Tag: Work
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Chasing Exceptional
When you’re a kid, you know you’re going to be an Olympian. And president. And probably fly to Mars too, for good measure. You’re going to be a rock star, a movie star, a race car driver. You’re going to be the absolute best at absolutely everything on earth. And then, somewhere down the line,…
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This Little Poem Went to the Market
So it’s the first day of June, which, in my mind, means it is also the first day of summer. On memorial day weekend a year ago I knew my attitude had to change. I’d already had one miserable summer stuck in the middle of nowhere and I was determined not to have another. Even…
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Downing the Work Vodka
It saddens me knowing how resistant many of are to acknowledging the fact that we can change our lifestyle. We complain about our lot in life and disregard the part of the problem that’s malleable. When we’re stressed out we whine about it and ignore it as a signal from ourselves to god forbid change…
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The Search Continues…
Every day for the last couple weeks, I have been perusing job sites, looking in vain for a full time job to take me away from the current double part-time customer-service-all-the-time fiasco of my employment. Not that I dislike the jobs, necessarily. In fact, there are many aspects I quite enjoy. But I can’t help…
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Reader’s Advisory: The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
Yes, we Millenials suck sometimes. But you know what we are good at? Not giving a shit about things that don’t actually matter. Especially things that don’t actually matter in our own specific lives (I’m looking at you AP Calculus. And you, insert basically any celebrity name here who is famous for nothing). Elderly people…
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New Week, New Start (But Not Really)
Am I the only one who needs a rousing Lord of the Rings-like battle speech just to make it out of bed for work in the morning? Mondays are depressing in general, but Mondays that are the start of a 20 day work week are so much worse. Today though, I decided I should get my…
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Birthday Buzz
I’m one of those people who treat their birthday like their damn wedding day. Every year I coordinate every little detail to make it the best f***ing day of my life. I seem to expect the entire human population to stop and bow down at my feet just because today happens to be the day…
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10 Things I Suggest You No Longer Do at Your Local Library
99% of the patrons I have encountered in my various library jobs have been pleasant, awesome people. The other 1%, however, I have wanted to punch right in their facial area. Below are some of the behaviors I have encountered that have caused the rare emotion of rage/extreme annoyance to rise up inside of me.…
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Assumed Lost
If you are anything like me (and unless you graduated college a 21 year old virgin, still make your parents schedule all of your medical appointments, and are a vegetarian who hates vegetables, I don’t assume you are) then you are slumming it in your yoga pants with the tiny hole in the crotch wondering…
Babbling Brooks 