Oh, how I wish to
post a scathing review on
Yelp! or on Glassdoor.
Is salvaging wounded pride
worth risking a future job?

One more day's training.
Then to face the surging horde.
Black Friday, indeed.
I am grateful for so much:
I'm not in the toy section!

I'm so glad I am not living in Florida right now.  I'd be bursting a blood vessel on so many levels.  Yet, to a certain extent, if Philandering Swamp Creature had only phrased his "language of prosperity/language of the ghetto" another way, he would have made a valid point.

My father already knew English when he got here with my mother (and me on ( Read more... )

The weather promises to be lovely through next Tuesday.  I've taken the time to take short walks on my lunch break.  Yes, the Seaport is touristy and gentrified, but there are little bits of history to be gleaned from it if you look closely, and I don't mean just the tall ships moored there.

For example, just west of Water Street on Fulton:


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And so it begins, everyone!  I passed my exam today with three points over, and just two points shy of my  score on the mock exam.  I called the gentleman who will be my new boss as of tomorrow, when I have put pen to paper.  He will be throwing me right into training.

I will have to walk past the demostrators to get to the office, but I won't let ( Read more... )

The libraries here only give you an hour per day at their terminals.  (New Jersey ones gave two, some gave four if you were at your local branch.)  But then, less people at any one branch meant you could have more time.  The computers here are set up not to allow cookies for security purposes, and I needed these to send out resumes from ( Read more... )

"Are you grieving the
loss of someone dear?" the ad
catches my eye.  Yes.
I am, but a clinical
trial sounds too much like whoring.

So this one is heavy, but getting compensation for the clinical trial of a new anti-depressant seems like a betrayal.  It seems like selling my emotions or my memory of Brian, somehow.  Even if taking part in a university- ( Read more... )