I’m at your place. It’s not your place now, of course. Even in dreams, I know this. Still, we’re there to celebrate. The valley is all there. Remnants of your family and friends, some who moved away many years ago. Some I barely remember.

I sneak away and walk toward my parents’ house. It’s not my parents’ house anymore either, of course. I turn ( Read more... )

It was a long, boring week. We finally had a weekend off after three weeks straight of work, and they made up for it last week by barely getting any work to us. I taught the new folks amendments and reprints. I did another round of teaching to our backup crew who helps proof when they can. Almost every day, the majority of the typists were out sick ( Read more... )

A tornado of emotions hit with little to no alarm, or some other natural-disaster based metaphor where everything is left utterly destroyed in its wake. No warnings, unless you count the ones I probably chose to ignore. I find myself sitting in the closet after I've undressed for the day feeling tired and on the verge of tears. No reason for this I ( Read more... )

It has been a rough six months. Friday, I was elated because we had finally gotten everything we need to finish codification, a project that has unfathomably taken longer than the eight months it took us last cycle, and I was preparing to work this weekend to see where we could get on the last few documents before Monday. With a little over two ( Read more... )

Okay, let's do it.

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Maaaan, if I don't at least try to start this, I'm not sure when I'll get to it.

ICELAND TRIP (Insert fanfare here)!
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Man, it's been over two weeks since we've returned from Iceland, and I haven't been able to come back and write about it yet. It seems like it's been one thing after another ( Read more... )

I found out Olive's test results Wednesday. I just haven't gotten myself to write about them because I don't want to get too worked up about it ( Read more... )

I took the day off today to take Olive to the vet. It really didn't take that long and I could've easily gone back to work, but at the time I requested it at work, I had no time off in sight and really wanted at least something to look forward to since we were still stuck in codification hell. This was before I asked for the time off to go to Vegas ( Read more... )

I had a dream a few nights ago that woke me from a very deep sleep. What is it about people who have been gone ten years or more? How do they pop back in every once in a while and set the whole town ablaze only to vanish again? I don't even know what you look like anymore. I am long over all this. I am over wanting to mumble apologies and have them ( Read more... )