The phone rang at work today. I answered it. The voice on the other end was high-pitched, a boy whose voice hasn’t yet broken. “I have Halo,” he said, “and I don’t like it.” “What’s wrong? Why don’t you like it?” Innocuous questions, to be sure, but they’re asked to narrow down the reasons forContinue reading “On Prank Phone Calls”
Category Archives: Work
On Evaluating the Week
Today I feel mildly awake. It’s been quite a long week. Shore Leave over the weekend, inventory prep at the store–convention, lengthy drive, twelve-plus hour days at work. Suffice to say yesterday I was exhausted and unable to move, and not just from the seventeen hour shift I pulled on Wednesday due to performing theContinue reading “On Evaluating the Week”
On My Bad Day
A quick summation. I've been suffering panic attacks. Since Saturday, to be exact. Long-time Allynologists will tell you that I have a lot going on in my life right now, and very little of it is stable. Saturday afternoon at work, I tensed up, my breathing tightened, and I felt a fight-or-flight response building insideContinue reading “On My Bad Day”
On Exhaustion
I am feeling massively, monstrously exhausted. The last month–from the long hours at work to the emotional devestation I felt when Perceval was gone those eleven days–has taken its toll. I've had some sherbert, lime flavored. My grandmother likes sherbert, and I usually buy her orange. Today, I felt like lime. All things being equal,Continue reading “On Exhaustion”
More on The da Vinci Code Game
From something I wrote a few weeks ago: “I don’t think anyone knows there’s a da Vinci Code game, sorry.” It seems that the da Vinci Code game has sold so well that we marked the price down twenty dollars on the game this week. Twenty dollars. Half-price. No, I don’t just think anyone knowsContinue reading “More on The da Vinci Code Game”
On Trying to Do the Right Thing
Yesterday at work a young girl came up to the counter with her father. She handed me a game, BMX XXX. It's a BMX biking game, but crude, rude, and outright crass. As you beat levels you unlock video footage of strippers. I looked at her. She was maybe seven. Maybe. I looked at herContinue reading “On Trying to Do the Right Thing”
On Predictions
Tonight is the decisive game seven in the Stanley Cup finals. Raleigh, naturally, has gone hockey-crazy. I, on the other hand, couldn’t really give a toss. At work on Saturday I asked a kid, wearing a ‘Canes jersey, if he were excited about game six in Edmonton that night. “The ‘Canes have to lose tonight,”Continue reading “On Predictions”
On My Strange Weekend
My sister got married Saturday. That's not what's strange. One of the bridesmaids gave me her phone number. That's not what's strange. I had a dream about work. That's what's strange. The dream, and I'm not clear on all the details because it's a dream and they have surreal logics all their own, involved meContinue reading “On My Strange Weekend”
On Air Conditioning
The air conditioning at work went out on Saturday. With the holiday weekend and all a technician came out today. Oh, it’s been bloody hot at work. It’s just hot in general right now. I’d rather live in an alternate world where rogue glaciers are attacking Maine and Michigan than in the world where myContinue reading “On Air Conditioning”
On Returning From an Inventory
I got in just a little bit ago. Six hours to finish. Not bad, for an inventory performed with two scanners. The procedure was wildly different than I was used to, in both good ways and bad ways. I think the final result will be accurate, but the inventory procedure used is so lacking inContinue reading “On Returning From an Inventory”