You should thank me. I just saved you from a really boring post about my sleeping habits and how much water I drink. Also, I had pork chops for dinner. Fuck. Starting a new job…
Date Archives November 2008
On sparse details and wrestling
Lori just whined about my first day of work being awfully short on details. It’s funny because I am in the midst of wrestling with this whole “professional blogger” or “corporate blogger” thing and what…
So it goes, in honor of Vonnegut’s birthday
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” “What should young…
This is the first day of my employment — oh-ho-ho
I am nearing completion of my first first day of work since 1999. It wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it would be. That’s kind of the blessing/curse of having such an active imagination…
This is the last day of our unemployment – oh-ho-ho
You should sing the title of this post to the tune of Sinead O’Connor’s “Last Day Of Our Acquaintance.” Tomorrow will be my first first-day-of-work since 1999. I have a little bit of the nervous…
The Wordy Shipmates
I often like to call Sarah Vowell the Gen X Doris Kearns Goodwin or Stephen Ambrose. She’s a historian for our time, and unlike the Goodwin and Ambrose books I had to study in college,…