Awakenings

For about a week now, I’ve had recurring dreams about my former office. Okay, let’s call them what they are: nightmares. This has happened off and on since I left Initech, but only recently has it gone into overdrive.
The common elements in each dream are: I return to my former workplace to find everything has [...]

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In memoriam

Happy Memorial Day everyone—or, rather, a very solemn and reflective Memorial day to you all. For a day that’s supposed to honor our fallen veterans, it pretty well managed to deteriorate into yet another drunken American party day full of furniture bargains and used car sales.
That great happy feeling of the first few weeks of [...]

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Operation Bug Out: Day 3

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me say it here and now, for ever and all time: I, Margaret, have a [...]

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