Know Your Rights

The first amendment only goes so far. One topic I will never write about too explicitly on this weblog is my employer. In these posts you won't discover much about my line of business, except that I work in an office.

Because I have this nightmare: I'm sitting in a dimly lit room with a cheerless ACLU attorney. He's reading through a printout of this weblog, while checking the terms of my employment, and quietly clearing his throat every 15 minutes. Nearby in the waiting area a hairy man in American-flag lingerie is busy rolling a cigarette.

To avoid that fate I can't write too directly about my job.

But I can strongly recommend the BBC import 'The Office'. The show consistently nails the awkward, almost unbreathable banality and seriousness of office life. It's painfully funny. Friends suggested it for quite a while. I finally hunted down the DVD rental of the first season -- it's not easy to obtain in Cincinnati.