Archive for the ‘lightly fictionalized’ Category
July 28th, 2008
“All right, well, I think you’ve got some potential,” my new boss said, rising. I stood as well and shook his hand. “I think you’ve got a good skillset here that we can really work with.”
“Thank you,” I said. “This certainly beats the retail and fast food circuit.”
He laughed. “We’ll see what you say after you’ve been making the drive for a year.”
“Well, Andy said you guys were going to implement telecommuting in the near future, so that should help.”
“No, we’re talking about that. We have some things to work out, so don’t plan on that.”
“Oh.” (more…)
July 18th, 2008
It began as a thousand whispers in the back of a cavern; that is to say it was manageable. Strange, certainly, but in an almost-pleasant sunshine-and-snow kind of way. An inconvenience at worst.
As the morning progressed he became more distracted. The whispers became wisps flying circles around his brain. Every thought was burdened with the risk of being carried off and hidden away, buried in the darkness. He fought to remain staring off into space.
The drive terrified him. The wisps had to call out to be heard over the rumble of traffic. His vision, while unaffected, seemed to be at the same time tinged with a haze, covered by the thinnest possible curtain. His hearing, too, seemed touched by the ghostly nuisances.
Once he was inside the building, the wisps had evolved into dwarves singing bar tunes and brawling. In another half hour, they had started mining his brain.
So he gave in and poured himself a cup of coffee.
July 10th, 2008
I’m a few hours late today. Oops! See, some crazy stuff transpired over lunch that kept me tied up…
I went to Burger King with a couple coworkers, mostly for the Big Kids Meal which came with a Pokemon stuff. It was kind of a long wait for the food, apparently because the Pikachu that was supposed to go in my meal freaked out and climbed into the ceiling. I guess he thought he was food or something, but they eventually talked him down and gave him to me. He’s a cute lil bugger! Just wrapped himself around my leg until we got to the car, where he collapsed on my lap.
It was two minutes back to work, but it turns out that’s a power nap for this one. When I opened the door, he jumped onto my shoulders, and as we walked back to the office, he climbed me like a monkey would climb an Ent. Luckily for me, his claws aren’t as sharp as my cat’s.
He freaked out at all the computers. His hair started to stand up, so I grabbed him and ran him to the bathroom. When he unleashed all the stored energy, it took out the lights. I’ll admit that I yelled louder than I probably should have, but climbed back up on my shoulders and seemed to settle down.
Unfortunately, my lunch break was over by then, hence the lack of a blog.
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