In which I’m working full-time and NOTHING (in terms of domestic chores) IS BEING DONE! Floors are filthy. Sheets really need to be laundered. Tub could use a scrub. Not sure when I last brushed my hair. Have done zero Christmas shopping and don’t even have Christmas cards, let alone have any of them addressed […]
In which the lack of integration and the strange selection of available items is weird. Prime Now. It’s a thing where, if you live in a designated big city, you can order stuff from Amazon and have it delivered in a couple of hours rather than in a couple of days. The stuff arrives in […]
In which I cooked and cleaned all day yesterday! Over the weekend we visited Microcenter, where we purchased a monitor, a Toshiba Satellite, and a USB headset. The latter two items were for me, with the sincere hope that I’ll get a support job I’d applied and interviewed for, and for which my Asus wasn’t […]
In which full availability is stupid and bad for everybody. When I worked at a 7-Eleven in my 20’s, there were shifts. There were day people, swing people, and graveyard people. Everybody had a regular schedule — you didn’t work the same days every week, but you worked the same shift every day, the shift […]
In which OMFG WHO EVEN ARE THESE PEOPLE. With the very, very few exceptions of one or two small businesses looking for help, the job market is now a shitshow of fake work-at-home pyramid schemes, horrible poverty-level drone jobs, and weird demands to “call in for application instructions” or “apply in person, but not during […]
In which I don’t think I got the job. Well, it’s Wednesday afternoon, and I haven’t heard back from the CU. Pretty sure they offered both of their lovely P/T teller positions to other applicants. I’m sad, because I really wanted to be able to live and work 600 feet apart, and have regular hours, […]
In which Scott came home for lunch and told me it’s now confirmed that we can actually move this weekend. Today: pack. Tomorrow: pack. The day after: pack and clean. Saturday: MOVE. RENT A TRUCK AND MOVE TO UPTOWN. Sunday: unpack. Monday: unpack. Tuesday: drive to Chicago for a 3-day Amma program. I blew off […]
The death of expertise is a rejection not only of knowledge, but of the ways in which we gain knowledge and learn about things. It’s a rejection of science. It’s a rejection, really, of the foundation of Western civilization: yes, that paternalistic, racist, ethnocentric approach to knowledge that created the nuclear bomb, the Edsel, and […]
In which it’s not much, but it’s what there was. Hitting Snooze I was scheduled to work a short noon-to-four shift today, which sucks because it’s too cold to walk and there’s no bus so I’d have to take two taxi rides. Which makes no sense if you’re only working four hours, because you’d spend […]
In which I’m a domestic goddess. When I got up this morning — and when I say ‘morning’ you should read ‘afternoon,’ because I didn’t get up until twelve-thirty — I already had dinner planned and was resolved to wash the bed linens. I stretched lightly in bed, then got up and did a few […]
