All Posts by revisingproust

here’s a conversation between me and a co-worker. i’ve redacted some not-so-nice things that may have been said in the heat of the moment. so, like tough_love and her polls, please feel free to leave your comments… co-worker: im listening to the sound of young america (hey, boss, if you’re reading this – co-worker...
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i don’t know if it’s due to the election, Michael Scott, my job in the staffing industry, or reality television shows, but lately i’ve had this weird fascination with office politics or team politics or group politics. how organized groups of people interact with one another. organizational behavior, if you will. i go into...
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Status: Message successfully sent To: info@essexgreen.com Subject: i picked you over genocide dear the essex green: I know the subject line seems alarming. Before you call the police, the Pentagon, or Human Rights Watch, let me assure you that i never have intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial,...
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i’m not sure how i feel when something (or someone) is taking over my life. you can call it a reliance problem or an independence problem but once i start getting too dependent on something (or someone) i sort of freak. (see: all past relationships). my only consolation is that i may not be...
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I work in a building in the center of the city in which I live. In fact, to make it easier for verbose people like me, the part of the city in which I work is known to many as “center city.” In this place called center city, my building’s corner is like the...
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some of you may know that my (self-imposed) goal for the year is to read 50 books. You can see what i’ve read here. In addition to those books, I have about 7 other books that are half complete. I used to have an OCD manager who told me that I needed to work...
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Warning: Download the MP3 but chances are you’ll get sick of it before Columbus Day.
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oh, i didn’t? well, now i did. (go blue!)
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Dear The Snark: Hi, how are you doing today? I know you only have six (6) minutes to read this letter so i will try to be short. Your column cracks me up. Though i am not a cog myself in the BigLaw machine, I am in the business of “trading cogs.” In short,...
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Status: Message successfully sent To: untoward@asofterworld.com, thisisfurious@asofterworld.com Subject: a fan’s plea hi joey & emily: i’ve been a linker to your site for a long, long while. i’d call myself a reader of your site but i can’t promise that i read it everyday. just sometimes. but over a number of years. like, if...
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