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This is your life from a suit

life,work 28 January 2010 | 0 Comments

You graduate from college, looking forward to becoming a fully capable and successful professional. You’re hired into Big Corp as an entry-level minion, but your wages are “competitive” – besides, it’s not like you have any debts. All your money goes towards drinking, partying, hanging out with friends. Life is good. Then, you realize you’ll [...]

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It’s not the end of the decade, but… #10yearsago

academia,back to school,family,holidays,life,memories,work 31 December 2009 | 0 Comments

I think it was precisely ten years ago that I gave up the tradition of making resolutions for the new year. I think I must’ve figured it was a stupid waste of energy. Habits are diamond-hard to break: an overnight party and champagne binge will not change that, neither will a change in the calendar [...]

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While You Were Away

academia,back to school,family,friends,holidays,life,vacations,work 17 September 2009 | 1 Comment

Last post on this blog: May 12th I think it was about time I put down my virtual red pen, shoved aside the text books for a moment, and sat down to write something of my own. Summer drained me. A mere few weeks after my last entry, I plunged myself into the world of [...]

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What Summer Looks Like From May

animals,back to school,life,pets,work 6 May 2009 | 0 Comments

Semester is ending, and the fact that I haven’t posted here regularly has been nagging me like a tiny fly in the back of my mind. Some would say that school is to blame for the lack of blogging, but in my case, I think it may be Twitter.:-/ Microblogging killed regular blogging. Sad. I [...]

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

life,work 20 May 2008 | 0 Comments

Last two weeks have been intensely interesting, to say the least. – I considered myself unemployed, my head about to burst with the effort of pushing through the last two weeks (those drasted two weeks’ notice good employees always give). – Then suddenly I’m not so unemployed anymore. All my worrying about whether I’d be [...]

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