dichroic | and while I’m at it, get off my lawn!

Sentences you wouldn’t think anyone would ever say, but apparently someone did: “You know what would go good with these pig lungs? Some pineapple, that’s what!”

(Apparently it’s a traditional Hakka dish.)

Sentences you would think someone would say, but they never seem to: “Hey, this thing I’m complaining about other people doing? I do it all the time, myself! Maybe I should quit either the doing or the complaining.”

However, I will not guarantee that I haven’t been guilty of this myself. I think that makes this complaint recursive.

Also, general notice: the past tense of “give” is “gave”. If someone gives you something, we already know it was a “gift”. See how that works? The word “gifted” sets my teeth on edge; it strikes me as a word coined by craft stores or Martha-Stewart-types to try to fancy up something that’s already nice enough and didn’t need it.

While I’m being a crank, I find it a little depressing how many people told me I looked “younger” or “happier” or “renewed” after comng back from Australia. Of course they were all being nice, so I said “Just wait until I’ve been back here for a week!” in a jokey way. But seriously: if being away from work for a couple of weeks is so much better that it even shows in your looks, doesn’t that make a serious point out either this office (doubtful, it’s not a bad place to work) or how we structure jobs and working in general?

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.