Why I still don’t have Internet access at home four months later
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Health, Issues
It’s been four months since I moved back to Toronto for work after a four-month stint living at my dad’s after graduating university and breaking up with a boyfriend.
Until four months ago, I’d had Internet access wherever I was living nearly continuously for over 10 years, maybe more. I feel like I’ve had the Internet [...]
Tags: Cambridge, emotional breakdown, goals, observations, perfectionism, Toronto, web and tech, workaholic
Funemployment ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, mainstream media
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Generation Y
The hottest buzzword surrounding Gen Y in Canadian media this summer has to be “funemployed.” That is, choosing to be unemployed to do things they’ve always wanted to do, such as travel, pursue hobbies and, if the mainstream media would have you believe it, move back in with Mom and Dad to have a riotous [...]
Tags: "real" jobs, bias, Gen Y, media, newspaper industry, observations, university
My life in the Twilight Zone
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Randomness
Today was one of those absolutely bizarre days when nothing really bad happened to me, but I saw certain things that made me wonder if I was a character in some kind of sci-fi or psychological thriller.
I woke up late. Left the apartment late. OK, that’s not so stange, but I forgot my glasses and [...]
Tags: commute, observations
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