I am a 31 year old New Yorker who has recently emerged from his quarter-life crisis as a semi-confident young man. Follow my pursuance of an M.A. in Secondary English Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, my attempts (and recent strides) towards carving out a writing career, my crazy employment history, the insane and insanely-amazing people I meet/know, (mis)adventures in pair-bonding, and the crap I get myself involved with/in, because apparently, I'm sort of interesting.

Posts Tagged: Work

Brilliant!

Brilliant!

  • Me: Hey Sean, Taryn just admitted to eating baby food.
  • Sean: So? Robocop ate baby food.

  • Female customer on Phone: I'd like to buy tickets online for tomorrow.
  • Me: Sure! You can get them through Brownpapertickets.com!
  • Customer: Can you transfer me?
  • Me: I cannot transfer you to the Internet, Miss, but I can give you their phone number if you'd like!

  • Elderly Woman calling my job on the phone just now: "What's your name?"
  • Me: Jacob
  • Her: WHat?
  • Me: Jacob
  • Her: Chris?
  • Me: No... I don't know where you got THAT from... it's Jacob... son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, father of Jacob. I'm the guy who wrestled the angel and became Israel.
  • She got it after that