If anyone’s been in the workforce for the last decade or so, nothing I say here will likely be surprising, but it’s still something that’s really come into focus for me over the last bit. When I look at how things were pre-COVID and now post-COVID, I have many (many) more meetings than I had […]
I’ve been away from being able to watch new shows for the past 2.5 months, give or take. First my family was in Slovakia, and I didn’t want to watch a new show without them. Then I was with them, and we had other things to do than watch shows. Then Tomas headed to Fiddle
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It’s a quiet day in front of your computer. You’re casually browsing the internet, minding your own business, when out of nowhere, you twitch your mouse to move up to close the tab you’re looking at. “DON’T MISS OUT ON NEW INFORMATION LIKE THIS!!!” The popup window certainly can’t be missed. You sigh, and then
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I’m always pretty down the day after Martin Luther King Day. Why? Because it’s official: the fun season is over. Sure, there are some things still to look forward to. Groundhog Day is coming. The Oscars are at the end of next month. But those are small islands of fun in a vast empty sea
I’m fairly present online. I write this blog every day, I keep track of what my friends are up to on Facebook and Twitter, I scan the news reports as they come out. I consider myself to be pretty “plugged in.” (Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so plugged in at all.) But one thing that
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