it's a new school year and with that come the frantic fall orders hurrying in with a flurry of teachers. i don't mind it. there are challenges lurking in the requests for this textbook in braille or that graphic novel in large print, but this year i'm much more confident in my position and today, when a teacher called asking about consumable ( Read more... )

there are fewer and fewer employees at work these days. everybody's using up their extra vacation days now. i'm saving up mine for next year in case we don't get the week after Christmas off. still, things in the office are far from boring. a coffee war has been spawned from weeks of pent-up annoyance at the anonymous coffee drinker who doesn't ( Read more... )

i be sick.

the words of the two prophetesses ring true:

lo! and on that hallowed and most sacred day before the wintry freedom, the bespectacled one will succumb to the pressing shadow of infection. and there will be much mourning and gnashing of teeth. hair, ravaged by the beast of paper, will be miraculously spared as the bespectacled one ( Read more... )

to all of you lower mainlanders (or anyone from b.c., for that matter):i would ask you to sign the petition below on behalf of the residents of burkeville. another piece of our green space is going to be cleared for the construction of a WestJet hangar (six storeys high!) which will be a 24 hour operation with plane maintenance going on all night ( Read more... )

everybody who reads this, please respond:

do you like melba toast?

thank you for your input,

management