Touching base
Stars, lasers and taxi cabs – the glorious (and mixed) metaphors of workplace language
Work life
Museum misfit
Animal impressions, chess addiction and meaningful work – trying to be an upstanding museum worker, with mixed results
CSI Whanganui
Riding the zeitgeist and cleaning toilets – epiphanies while working the nightshift
Evil little cacti
Kiwifruit, Viagra and the gift of rain – on trying and failing to develop a work ethic
School’s out forever
An audio version of “School’s out forever” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the
Without a hitch podcastLeaving high school was hard. Leaving high school again
was even harder.
I was terrified the first time I left high school. The rules and routines of
school held me in suspension
Losing my face
How the New Zealand government dashed my aspirations of becoming an
investigative journalist by capturing my face
The wind was dusting up the Newtown air; it was difficult to see clearly. Taking
refuge in Cash Converters, I slipped between exercise contraptions from nineties
infomercials and walls of sad, scratched compact
The slow thaw of workplace relationships
An audio version of “The slow thaw” is featured in this episode ☝️ of the
Without a hitch podcastMatsui-sensei blinked and wiped the sweat from his eyes.
His curly hair frizzed in the humidity. He wrestled to half-tuck his shirt over
his belly as he introduced himself as my team-teaching associate.