Category Archives: On the job

You Are How You Speak/Write

June 19, 2008 – 11:31 am

It was a note from upstairs. It was in response to one I had sent up earlier. The verdict to my inquiry? Negative.
The negating adverb used in the one-sentence message was the simple “No.” Good enough. Or not, apparently, because both letters were capitalized, underlined twice … and enclosed between two quotation marks. Just like I used it above, actually, sans [...]

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Together To Jam

January 31, 2008 – 4:03 pm

When I leave work (or my seat), everyday, I go downstairs from my cubicle’s mezzanine and through at least one row full of cubicles in which my coworkers are seated. One of the cubicles belongs to a coworker named “Pat,” who yesterday asked me on my way out what day I was free next week and which would be a [...]

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Hand Outs

January 17, 2008 – 10:12 am

My car is a mess. Filthy. In a huge, car-conscious (or -dependent, take your pick) society like Los Angeles, it’s either okay or not okay, depending on which end of the “diversity” spectrum you put your stock in: the overly image-conscious end or the self-important, I-don’t-give-a-rat’s-arse end. You can’t forget it also depends on what kind of [...]

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The Receptionist

August 30, 2007 – 10:12 am

I’m not one to laugh at another’s expense. Okay actually, that’s a complete lie.
Try again: There are points of amusement that come about because of things people say and they don’t really realize the full magnitude of what they’ve just said. Call it irony. One case in point might be the most recently popular YouTube [...]

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Bigger Problems In Hollywood Hills

March 30, 2007 – 2:25 pm

C and I (played 10-minute hooky from work and) went directly across the street to peep the fire in the Hollywood Hills.  Apparently, it was worse–that is, more orange and more brown–just an hour prior.  Nonetheless, we were determined to get our shots and since there were no windows in the hallways of the building, we [...]

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Big Problems In Beverly Hills

March 30, 2007 – 1:35 pm

The bossy is having a fit today. Everything with the accounts is fine. No client complaints are rolling in. He had already done his business for the day.
He had found out about, scoured the area for, and purchased an unlocked Moto Rizr Z3. It’s like the Motorola version of the LG Chocolate, with the front [...]

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Shout Out For Sprouts

March 30, 2007 – 1:03 pm

It seems as though sprouts have been “sprouting” up everywhere.  Hold your groans, please.  Hear me out.  They’re delicious.
I don’t mean alfalfa sprouts, although those are the ones you are probably most familiar with.  Those are old news, people.  They pale in comparison to the other kind of sprouts I’ve discovered–if only for the novelty.  I [...]

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