Aprés moi

"I like it when they dress up like middle managers," said Nakajima, twirling her girlish pigtails with one alabaster finger. "You know, with the sweat-stained dress shirts, and the office clipboards, and the khaki pants that are 2 inches too short."

—"Asian Teen has Sweaty Middle-Aged Man Fetish," The Onion

The choice is yours

Remember Work Is Hell?

"Do you take pleasure in adding up column after column of meaningless numbers, or or is your idea ofa good time wading through mountains of bureaucratic gibberish?"

(Via.)

“It’s not what I signed up for.”

For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded.

—"It's the Economy, Girlfriend," NYT

Whoa

The writing style is unconventional but works well. The last section, in particular, uses a literary technique that is incredibly innovative and interesting. I cannot tell you any more without being too much of a spoiler but at the end of the last section you will certainly think to yourself, “Whoa.”

—Sifter X

What's a "personal day"?

Some definitions.

It's like watching an hourglass

...or rather, taking the sand out of an hourglass...and playing with it.

(Via Very Short List)

Chinese whispers

The diet of worms?