The Froth

It’s not my fault I’m supercalifragilisticexpealidocious

28. February 2008

Why is this? Why is it that in almost all of the work environments I’ve been bosses like me and few coworkers do? 1. Because I suck up to bosses? 2. Because I do the job so well that other coworkers feel threatened? (ha! This would make a fine excuse, like the answers celebrities give [...]

Vanishing now

30. November 2007

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I am going to vanish until the 7th of December. The truth is we are adding some new products to the deli and I also have to be in Richmond because we are moving to new premises. But this time I am glad to be leaving. I’ve had a very difficult week and because weeks [...]

Delusions of grandeur

22. November 2007

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Yesterday, as I was searching for fresh information on theme parks in Europe, I stumbled upon an old article of mine on the same topic (journalists always recycle their articles, fresh food costs a lot, and newspapers tend to get what they pay for). The problem is that my article was found in a blog, [...]

Wrap up your time and give it to me

15. November 2007

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What I was working on, among other things, was handmade gifts-things for the holidays. I turned to my muse for inspiration, although in one case, I just did what she had done, exactly. I thought about this for a magazine article because that’s the one thing that annoys me in Christmas. That you have to [...]

Empty DVD cases: The perfect gift

13. November 2007

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The last couple of weeks had been so bad I had taken to eating breakfast on the bus. As a result, I have been wondering why nobody has thought of buses with breakfast tables and even a small canteen, for people who have no time to have breakfast at home. Because let’s face it, I can’t [...]

Pity, mercy, compassion, I’ll take it all

7. July 2007

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A card I had made some time ago to wish me Happy Summer Holidays. Ha! I am shattered. I know people should not take out a page to write "I am shattered", but maybe this rule was made for people who did not need to say "I am shattered" so much and who did not need [...]

Flight BA0631

29. March 2007

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Greek Kitsch It is getting boring, I mean, me, checking in to say “I am leaving tomorrow”. It is true, I am leaving tomorrow, and I haven’t updated you on all the times I went away this month. But I am going to have a laptop in London and I will try to update from there. [...]