She plans to wake up early to practice piano and pack her lunch. She plans to go out jogging before cooking dinner. Hit and miss, 3 out of 5. She still puts on a good show, on stage on weekend nights.
My boss is late this morning, I think he’s got a hang over. He plans to […]
Cleared out a good patch of forest today, copying documents after documents of assorted numbers. My boss wanted 3 copies of 4 binders for a meeting with a big shot. Munching on a piece of bread for lunch, I occupied two desk-tops, figuring out what goes where under the pressure of a ticking businessman’s wrist […]
My boss took me and two others to a fancy lunch today, to celebrate Secretary’s Day.
“Do you shave your head every day?” one of the girls asked boldly.
We raised our eyebrows, laughed out loud, continued to joke about bald this, bald that, my boss’s face a little red with the unexpected attention to the state […]
On one end sat the executive team, on the other end, the Japanese team. The meeting took place for better or for worse, through my translation.
“They are saying ‘there is great potential to distribute branded goods in Japan, although I do not care much for brands myself.’”
“Ayumi…. I don’t think they meant for you to […]
A boy stood in the way of train doors closing, looking a bit dazed in the manic confusion of a Thursday morning rush hour, where both children and adults pushed elbow to elbow. I was close to pulling the boy’s arm out of harm’s way, when he looked at me, then outside, and in great stature, welcomed his mother whose panting breath […]
This time, we ordered too much food.
Not many employees would take it home, so we asked the local homeless shelter.
A young happy man with bleached hair came in,
and left with a moon load of warm food.
Sat in on a meeting in the Board Room just now, took a few extra notes as I also listened for words that might be good band names. Here are some creative vocabulary that spurred out of this business meeting:
Resurrecting bone yard
Grandfathered in
Open game
Go No Go
Data pollination
Line in the sand
Finite channels
Hot button
Intangible score card
Hard trigger
Low hanging […]
A flashback of an incident, laughed to myself at the dinner table.
Last Friday I went to see the parking lot security guard at our office building. “So you’re the new assistant? How long have you been working here?” he asked. “One and a half months” I answered, to which he made a very sour face. […]
Maneuvering through this whirl-wind of information in my cubicle,
signing “Sincerely,” to those who I keep a professional distance,
I take refuge in this sliver of time when I can write straight from the heart.
“I want to be dooooone!”
Once a month, my Japanese co-worker and I order food for ‘employee appreciation lunch’. Our first attempt to feed all 86 employees ended in disaster, having calculated an average of 2.5 slices of pizza each. The first wave of a hungry work force averaged 4 slices on thier plates, leaving the rest of the crew […]
