Crumbling flints quake's deciphered roam— Clench fury! Quench crackled! Drench, harvest, and stone. Raze slumped companions to heights dredged as slumber. Bereave bland escape. Confront doorways thrice-plundered.

Asleep past feud's blinking... Awash with earth's sinking... Awake to hate's gravel... Abate torment's rabble...

Curl bones past wooled thickets, and scrape lost eye's drone. Fence rebellion in gurgles that choke, blight, and hone.

Bring us home! Bring us home! Bring us home to the vale! Draw our steps, cold and bearded. Till where journeymen flail. Flag each ridge darned as clusters too slanted to save. Bring us home! Bring us home! Dream us out of wait's grave.

Humble each squint as mistake's churlish loam— Stitch purely! Midge spiteful! Descend, shake, and foam! Barrel traditions ignited to stutter. Beseech rankled fate. Debase unraveled blunder.

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I might sell one of my cars. i won’t say which one. i just got tired of it, i suppose thats just how i deal with most things, if i don’t like something anymore, i get rid of it. easier than figuring out why i don’t like it. Lately I’ve been trying to figure out what everyone means when they talk about happiness. Oh, happiness that, that or that. people make it sound simple all the time. Oh, do the things you enjoy, spend time with people you love. Oh, pfft. find something “meaningful,” go outside. sleep properly, blah blahs. whatever else people say when they have successfully experienced happiness and would like to make it sound like a tutorial. I’ve tired some of that “tutorial”. nothing happened. i dont know what is wrong with me. i remember being happy before, i know how it feels like to wake up without being chained in your bed because you’ll choke yourself in your sleep, i know how it feels when your own mind isnt something you have to be careful around. thats what i hate. that i know how it feels like to be that, yet. i dont have that anymore. i don’t know when i lost it, i just know i did. i can’t even convince myself that this is just how i am now. whatever is wrong with me seems to have become very good at taking up all the space. And unfortunately, i don’t want to start drinking or smoking again just to feel something different. that would be more exhausting. anyways, let me tell you how to be happy since, clearly, im an expert. Yes, me i wont organize it. just deal with it and go by my steps. step one: wake up happy. step two: continue being happy. step three: if you stop being happy, remember that happiness is a choice. step four: go outside and look at a tree, trees seem to make people very emotional these days for unknown reasons. step five: tell everyone how grateful you are for the little things. step six: take a picture of your pissed coffee and write something about being blessed, whatever, something like “ Had my overpriced little bean water this morning. couldnt survive without it ” there. happiness, that’ll work. step seven: become the kind of person who says, “life is beautiful,” before 9 am. Nobody who says that should be trusted. but they are doing better than us. and step eight: if none of that works, you’re probably just not trying hard enough.

Step nine and finally. this is a special one. that you specifically need to know: keep reading. HAHAHAHsk, you actually made it this far. look at you, eight whole fucking steps of me explaining how to be happy, Me. and you kept reading like there’s going to be a secret at the end. how pathetic. you could’ve stopped at step one but you didn’t. you humans always make me laugh, i mean seriously. its incredible how dumb you can be while pretending to be smart. you always make me laugh.

Honestly, I’d do very well writing a book about happiness. title it “How To Be Happy” there, im practically qualified already. happy people would love it. they’d pay for it. which is convenient, because i guess happiness has a subscription fee. but whatever, just gave you steps for free, didn’t i?

Sincerely, Happily Miserable.

If a company keeps a person working as a temp for more than three months it should be mandatory for the company to hire them full time. Anything beyond that is exploitative of the agency who is paying them, and also the company where they are doing the work. Three months is enough time to determine if a person is capable of doing the work required. If they have been working steadily for that length of time then obviously there was a position that needed to be filled.

Three months is also reminiscent of earlier times in the blue collar world when a company would take on a new hire, but they would be in a three month probationary period. If they seemed a fit for the job after doing it for three months; the perks of being a full time employee would kick in. Like a pay raise, vacation time, medical and dental benefits, and the opportunity to participate in a group retirement plan. If they were not so great they would be let go. The way it is now companies can keep people on as temps for years. They never get those perks.

I worked as a temp six times in the last fifteen years. Four of those jobs hired me full time. I've been at the last one that hired me full time for nine years now. The two that did not hire me full time likely would have if I had stayed. I just saw what they were like after working there as a temp, and didn't like what I saw. So I left. The ones where I was hired, and then later on quit, seemed okay at the time of my hiring, but they turned to shit later on. All at about two years.

The job where I am now was a much better place to work when I started as a temp. I've watched it steadily decline to what it is now.

Someone wise once said that if the bad days at work start to outnumber the good days then you know it is time to move on and find something else. Honestly, I'm not there yet. I bitch about it a lot, but sometimes it is tolerable.

Hmmm... I guess I've veered off the path. I do that a lot. I started this post about how temps are being exploited, and now that I've typed things about it I find myself wishing I was a temp so I could just walk away from my job without really losing anything. As it is though I get 4 weeks paid vacation, and benefits, plus I've been putting money into the group retirement plan. If I were to leave, those things would go away. So really I'm just forcing myself to stay in a toxic unfulfilling job for benefits, vacation time, and money... lol Happy Labour Day!

I have a lot to do. It's 3:49am and a good time to think about it.