Rainy Monday dog-walking daylight-savings blues OR Good News for People Who Love Bad News

{horn intro} This small town and the darkness of an artificial evening can hold space for a middle-aged woman walking her dog and scream-crying [and dancing] to the soundtrack of her adultification. For 48 minutes and 50 seconds, I am transported to the beginnings of figuring out how to be alive in this world. AndContinue reading “Rainy Monday dog-walking daylight-savings blues OR Good News for People Who Love Bad News”

Mediations on “Process,” OR the ratchet of linear time and the clockwork universe

Recently, I started a new job with a vague and fancy title. I am a Process Architect, specifically a Business Process Architect. Now, as titles go, I understand how pompous and jargon-y it is. I have worked in IT and IT-adjacent fields for over 15 years, and I know that the words we use –Continue reading “Mediations on “Process,” OR the ratchet of linear time and the clockwork universe”

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”: tales of a mid-level bureaucrat of the apocalypse

For my last 20 years of gainful employment I have been a public sector employee for all but two of them, having spent only 16 months of my life employed in the private sector to the exclusion of the public sector. Most of that public sector work has been as a knowledge or IT workerContinue reading ““I’m from the government and I’m here to help”: tales of a mid-level bureaucrat of the apocalypse”