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I load up boxes of the things we had in the back room — CDs we listened to, the calendar with the funny notes and cartoons we’d draw on it, personal items — because you settle in when it’s two years. I take the garbage out for the last time. It’s 5:30 and dark out …

So the whole work thing isn’t working out. Well, whatever. I’ve gotten fairly exhausted filling out applications for advertised jobs, writing and submitting cover letters and resumes for those jobs, and getting rejected (most of the time without being notified). Last week, on a whim, I decided to take all the usual resume and cover …

The Most Expensive Cupcakes Ever Or: Why you should also use a map feature in conjunction with a shopping feature on your smart phone.  Winsome city dweller From far off and ignorant places Hemmed in by all that your iPhone apps allow you to believe No, we cannot deliver three cupcakes To Cavalier, North Dakota A small …

I always think there is nothing a customer can say that will catch me off guard; after all this time, I think I’ve heard it all. Wrong. There is no end to the inanity. The three, two women and a man, ordered coffee with their dessert as they finished out their lunch. It took a …

It started when the women’s restroom was out of order, leaving us the men’s restroom. I stood there, in the restroom, looking at a strange little mat on the floor around the toilet. What in the world is that for? I wondered. I pondered its usage. It looked a bit like a stress mat that …