Category Archives: bitterness

fat chance

Posted on Thursday, 2003 August 07 by Anton

Received a spam just now entitled Hey!! I saw you at work today! If only.

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Arlo nails it

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 10 by Anton

One of my favorite songs begins: It’s the tenth of January / and I still ain’t had no sleep

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bleak, with scattered hail

Posted on Friday, 2002 December 06 by Anton

In the shower this morning I was reflecting that the temp agencies haven’t called me in ages, and wondering what I ought to do. And I thought, if they’d just tell me “Go away already, you’re a fuckup and we’re … Continue reading →

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back to the drawing board

Posted on Sunday, 2002 August 25 by Anton

Buddhists say that happiness comes through detachment from desire. Don’t believe it.

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“disappointment was my closest friend”

Posted on Sunday, 2002 July 14 by Anton

That old familiar mood disorder got a lot of teeth into me over the last few days; but even if I thought you cared to read about that in more detail, I’m far from sure that I’d want my moaning … Continue reading →

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wish carefully

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 26 by Anton

Last week I moaned about unemployment. So now I’m all-but-offered a job: doing work even more mechanical than before, at 3/5 the wage. Naturally the client won’t want to invest three weeks of training (on a proprietary system; the last … Continue reading →

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gloom update

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 19 by Anton

Three months out of work. Occasional nibbles from agencies but no follow-up. (And all because for the last dozen years I used WordPerfect rather than bloody Redmondware. To think that, last time around, the temp agencies were fighting over me … Continue reading →

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