I’m in Canada at the moment. Potent beer, quite a few occurences of “eh”, and a disturbing (for one born and raised in the desert of southern California) amount of greenery. Plants! Without having to steal water from other states. Imagine that.

I’m well aware that there are many overweight individuals who exercise and try to take care of themselves, whether or not they’re overweight due to personal habit or medical reason. My father himself is a bit overweight but still healthy, taking part in a workplace-sponsored health program in addition to folding more regular exercise [...]

On a whim I bought some salt and vinegar flavored potato chips. “They can’t be that bad,” I thought. “People eat these all the time.” I didn’t actually try them until later that evening. The first chip went in my mouth and, though initially tasty, left a strange and chemical aftertaste [...]

The house I’m in is on one of those pseudo-main roads, a supposed shortcut around the traffic lights that takes longer than the alternative. I was washing the dishes the other night, listening to the traffic drive by, when I notice something from the other side of the kitchen.
Skritch. Tap tap. Skritch.
I [...]

The longer I work at this third-party shipping store, the more accurate my rule-set regarding the nearby population has become. Here are some of the things I’ve encountered lately.

There are individuals who do not know how to address a letter for mailing. I’m talking about people who have lived here their whole lives [...]

I have this theory that people who are out and about before 11:00 am, at least in this neighborhood, are crazy. The longer that I’m working retail the more first-hand evidence of this I collect. Want an example? Not two minutes ago I was waiting on our software to finish loading so [...]

I try not to judge people who come into the store, seeing as how I don’t really have data points to work with save for our brief interactions, but occasionally a customer is particularly chatty. Usually I get nothing more than mundane details about somebody’s life or comments about the news, but the other [...]