Real Life™

Smile, You’re On Camera!

It is good to know that love is not the only thing that can turn me into a gibbering idiot. Although I did not actually gibber during my first ever screen test today, my performance did border on the idiotic. I have a faint hope that this is a feeling similar to hating every first […]

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Murphy Felony

I had a first date last night. A blind date even, or rather, a nearsighted date, since we had already exchanged emails and photographic proof of our existence and appeal. In the 90 minutes between coming home from work and departing for the date, it is always hard to decide in which order to perform […]

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Cardiac Arrest

I had my first job interview with Niels, one of the two founders of the company. He was also the one to tell me the Board’s decision immediately after the third job interview last Friday. Bear in mind that all three interviews went very well, I hit it off excellently with the three CEOs, and […]

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Hurray Delay

Yowza! That’s really the only word. Last Friday, in an uncommonly relaxed and entertaining (day) job interview, my soon-to-be new employer made me an offah I cou’n’t refyoose. New challenges, new responsibilities, new colleagues, new pay level, new company car… I’m so happy I could burst! [THIS POST WAS REVEALED GRADUALLY OVER THE COURSE OF […]

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Gun Control

Nyah nyah nyah! I suppose it’s terribly uncharitable of me to quietly cheer at the sight of fifteen neighborhood kids being rounded up by the police. But I’m pretty sure that every single one of these kids has, at some point, conducted very loud conversations, or revved their cars, or beat up their girlfriends, or […]

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Windfalls and Holes

And to think I don’t even believe in cosmic balance. Or karma. Or any of those what-goes-around-comes-around convictions. Well, haha to me. Yesterday, just before going home from work, I decided to visit to my Internet bank and check on the current state of my overdraft. It should have been a decision between making do […]

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Epiphany

Sometimes all you need for a perfect evening is to get lost on the way home. I took a road less travelled and found myself in corners of my city I’ve never seen before, where old and derelict industrial buildings vie for space with long grass and poppies; where a giant pumping station grows humongous […]

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Momma

Saying I’m a heavy sleeper is like calling Mount Everest a large hill, Albert Einstein a clever fella, the female orgasm a nice feeling. A few years back, a gas leak in an apartment building around the corner lead to a massive explosion in the small hours of the night. The explosion levelled half the […]

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Shiverrr me timberrrrs!

It may not be the most obvious thing to have learned from Charles Brown, but it turned out to be a very useful lesson nevertheless: the proper pronunciation of ‘Arrrrrg!’ Charlie Brown is editor of Locus Magazine, the essential resource for any speculative fiction writer. Like in 2004, he made an appearance at the Writers […]

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You Turn!

Had I lived in LA, I would have undoubtedly died in shooting incidents dozens of times over by now. As things stand, the only thing that suffers from events like the one this afternoon is my adrenaline gland and my faith in the human condition. On the upside, I permit myself a slight feeling of […]

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