My Dog is Chelsea

Okay. I’m stressed out. I don’t have time to write why. So we’ll just leave it at that. In other news, you can read this chart I wrote for the newspaper if you’re bored, which, I must say, looks a hell of a lot better in print than it does on the web. Or this, [...]

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It’s not my finest piece of writing, but it’s in print, so there’s no going back now. Here’s my first article for the Willamette Week. And holy crap, did this thing get edited! I’ve never experienced such a dissection of my work by so many other people, but I suppose that if this is the [...]

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I’ve tried to spice up the boredom of dishing out curried chicken salad by adding a new element of surprise to my job: The Deli Counter Trivia of the Day.So far, I’ve only come up with four questions, two of which were blatantly stolen from a Trivial Pursuit: Know It All edition, so I’m looking [...]

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The following craigslist job categories offer no hope of future employment due to either my 1) complete ineptitude in the field 2) lack of necessary training or 3) absolute aversion to this type of work: accounting/finance architecture/engineering biotech/science business/management government human resources internet engineering medical/health skilled trade/craft software/qa (what the heck is qa?)/dba (ditto) systems/networking [...]

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