As I stocked dried pineapple bits this ‘morn at my grocery store, the big boss came over to “chat.” As soon as the words “let go” and “slow sales” exited his mouth, I coveted the wretched place I disdained only yesterday.
I couldn’t form a sentence without tearing up like a schmuck. They hired me as [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 31, 2008
Happy New Year’s, You’re Fired! Assholes.
December 30, 2008
Putting that journalism degree to work at the grocery store
Returning home from China, career-wise, has been slap in the face. And by that I mean, I couldn’t find a steady job for five months. Granted, before getting hitched last month, I was living in Michigan, our country’s worst-off state, but, still, I felt like a loser. (Un?) Luckily, when I moved to Chicago last [...]
December 26, 2008
Cheap and Married. In Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Mark–my longtime boo–and I tied the knot. First, at our destination wedding in Zihuatanejo, Mexico this November and then in an Illinois courthouse. Both affairs were cheap. Well, in the way American weddings can be, which is still expensive. But really wonderful.
My Mexican wedding dress looked strikingly similar to a recent Vera Wang number…about $2000 cheaper. You [...]
