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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

realizing the gift that is life and getting to confront the fragility of it all really gave me a renewed appreciation for sitting through another family holiday. not that i was anything beyond traditionally stoic, but yo i felt it.

i hope everyone got what they needed this christmas. i think i did. with my two presents and a handful of real gifts.

my eggnog is the shit, by the way.

peace. seriously.

-t

burn-in completed at 10:08 AM




Tuesday, December 19, 2006

whoever gave me the flu is a fuckin asshole.

mixtape volume 2: stick the landing
it's done and ready to ship. make sure i have your address if you want one in the mail. otherwise, make sure i hand you one.

ready? begin.

burn-in completed at 10:30 AM




Monday, December 04, 2006

the boss of me
okay, so i'm an airhead at times. maybe this finally qualifies me for upper management.

many of my loyal readers and other friend types know that my current shift starts at 5am. for the most part i work the whole hour by myself. this hour typically consists of robotic routines scripted from a manual in a big green binder on how to act. push button one, push button two, intial here, move on.

the routine breaks into jackanape chaos when a machine goes down in the off-hours. i walk in to something beeping or otherwise in a state of panic. this is what i walked into this morning. there was simply a gang of shit to do and only a few minutes in which to do them, so i get to it, mulititasking like a mofo.

my boss walked in during the middle of my "oh shit what now" headless chicken parade. she put her bag down, listened to my informal report on the state of the shit, then informed me that the 6am person took a holiday today. then my boss left the room to do something else. so i'm one-man showin' it for two hours straight.

i'm so the boss of me.

i was reflecting (during this tumult, oddly enough) on my concurrent aspirations for self-employment and financial freedom, and concluded that i'll be okay. it's a slow process though. a few things have to happen before i can devote all my energy toward acting like i work for myself. my artistic pursuits and their looming deadlines certainly factor in. and admittedly, i've been indulging in my curiosities about the opportunities for my career here and elsewhere. but see, a considerable portion of liberation from the hamster wheel is mental. so i figure, i suppose i could still work for The Man for a few years more. i've succeeded in unfettering my mind, and that's the most important part. besides, my nontaxable income stream is looking pretty promising.

like i said, i'll be okay. after all, i am the boss of me.

burn-in completed at 6:47 AM