plans because I was…
posted at 11:46 AM | comments (1) | work
Today on the link-o-matic, Tamara posted the Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick. When I was 18, I got a job at a Bookstop, and worked there for the next two summers and Christmases. After my first few paychecks, I asked all my coworkers to recommend books for me to buy (before I realized that I could just come…
T: Peeny wally. J: Willy-nilly. T: Argy-bargy. J: Higgledy-piggledy. T: Hocus-pocus….
posted at 5:18 PM | comments (6) | misc, work
After reading the last entry, you might think me an ingrate, one sadly lacking in perspective. But this is not so. For example: Today at work, a staff meeting was held, and the executive who runs our site stood before the west washrooms with a microphone and briefed us on our present difficulties, our strained customer relations, and our…
posted at 7:43 PM | comments (5) | work