Mon 27 Feb 2006
Karissa is my new friend and co-worker. She embodies that line from the Billy Joel song, “Always a Woman to Me”, “she is frequently kind and she’s suddenly cruel”. Except that with Karissa it is the other way around, “she is frequently cruel and suddenly kind.”
Karissa takes no crap. She is the quintessential New Yorker, impatient with a low threshold for the inept, demanding, incredibly capable, and loads of fun. When she needs you at work, she calls out your name, “May -tuh”. Only time will tell whether Karissa adapts to Spain or whether Spain will have to adapt to Karissa. I thoroughly enjoy the time I get to spend with her.
April 11th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
[…] Ella loves me. Every time I go to Karissa’s house to visit my beautiful little Ella, she (Ella, not Karissa) gets so excited to see me that she pees right there on the spot. And it’s immediate. She tries to hold it. I know she does. But the moment I touch her, she instantly lets it out into a little puddle on Karissa’s floor. Isn’t that sweet? It’s been a long time since another living soul has wet herself just by my mere presence. At least not to my knowledge. […]
April 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
[…] From Thursday morning to Friday evening, I was in Germany and Sweden for work. Both days required early mornings and late nights. On Friday night, I had a dinner with Beatriz where we finally got to meet each other. Like dueling swordsman (reminded me of the duel in the Princess Bride, “I am not left handed either”), we fought to see who could talk the most and the longest. We also had a funny encounter with Italians. Then on Saturday, I had to rush to Karissa’s house to take care of Ella for the remainder of the weekend. For what it’s worth, I am not cut out to take care of a puppy. As a matter of fact, while I try to write this, Ella is trying to catch my attention by putting a saliva stained tennis ball in my lap. I also got to put dog fecies into little plastic bags. That’s not something that I enjoy, especially when it is wet and warm. Meanwhile I have 83 work-related and unread emails from today (Sunday) alone. Hence, the distraction that inhibits the following posts: […]
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
[…] Esta semana ha sido corta y además el miembro con más poder de decisión en el Comité ha estado malito. Sin embargo, el Comité sí ha podido reunirse via video-conferencia para decidir la concesión de este galardón. El Comité, según sus normas internas oscurantistas, ha decidido conceder este Premio al Mejor Compañero de Trabajo de la Semana a nuestra compañera, en ésta su última semana, a Karissa . . . […]