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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
El 2008 me dejó más lecciones que muchos de los años anteriores. A través de penas y malratos, al fin entendí que no puedo “bregar” con mi carrera. Por más que me esfuerce por retener el interés y ser la más profesional y la más “echá pa’ lante”, definitivamente estoy tratando de caber en una [...]
The act of adapting to a new set of cirumstances. Sometimes it takes a negative toll, it sucks our creative energy and our happiness away. Re-adapting can tint the world in a gray cast: it all becomes muddled shadows under sickly yellow streetlamps. … but sometimes it becomes a brightening filter: the grass starts looking [...]