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…

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,…

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…

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…

Whelp – Against my wishes and better judgement, I am back to teaching. It’s fine, and I hope that it is going to amount to something that isn’t teaching. It might do, and so the teaching is a means to an end. Still I can’t say that I am happy about it. The classes I…

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…

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…

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…

I do think that there are tiny benefits to every little thing. I am still smoking, or rather I am smoking again, and one great advantage of this is that it gets you outside, still, not doing anything of note. Thus, you are for at least a moment paying attention to things. Here are some…

As they only human being of my age and cohort has never seen a singular episode of either the American or British variety, I don’t know any of the injokes, references and memes that come along with that culture. The closest thing I ever had to an office job was back in 2000-2002, and that…

There are few words that wind up for a disappointment quite like “this will only take five minutes”. Whenever I hear the words “this will only take five minutes,” I know that my day has officially been compromised. Nothing ever does, and nothing has ever truly been designed too. People who say shit like that…