Cube Monkey
Today happened to be my birthday. I wasn't anticipating fireworks. In fact I dread the day now so much I simply wish it would pass by without me noticing. But that's very hard to escape when I had plenty paperwork waiting to be dated on my tiny desk.So what's been up with me lately? My absence from all things online has been long. I find myself enslaved in a tiny cubicle, shackled by the demands of a capitalist corporate world. I can't complain. I thrive when it comes to pressure, deadlines and sign offs. I'm attached on a short term lease to a finance company with plenty of interesting twists in their business which I enjoy. It's in North Bristol, right next to my uni campus. My aim is to perform and out-peform just so I may stick around well into the academic year. With the workload they've shed on me, I know they need all the help they can get.
Hectic it seems, but alas things across the pond didn't seem so busy. I suppose Californians are a bit laid back and not as rigid these Brits. I'm used to plenty of slack and here I have none. I remember those little incentives they used to throw at us for the slightest bit of effort - oh the CDs, DVDs, binoculars, cameras I accumulated - and here, well... you'll be lucky if you get a smile. It's a difference in attitudes and only now are they very apparent to me.
I'm crashing with friends right now in their flat and we are busy on the hunt for a house to share. If you are a landlord looking for decent tenants, do apply. I also wondering if anyone can donate a small car to a needy African (I'm allowed - it's Live 8 anniversary week!) Good runner maybe, cheap on tax and insurance will do me just fine. I'm a bit sick of the erratic buses.
posted by mpenseli @ 9:59 AM
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