A couple of weeks ago I wrote an optimistic little piece about how things seemed to be looking up with my life, particularly when I compared it to how things were back in China, and how things ultimately shook out. Whelp, I spoke to soon. Just as soon as I published that, my boss changed…
The workplace ATF
Over the course of my life I have had many run-ins with the a force of absolute destructive potential energy. I am referring to the workplace ATF. The workplace ATF is never there by surprise, but somehow you always find yourself surprised by them. It is always one of those things that, at least in…
Winter of the dead hobbies (part 2): Journaling
(Hello! Did you know that this post is part of a series? Now you do!) Generally, I like to keep busy. I have kept: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto for years. That being said, it is not easy to do. Nor were the reasons I did so virtuous. Keeping busy is the only…
Seemed like a good idea
It’s natural that people are in love with their own ideas. Part of the problem is that they are our ideas. The notion is that, because it came from my head, it must be good. After all, garbage doesn’t come from my head. I have a good head. I am a very lucky individual in…
China all over again
I know that head line sounds bad, but it is actually a good thing! I should clarify that China wasn’t all bad, at least as far as my time there was concerned. I was sometimes annoyed, bored, and variously worried about things at the time, but now that I am at the end of it,…
Home for the holidays
I went to Udine this past Christmas. Udine isn’t home exactly, but it is close enough. It was nice to go and spend time with my family. The week I spent there was full of good food and relaxing, and I even managed to meet up with a friend of mine in Venice. I couldn’t…
It didn’t dawn on me until someone said it
Ok, one more “hey! new job post”. This will be a short one, I promise. And I do hope these things start to simmer down soon. They might. At some point, as the job becomes monotonous, all of this will get boring and I will stop commenting on it. But until then, I am happy…
Now I’m the asshole
In 2022 I became my own version of that awful ‘how it started / how its going meme’. Let’s review. I started the year by undergoing a metric fuck ton of interviews. I was job hunting, and I hate job hunting. I hate everything about it. In the process, I got kind of good at…
Winter of the dead hobbies (part 1): Photography
Generally, I like to keep busy. I have kept: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto for years. That being said, it is not easy to do. Nor were the reasons I did so virtuous. Keeping busy is the only way I can the depression from truly kicking in. If I keep busy, I don’t…
Philosophy and change
When I was a kid, I took an internship where I met a college aged guy working the same job as me. We got along relatively well, excepting for the fact that I was a naive 17 year old and he more or less treated me exactly as I merited. Some of the conversations we…
Friendships on a timer
The fastest indicator that you will like a job is your working relationships with your colleagues. Get on with them, and the job will likely go well. If you don’t get along with them and, well, let’s just say you shouldn’t update your LinkedIn profile. When I took up my most recent jobs I liked…
Locus Horribilis 