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so far my favorite thing about my new manager is that he LOVES inside jokes. I accidentally called my teammates “guts” instead of “guys,” caught myself but called it out, and now he’s starting his emails that way. previously he was “Monsieur Segue” for similar reasons.
sitting with my new team, can see my old team, feeeeeeeels
I just learned how to count in binary on my hands. whaaaaa
while introducing a new teammate my group got into who was the most hardcore gamer, and it escalated around the table until it got to my former boss, who goes, “you heard of this Minesweeper thing? totally into that.”
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
Anna Quindlen’s Short Guide to a Happy Life – her fantastic cancelled Villanova commencement address on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist. (via explore-blog)
everything the light touches is our kingdom
today we learned that my dark imagination comes from a teddy bear inside me, a twisted creature referred to only as teddy, and his theme song is monster by imagine dragons
we are now Monsieur Segue and the Minions
there are some people whose presence I can track like a hound through the hallways. oh yes, he’s been here. not ten moments past. spoilers: it’s cologne