Though I generally liked my time working at my old office, I was desperate to quit. I worked the front desk at the international students office, a high-stress, low-paying job. The office was underfunded, always busy, and tempers flew – those of the students whose documents weren’t ready yet, and those of the advisors who [...]
Yesterday turned out to be a deceptively cold and windy day (thank you, useless meteorologists), so I was walking briskly towards the bus stop at the Union, when ahead of me, I saw a bright mop of red hair and a neon flamingo pink windbreaker heading towards me. It took a few seconds for my [...]
Quark, typically a staunchly sedentary kitty, seems to be hinting at a renewed desire to stow away on one of our school trips, and explore the world beyond our humble apartment: And earlier, I even caught him napping in the carrier, previously his most hated enemy (besides the neon pink mousie the boy’s mom gave [...]
I am at home now, attempting to introduce my mother into the wide scary world of the Intar-web (why I am doing this, I do not know). I’m currently using NetZero, which is predictably sucktastic. Its only virtue seems to be that it’s not as bad as AOL, who will send monkeys with crowbars to [...]
