Workers of the world
The other day, my intern Friday and I were home working and started to get a bit fretful and snappy. Normally I pride myself on maintaining a positive work environment so I was really disappointed with myself for letting things slide like that, and resolved to take drastic steps. Given that it was a beautiful sunny day, the natural course of action seemed to be for me to take Friday outside for a stimulating walk.
Here at My Life and Thoughts, we are all about occasionally letting the staff see the light of day—but only when they feel like it. Join us on our three-part epic journey:
In other news from how I’m super-tapped in to the heartbeat of today’s minimum-wage workers, I hear the cleaning staff at a certain important New York city publication has been leaving coded messages regarding the true place of The Possessed in the ranks of world literature:
“Look at this! Elif’s book and War and Peace mysteriously found each other on my bookshelf! do you think the nighttime cleaning staff did it?” (from Eben Shapiro, via the charming and versatile Fiona St. Claire)
Thanks, guys!
Tags: cats, Lauren Mechling, outsourcing, THE POSSESSED, Tolstoy
March 9th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
oh my god cutest cat in san francisco.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
So good that he comes with a built in handle.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
That’s it. I like your voice so much I’m going to google NPR until I find someone who says your name out loud, so I can hear how to pronounce it, so I can tell people about it.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
your cat is so like my cat, when he says no it means hell no i won’t go..this was the cutest thing i ever saw..
March 10th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I suspect Friday didn’t want to go out because he knew he had to tuck the two books together. And Leo liked the idea!
March 12th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
We have a harness for our cats just like that. They act pretty much the same way when we try to take them out.