Just nabbed a very-part-time job “hosting” at Hollyhock. This seems to imply keeping the coffee bar stocked, cleaning and tidying, and greeting guests and driving them and their stuff to their rooms in a golf cart. Doing what i love best – making people comfy and solving their little problems. The shifts include a Hollyhock …
Category: Culture and Art
The mobile technology
i am digging the mobile technology. mesmerized by the subtle elemental equations. The weight, the colour, the materials, shape and motion. the kitchen mobile was bicycle spokes and red embroidery thread, small arborite counter sample tiles in oak panel and leather and high-gloss black, terracotta and luscious deep red. And tiny wooden clothespins. And best …
Clockwatchers
I once spent a summer working for Commercial Union Life Assurance. I always wondered how life could be assured. But I never bothered to ask. The company sprawled across several floors in the Toronto Dominion Center, three black glass towers full of grey-faced slaves. I wore a skirt and pantyhose on the subway in the …
The Devices
I noticed today as I walked out the door, to hike in the forest, how good i felt, how physically light, how free… My phone left on its charger, laptop in its case on the floor. I know what benefits these devices give me, I don’t need to be sold – I bought in. I’m …
Urban working nomads
I like being an urban working nomad. Letting go of the geographical anchor of my office (which was funky and i loved it) was tough but it has shifted my patterns in interesting directions. I’ve always liked working in cafes, the right level of ambient distraction, with enough impetus to leave for me to maintain …