Sick

I’m just sick enough to feel miserable, but not really sick enough to justify staying home from work. It totally sucks. This morning, Kürbis woke me up at o’dark thirty by scratching at the blankets. He knows this wakes us up. My job is then to hold the blankets up so he can slip in [...]

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Back to the grind

The economy seems to be getting better, so they’re going to let us start working “up to full-time” again. It is a very complicated and boring new rule, so I won’t go into it here. Suffice to say everyone’s new hours and people’s generally low opinion of company policy were the only subjects of conversation [...]

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Back, despite the volcano

I spent all week at the Wire and Tube trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. My company had a booth and I, being female, was asked to work as a kind of hostess for the booth. In other words, I got people coffee, topped up the bowls of peanuts, sliced Leberkäs for guests, and washed many [...]

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