There are times when I feel I’m channelling my inner sophisticated and professional adult with laudable success. Last night’s meeting was all about data, something I loathe. But the data was looking at the school’s senior classes and their results on the all important end-of-year exam. My class’ results were SPECTACULAR. Above the state average in ( Read more... )

There’s a woman at work who uses the word ‘sorry’ a lot. And by a lot I mean A LOT. If she asks you a question, if she walks past you, essentially every interaction with her is cushioned in either a pre-emptive or reactive apology. At first I found it amusing, viewing it as a cute little linguistic tic of sorts. But the thing about becoming aware ( Read more... )

I don’t take leftovers to work for lunch, no matter how delicious and salivatary-inducing they are. I want to, but I don’t. I can’t. I won’t. It’s a hard and fast rule I’ve never broken and I never ever will.  And it all stems from the first time I saw a communal work fridge and realised that human beings are just really truly disgusting. Milk ( Read more... )

There are the clothes I wear to face the world at work and at play, and then there are the clothes I wear when I’m at home. Home clothes don’t have to be stylish or appropriate or even fit right. They just have to be comfy. I’ve gathered a mish-mash of home wearing bits and pieces over the years - most are dorky and well loved, some have holes or ( Read more... )

The kitchen bench top of my childhood home protruded out beyond the actual counter and into the walkway space between the kitchen and dining area. It was curved and sleek, cleverly stealing additional surface space for cooking prep. The only problem was that I always ran right into it. There must have been a time, as a toddler, when I could ( Read more... )

It’s really a travesty of justice and equality that fingernails are afforded the right to be grown long and fashioned into talon-like points but toenails receive no such societal acceptance. I’m not saying you couldn’t grow your toenails long and file them into points (then walk stealthily close to your enemies and sideswipe their legs, using your ( Read more... )