Sublime

She sat back and crossed her long legs and looked at each of them, one at a time. Trying to get a read on her performance. One of those types, the mayor thought, who needs to feel loved by the people who hate her the most. Or at the very least, loved by the people who feel that she’s full of shit. Or was that him? Fuck. That was him.

The carport had tandem parking spaces. That’s good, I thought. My hospice nurse can park on the left.

Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.

I’m a balding, failed comedian with no savings who lodges with a seventy-eight-year-old tinned soup collector.

Here are some of the best hiring heuristics I discovered this year:

• Good people speak in specifics: They can simultaneously look at the big picture and put their boots to the ground. When they zoom into the work, they’ll mention details you never even thought to consider. Beware of charismatic people who only speak in lofty abstractions. 

• Excepti

she was seeking confidence and stability in her own sense of taste.