First, I’d like to note that a great many people work on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and a number of other religious or secular holidays that some of us take for granted. Emergency services personnel, hospital staff, gas station attendants, some grocery store employees, toll booth workers, televisions and radio production staff, the little elves [...]
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So. For the first time in my life, my holiday plans are entirely up to me. Jesus, that’s scary. Realizing that no one else can tell you what to do is simultaneously the most freeing and freakishly frightening part of being an adult…or, well, of being me. Early 30s, employed, divorced grad student in a long-distance [...]
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In the second grade, I demanded the right to join a Little League team. I’ve never been an athlete and I didn’t want to be one then — I managed to play second base without picking my nose and I got one hit all season, but I was there. And I was there because someone [...]
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Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it. Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word? Prospective client: Yes. Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it. at Clients from Hell *** Divine Twine, for when your packages [...]
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