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Imagine Sisyphus Happy
So I feel ridiculous complaining about this apartment in any way, because we’ve wanted to own something for ages, and it’s been a long, excessively stressful process to save, and then a long, excessively boring process to get a mortgage. … Continue reading
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Cute Casual Game in “BBQ Roast”
BBQ Roast is a cute browser game with a tasty food theme and a BBQ twist on the usual match-3 gameplay. The graphics in BBQ Roast are cute and fun, reminding me of a Cooking Mama challenge (and I still … Continue reading
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Escape Room: Adult Ed
Escape Room Concept: The players work at an adult-ed program and need to print something in 1 hour before students arrive, but the toner, paper, and printer access code are stored in different locked-away, hidden cupboards, so teachers aren’t wasting … Continue reading
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Gaslamps Gas Giant in “The Mimicking of Known Successes”
The Mimicking of Known Successes, by Malka Older, was the kind of book where I wanted to read faster to discover the mystery (and Pleiti and Mossa’s relationship mystery), but I also wanted to read more slowly to stay longer … Continue reading
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My Double Life
“Oh, since you’re here,” my supervisor said, “Could I ask you something about your resume? Actually, I’ve been meaning to ask you this since we first hired you.” At this point, naturally, my head exploded. What could it be? Does … Continue reading
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I Remember Snow Crash
I don’t usually yearn for Books As Physical Objects. I don’t have great detail vision, so I usually like the large-print, high-contrast of an ebook for comfortable reading. I can read a typical paperback, but it’s enough effort that it sometimes keeps me from drifting off into the bookworld. Continue reading
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And Here’s The Copier Code
In 2007, I was the newest staff member at LCC, and I shared a classroom with a teacher who let me know that she’d had the room’s supply closet organized this way since 1999 and she had no intention of … Continue reading
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The Office: Somehow We Manage
Haven’t done a gaming post in ages, but I have to tell you about the idle game I’m playing on breaks these days. The Office: Somehow We Manage is an iOs idle clicker about everyone’s favorite dysfunctional paper company. Send … Continue reading
Just Thinking About How Fake and Stupid This Sounds:
At our Christmas party in 2019, my then-bosses gave Workbro and me a hard time about nothing. It made me feel really unappreciated at work, so I decided to start looking for a new job. So when I went back … Continue reading
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Beijing Ghost
If You Could See The Sun, by Ann Liang, uses a supernatural invisibility power to tell a moving, realistic story about class, money, and adolescence in Beijing. When teenage “Study Machine” Alice Sun discovers her invisibility power, she immediately puts … Continue reading
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