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Steps to Being an Effective Human Being #776,592:

Stop taking all encouragement as condescension.

The very gay, very socially-conscious boy that sits beside me now at work and I were just talking about how I feel like I'm maybe too combative at work, not flexible enough ( Read more... )

The level of not-caring I've reached with this job is pretty intense.

Oh, that $900 designer lambskin vest? I'm just storing it on the floor crumpled up in a plastic bag for now, nbd.

So I miss having a dog. Like, a lot ( Read more... )

You know you have a fear of commitment/generalized neuroses when your boyfriend-of-a-year-and-change's 12-year old brother friend requesting you on FB is enough to send you into a mini-crise about whether or not you're At That Point yet.

You know you live with the right kind of hippies when you wake up at 1pm on a Sunday and your roommates still haven't slept. Instead, the Chilean DJ is chilling in the French DJs room and they're smoking joints watching intense break battles and yelling at the laptop screen.

You know you live with the right kind of hippies when you get up at 1:30 am on a Wednesday night and there are six of them dancing to The Love Generation in your kitchen. And you smile and say "good morning guys" and they give you a shot of moonshine and then push a joint into your hand as soon as you lower your shotglass.

Guys. I just needed a

You know you live with the right kind of hippies when, after being woken up by their 4:30 am moonshine-fueled monkey screams, you storm out of your room and get only as far as «can we PLEASE» before one of them (in this case, a Welsh boy named Dafydd) wraps you up in a bear hug and apologizes, talks about how it could be worse, makes you laugh. And ( Read more... )

Handling some $30,000 Rolex watches at work lately. Bosses make me (and everyone who comes near them) wear little white cotton gloves to protect the finish, the face. It makes me feel like a cute old-timey jeweler as I eff around with their clasps and bezels.

This job is bizarre. I'm learning so many things I don't care about. Like what a bezel