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Thursday, March 3, 2016

The Collective Loneliness

There is no place like Ikea to remind me of the never-ending human condition.
We are all alone, every one of us.
Furtive eyes of people in small groups, looking at other furtive eyes in other groups.
Seeking acceptance?


I am here for the free coffee,  a cheap outing, to buy a frame and to think.
My lecturing position has been advertised. 
This means that the university is basically ensuring that there is no position for me to return to, which will make it easier to fire me once I'm healthy.
In a way, this is a good thing.
I didn't want to go back to all that stress anyway.
But it's the lack of control over significant aspects of my life that gets my goat.




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