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It was explained to me that I am going to run my coordinator out of a job. He wasn’t in again today to answer questions that topside had about our program. He wouldn’t have been able to answer...

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I feel inspired to paint. I can feel that itch stirring. I was admiring the artwork in the hotel lobby yesterday. I am going to have to check on my inventory. I stopped painting the moment it d...

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I can’t sleep. My mind is racing about work. I feel like my brain is trying to manifest another promotion offer. We haven’t had a Programs Director since January. If that position opens up, I wi...

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There was a meeting with the new Youth Manager and all the top executives about our programs. He was filling us in a bit, but then told us that the Assistant Director went on and on about me. Sh...

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I’m failing to regulate It’s hot as balls out. I’m on the tail end of a cold. I have been up since 3:30 this morning. Things are getting to me today. I had it under control until I didn’t. This...

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We were the flag carriers for the opening ceremony. There were 1000 people in the room, and I wasn’t nervous until I saw that my +1 made it to my table. My organization held a huge event to ho...

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Well, I booked my flight to BC for the end of August. I am going for 10 days. I’m visiting my brother and my nephews. I have zero interest in sightseeing. I’ve never cared about BC in my life. T...

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Holy fork balls I might have secured my program 600k from another funder to fund my program for four years. We are the most underfunded program at my organization. I don’t think we are underfun...

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The best-case scenario for my car fell through. When I called on Saturday, the woman didn’t understand my perfectly good English. This is Canada now. I knew this was going to go well after that....

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Tomorrow is the battle with my car. Today, I decided to take on my ribbon shirt. I spent a few hours trying to figure out that damn sewing machine. You know mansplaining? Shelaborates. I felt li...

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Car trouble was not on my bingo card for today. Yesterday I had a moment when I couldn’t turn my car on. Today, I couldn’t get it to turn off. I pulled up to my gym, and it wouldn’t turn off. ...

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Yesterday, we had a mini-event at work that I put together. I was so nervous that everything would fall apart, but it didn’t. I watched Wilfred Buck’s documentary on Crave and then reached out t...

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The saga continues. Our office lost another employee—a coordinator. The one from the program I look up to. He led with soul. There was nobody better at what he did. He had a strong relationship ...

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I was worried that insomnia was going to be a mini-series for me. It wasn’t a problem last night. I got more than two hours of sleep. I could feel that I was running on adrenaline the whole day....

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I’m tossing and tortured till dawn. The honeymoon phase is over. I’m starting to have animosity toward work. I cannot sleep because my brain decided that I needed to be upset at my boss. Rage i...

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All I need is time. A moment that is mine. I can be intense. I try to edit myself for world peace, but my face acts like subtitles. I don’t want to be toxic, but I want to be toxic. I’m not a...

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I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I was being carved out from the inside. The pain was crippling. Literally, I could not move. This is what happens when I eat bread, but even tha...

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[Drama: A Tom Production] Week one of my candida cleanse: Complete. It was awful. It will be awful again this week. It will be awful for the rest of my life at this rate. I’m at a breaking poin...

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I just made my roommate clean up after herself before she left for work. How many more business days do you plan on soaking your dishes for? I asked. Where? She asked as she spun around in a cir...

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The coordinator can coordinate that one. Are we good? Or am I reading too much into that comment? My coordinator asked me. He had a hurt look on his face. I felt like a monster. I owned up to ...

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My coordinator wants to move up in the organization. He would take it. He would take the job offer I was given. He wouldn’t be loyal to our program. He did give me his blessing. It pays $3 mor...

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Being offered a promotion was not on my bingo card for today. I got a text from the Assistant Director asking if I had a minute to talk. When she called me, she told me that someone had said I...

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We are doing some land-based learning today for work. For the rest of the week, actually. I don’t know what we have in store today, but I do know a bit about what we are learning throughout the ...

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I finally made it to a community walk. They do them on Sundays now, and I don’t have to bank time, so I can leave in the middle of my shift to go on a Tuesday or Thursday. In case we don’t know,...

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They need to just die. Just off themselves. They contribute nothing to society. These are actual things my roommate says in conversations. She is a very toxic person. She doesn’t see how that la...

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