Yesterday I left my research assistant`s job that was giving me a lot of headache and back pain. The lady that I worked for is a relatively accomplished anthropologist who even set up her own Foundation aimed at helping people in India and preserving Earth overall. But somehow in her anxious trying to reduce her Carbon Footprint she awfully reminds me of Al Gore with his lofty speeches and super usage of electricity on a private basis. Her family and her are using a lot of electric devices, consume a lot of products, waste a lot of paper etc (this list can go on and on). For instance, if you come into her office, it is crammed with laptops, flashdrives, palm pilots, lamps, portable ACs etc. It seems like a mega power plant that tirelessly keeps generating and consuming energy at the same time.
So now I feel free because I can do the things I want to do and not waste an hour and a half each day on just commuting to her morbid apartment on the Upper West Side. I don`t have to be afraid to be 10 minutes late and start getting annihillating looks of anger from their daughter/Cerberus who guards their peace and high order. Off go the chains of steady summer gig!
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