Tag: work
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Winter Cedes To Onions
Everyone else has been getting snow days–we’re at what is hopefully the bitter end to an uncharacteristic late winter cold and snow snap. Temperatures have been up and down for weeks, hitting well below 0 degrees Farenheit zero (-18 C) on multiple occasions and, until the past weekend, ascending above freezing for just two days…
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I Won’t Be In To Work Today; Committed Suicide Last Night
http://witlessdatingafterfifty.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/incredible-excuses-for-sick-days/comment-page-1/#comment-15554 I once had an employee call in dead. Not sick, but dead. When he didn’t show up for his shift I called his apartment. His room-mate answered and went to get him–but came back to the phone and said “he’s not here, and he’s not outside at the bus stop so he must be…
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Bonus Poetry For National Poetry Month: Gil Scott Heron
My 303rd post, but my first special request–enjoy–but you know you could have googled this, right? Gil Scott Heron imprinted on the American psyche with “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”–a seminal rap, spoken-word poem tour do force that most people recognize from history class and vaguely associate with the 1960s (much of which was…
Old Road Apples 