my teachers used to say they were preparing us for jobs that didn't exist yet, and in hindsight they were probably hoping for "nuclear nano space-robot technician" and not "person who makes a small amount of money putting enormous amounts of personal information on the internet"
Notices by Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to), page 2
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 17:01:21 JST Janel Comeau -
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 00:17:26 JST Janel Comeau I respect screaming babies on airplanes because they're the only ones providing honest feedback about the overall air travel experience
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 15:50:40 JST Janel Comeau we’ve tried giving rich people more money, giving rich people more money, and giving rich people more money, and things are still terrible, so clearly it’s time to try something different (giving rich people A LOT more money)
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 16:42:08 JST Janel Comeau happy birthday to French Husband, a man who happens to be the world’s greatest husband and also very clearly looks like he speaks French from at least 40 metres away
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 23:43:50 JST Janel Comeau just once I want to grow a houseplant as green and healthy and vibrant as the weird scum that grows on the nose pads of my glasses
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 03:14:48 JST Janel Comeau the nice thing about my ADHD is that if my apartment is haunted I will literally never notice it
“silly me, always leaving these cupboards and drawers open and the sink running at full blast,” I say, as a frustrated ghost screams into a pillow in the corner
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 20:04:14 JST Janel Comeau my parents at 30: whew, we weren't expecting to have a third kid and a new car this year, but I think we can swing it
me at 30: I was not expecting to have to replace an extra lightbulb in my home this year and now financial ruin is upon me
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 06:15:53 JST Janel Comeau I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:52:31 JST Janel Comeau I actually measure a year in cups of coffee, so while the rest of you ring in 2024, I’m already halfway through 2028
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 05:23:02 JST Janel Comeau I love reading about the lives of 19th and 20th century writers because it always goes something like "he lived in abject poverty, barely covering the upkeep on his 3-bedroom townhouse in the city by selling two magazine stories per year"
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 00:40:14 JST Janel Comeau welcome to the week after Christmas, the date is sometime between Tuesday and August, a handful of cheese at 4pm counts as a meal, Irish Cream can be consumed between 6am and January and putting on your high school band shirt from your parents’ closet counts as “getting dressed”
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 15:16:19 JST Janel Comeau my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they're like ma'am we're inspectors for the department of health, do you have a permit to operate a dairy restaurant at this address
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 06:15:52 JST Janel Comeau the 6 kinds of classic rock songs:
- I need to get out of this town
- I miss that town
- I’m in love with a girl I can’t have (because she’s with my friend)
- I’m in love with a girl I can’t have (because she’s 15)
- druuuuuuuuuugs
- here is a 43 minute song about wizards -
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 15:48:50 JST Janel Comeau I’m just an executive, standing in front of some small thing that brings you joy in this life, asking how I can completely ruin it for money
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 11:05:48 JST Janel Comeau "young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs"
I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 18:01:35 JST Janel Comeau just a brief history of trying to find housing in Canada
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:21:58 JST Janel Comeau I'm not necessarily saying that my female ancestors escaped shitty marriages with poison but I am saying that I come from a long line of avid gardeners who outlived their husbands by decades
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 23:21:58 JST Janel Comeau begging dudes like this to realize that no-fault divorce and equal pay laws are the only reason that they don’t know what coffee tastes like when it’s sweetened with antifreeze
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 07:43:09 JST Janel Comeau it is October 18th
-
Embed this notice
Janel Comeau (verybadllama@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 11:39:14 JST Janel Comeau someone told me today that young people can't afford homes because we spend all our money on "toys like boats and ATVs" and now I am desperate to meet the one Millennial Hell-Child commuting from their basement apartment in a speedboat and giving us all a bad name