I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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I got a postcard in the mail for Granta, a literary journal. On one side it said "Just subscribe, you know you want to." On the other side it said "We promise, no poetry. Ever!"

(sigh) Subscribed.

Discovered one of my favorite books and authors that way:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118585.Into_the_Heart_of_Borneo

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