Haiku to Yetzirah

I never got my 1099 from the state for my unemployment from last year. I figured they didn’t technically have to be mailed until the last day of January, so I gave the statement until the end of the first week of February to arrive. It didn’t. I tried a couple of times last week…

I’ve come down with a cold. I went to bed with just a wee bit of a scratchy throat, but woke up around two o’clock with the sweats and the swallows. I’m just hoping I’ve caught it early enough to be over it by the twenty-second. I flew when I had a cold early this…

Adolescent Cat from Hell must be going through some sort of personal security crisis at the moment. When she was a kitten, she liked to sit on my shoulder. I encouraged this – I thought it was cute and it made my little black heart melt whenever she sought me out so she could sleep…

I’m sitting here at Big Name Book Store behind the charity gift wrap table. I am by myself. That’s pretty nearly literal, as the store is nearly devoid of customers. At least half of the non-employees who are here are located in the café drinking stuff out of tall white paper cups with sippy lids…

I get a weekly update from USA jobs of openings the government has in my specialty. Most would require moving a fair distance, but I keep my eyes open just in case one were to become available within commutable distance. I was fairly surprised yesterday evening when the weekly update appeared in my inbox indicating…

Which Brady Bunch kid are you most like? I think I’m beginning to get disgusted with myself.