Truisms for a Friday
1. Writing is fun. Writing for others is less fun. Writing for others under stringent deadlines is the least fun imaginable.
2. Cold, day-old coffee is still coffee.
3. Experimenting with fonts is a great way to waste time when the report’s due in an hour.
4. Despite implications to the contrary, editors of English-language magazines are not always fluent in English.
5. There is never enough time to call everyone back in for another photo shoot.
6. Aging actresses have issues. Ignore them.
7. Fax machines lend a cachet of professionalism to the incompetent (e.g. “I can’t find that press release you sent me. Can you fax over another?”).
8. There comes a point when the artistic and moral satisfaction you receive from a job are outweighed by the realization that it pays shit.
9. Kit-Kat clocks are endlessly entertaining.
10. Postal employees have become nicer now that everyone’s pointing the finger at 10th graders.
11. You are in a constant state of dicking over someone. Get over it.
12. Jokes about Suzanne Somers are almost never funny. Jokes about Suzanne Pleshette are typically hilarious.
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