Boots & Kittens

May 17

Officially done with the test prep day job/industry:

And it feels GREAT.

May 16

Things I did not expect to ever see Instagrammed: surgery pictures.

Because I’m a fool, and of course this terrible thing was always going to happen, no matter what.

May 15

The business opportunities just keep on coming.

One more day of the Bad Job. It is a long one, a twelve-hour one. But after that, it will just a few, petty hours Friday morning where I’ve now been instructed basically not to touch anything. So I will have to move up my plan of licking all my company-owned technology before sending it back to sometime tomorrow afternoon, if I’m to properly tie up loose ends.

Storm in Santa Fe, NM

Guess what happened next—that’s right, it rained. A lot.

May 14

When daytime gets this dark blue, you remember that the sky is just a clever disguise for Outer Space. Terrifying, terrifying Outer Space.

Boss just asked if I’d be “open” to having my exit call a few hours after my shift ends on my last day

… which is to say I typed the entire lyrics of “When Doves Cry” so that they created a beautiful acrostic poem that read “NO” as many times as possible.

May 13

Number of jackrabbits I have seen run past the window behind my computer this morning:

More than “are you kidding absolutely zero it is just the half-lit Burger King sign,” so, you know: nature.

Downside of doing my last week in New Mexico is 6am shifts, but the place sure does its part to make it worth it.

May 10

This is my favorite of recent coverage on The Millennial Job Sads.

Realized that because I’ll be in New Mexico next week, today is actually my last day working from home in my actual home. Which is great news, because it means that my home can go back to being headquarters for eating, sleeping, and avoiding reality! But it also meant that I realized I should take advantage of the benefits of working from home, being cheap takeout and an ability to do my laundry whenever. Then I dropped some serious bills on the bike and wrote this post instead of answering emails because it is actually getting scary in there and I more or less see my inbox like that 8-minute horror movie about student debt.

May 9

“In the centre of it all was me, the guy from Law and Order [Editor’s note: We believe Kellen is referring to Sam Waterston, the actor who played Nick Carraway in the 1974 film version], and my cousin, whose name I forget. Anyway, I think she was in love with Gatsby, otherwise know as the Great Gatsby, or he was in love with her. He was really rich, but also kind of sad because he didn’t know so many things. He thought that San Francisco was the Midwest, for example. One day, we went over to his house and he threw all these expensive shirts at us. They were beautiful shirts, but his desire for us to be impressed with them was disproportionate to their quality. Also, we went to his library and noticed that none of his books had ever been opened, because it was olden days and in olden days you could tell if a book had been opened or not by a weird piece of paper.”

Re-writing The Great Gatsby from Memory | Ballast

Stand-up comedian Kellen Powell was asked to re-write, from memory, Fitzgerald’s masterwork and the result is, well, delightful.

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Say what you will about the Baz Luhrmann, it has spawned some really wonderful stuff on the internet.

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