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Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, Wellness Style
Always Early, Always Forgotten The other day, I became a statue in a chiropractor’s waiting room.Not on purpose. It just happened. I checked in early, like I always do. “Early” is my brand — it’s my toxic trait, my unpaid internship in punctuality. I slid into a chair by the side table stacked with glossy magazines. Not…
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Engineer's Corner | Essays | Series | Stories
GONE WITH THE FLESH
Episode 1: The Ester Problem The song was terrible. “Armies of hungry people, bodies made of flesh,Marching like ants and they never rest…” It crackled through Zack’s phone speaker as we walked the shoulder of Highway 12, pine trees crowding the road on both sides. “Turn it off,” I said. “It’s vintage,” Zack said. “Old…
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The Day I Hired Myself
To Fix My Own Damn Website There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes that the people who built the software she relies on were absolutely not breastfed long enough. Mine arrived somewhere between the sixth 404 error, the third phantom paywall from WordPress-but-not-WordPress, and the part where SaaS monster tried to convince…
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