Jun
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2015
And the scenery tilts · 3:21am Jun 14th, 2015
For five years, I've had to make like Sisyphus pushing that damned un-Tom-like boulder up the steepest slope I could imagine, in an effort to get out from under the heaviest -- well, the most expensive, anyway -- burden I've ever been stupid enough to inflict upon myself.
And it's all over except for the last bang of the gavel. Life still costs too much; but at least I can afford it again.
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Dusty Sage · 278 views
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I'm on a roll. Everything that's been thrown at me, I've been able to swat away or simply to outlast. Since there's nothing particularly special about me, I have to assume that this is possible for everypony.
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It certainly sucks. I spent three years in unemployment limbo, working the occasional temp job and trying to stay sane. And I spent the first of those three years contemplating which bridge abutment to slam into at 85 mph. Institutionalization was required for a while.
Still, I persist, if only to toss off the occasional eight-syllable word. And as Bud Dry commercials used to say, "Why ask why?" Then again, you don't see Bud Dry in stores anymore.
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Ah, corporate incompetence. Sometimes I think it makes the world go 'round.
Maybe I'm better off because my dreams were kind of unspecific. I wound up doing something I couldn't imagine was even being done; but I'm afforded considerable autonomy and I'm largely left alone to get the job done. More than that, I shan't ask.