conversations with racists
Filed in Things That I Do Not Like, February 28, 2008, 8:59 am by CatalinaI went to Target the other day. I stood in line to check out behind a man who was talking animatedly to the cashier about how government official-type people are going to start pulling over any big truck driven by “a foreign-looking person” to make sure said person is not a terrorist. The guy was [...]
don’t want to be a bitch anymore
Filed in Things That I Do Not Like, February 19, 2008, 12:11 pm by CatalinaI’ve always been more comfortable thinking of myself as an aggressive/mean person than someone who is kind and compassionate. I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older, but I don’t want to be that way anymore. I want to be someone who, when people think about me offhand, inspires thoughts like, “Oh yeah, Beth [...]
stupidity at the post office (where else?)
Filed in Things That I Do Not Like, , 9:07 am by CatalinaI had the brilliant idea this weekend to try selling some of my books on Amazon…I am so out of space to keep things, and my first impulse is to throw everything away. But I can’t throw away perfectly good books–it goes against everything I believe in.
So far, I’m thinking it might be [...]
overthinking, again
Filed in Things That Are Conversational, February 13, 2008, 8:45 am by CatalinaI thought my license plate concept was genius, but now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t have thought it out a little more carefully.
I wanted the number 38 on it. Check.
I also wanted it to say KTHX. But I didn’t want the letters to go over the image in the middle, because then they’re hard to [...]
I don’t want to talk about this anymore
Filed in Things That I Do Not Like, February 11, 2008, 2:33 pm by CatalinaThere are a lot of reasons I like working at a small company, in an office with only four other people. For the most part, I think this is my ideal work environment.
One bad part though, is that there is no HR to handle problems for me. I have mildly fond memories of the HR [...]
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