Phil | October 24, 2008
There’s this one story I’ve been meaning to write down for, oh, the last two years or so. (It happened more like four or five years ago, but I decided that I wanted to write it down only two years ago.) For the sake of background, I’ll briefly explain: It’s the story of how my [...]
Phil | August 27, 2008
When you work in the field I do (interpreting; not speech), there’s almost no such thing as too much information. Tonight, I was reminded once again just how much I love my job. I love it because random words like ‘phallic’ pop up from time to time, and invariably, I wind up getting into a [...]
Phil | January 10, 2008
The writing process is a mystery to me. I’m currently in awe of the fact that I agonized over my letter of intent for graduate school. It seriously took me a solid week to wind up with a draft that didn’t make me cringe, much less crawl under a rock and hope that no one [...]
Phil | October 17, 2007
Whoever came up with the concept of meetings was clearly a psycho lunatic glutton for punishment. I’d say some form of action should be taken against said sorry excuse for a human being, but… that someone would probably enjoy whatever retribution was inflicted.
I had to wake my ass up at 6 o’clock this morning just [...]
Phil | October 4, 2007
It seems the custodian stealer thief guy has discriminating taste after all. I left those fruity chips for him, and was disappointed beyond all reason when I walked into the office this morning and saw that they were still there. But he’d made off with an unopened bag of Starbucks coffee from the refrigerator. Oh [...]
