Added value showed up after the third coat of colour
Hannah
Wednesday night, and the Business worksheet on added value is open next to a finished badge design I still have not packed. The textbook example is a wooden chair. Mine…
Economics
Six thousand yuan arrived before the price list did
Sunday night, and I finally added the commission transfers the way Business tells us to add a column of numbers. Not because I needed a victory lap. I needed to…
They wanted the drawing I could still change
Tuesday night, and a message came in about a character I had already drawn twice. It was a small commission, the anime-style kind people put on a badge or a…
They called the company a target, which is not how I usually look at one
Monday night, and I went back through the Bank of America virtual internship I finished on The Forage, because the slides were still sitting in a folder named as if…
The cheaper copy came with answers I did not ask for
Friday night, and I finally bought the anthology I have been borrowing from the library in pieces. The shop had a new one with a stiff spine, and a used…
The holiday in the textbook is not the choice I actually have
The Business book used a holiday again. Two weeks at the beach, or a new laptop, and you cannot have both, which is how they introduce opportunity cost. I copied…
UK rates stayed at 3.75%. The next move might be up, not down.
In December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate to 3.75%, and the news sounded like a door opening. I remember the tone more than I remember any graph. It…
Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum said the sentence she always says, the one about the bill, and I almost answered that a lamp…