Pascal Lamy, director-general and public face of the World Trade Organization which makes him the world's most popular scapegoat and a favorite target of NGOs and activists, gave a press conference today and met me and my editor for a short sit-down interview. (What a tiring day! Plus, I just heard that I have to cancel my day-off tomorrow which ( Read more... )

I resigned from my work today.  I’ll miss some people I have come to adored there, but it’s for the best.  I'm so tired and annoyed of everything about it now, staying will be the end of me.

I'm a postmodernist. Or so says here. Oh. I miss comparative lit, I miss theory-speak. The only lit crit jargon I use now is hegemony, which I use to describe the power relations here at The Office ( Read more... )

I got this from the New Yorker's site. On the Shouts and Murmurs page. Steve Martin never disappoints! And check out Virgin Number 70. I think she's the prize catch. Imagine if this is true; imagine the look on the terrorists' faces. Hee. Note to self: pay your 2007 subscription this week ( Read more... )

Off to Baguio tomorrow! Yay to cold weather and sweaters ( Read more... )

Just after writing Job Interview, Part I yesterday, I received a call from the other company. Turns out, they want to hire me. Yay! The feedback, according to the girl on the phone: The bosses thought that I was "too introspective". (Their words, not mine.) You read too much, she said. Well, so I guess, they were not impressed with my people-skills ( Read more... )

I had the most bizarre interview ever last week. It was very chatty, but I was really nervous so I forgot plenty of important things. I was asked if the names Thomas Mann, E. L. Doctorow, and John Updike mean anything. Duh. That’s a no-brainer, I said. One of the guys gave me a slip of paper with the words “a true friend stabs you in the front.” ( Read more... )

Got a postcard from Markus last Friday night. All the way from Potsdam! It was an awful week so that helped. At least I went to bed feeling a bit cheery ( Read more... )

From the news today ( Read more... )

I think I’ll visit UP next week and have coffee with E. He must be lonely and depressed because N is in coma. Sad news. That means he’s the last Materialist-Marxist man standing in the department. That’s a lonely spot to be in. I know he and N are tight, having been witness to the birth of the Communist Party and the Martial Law. N actually was one ( Read more... )