2005-11-07 - 8:11 p.m.
I'm frying up some onion, bacon and sundried tomatoes in olive oil to coat some pasta for dinner, and preparing to settle down in front of Flashdance for a while before bed. I've never seen Flashdance before, but the whole welder by day, stripper by night thing makes it sound like enjoyably cheesy eighties fun.
I was business-like and polite with the new clerk today, which I hope will discourage her from a)trying to lending me vampire romance books, b)telling me about her bodily ills, and c)bitching to me about other people at work. In all seriousness, I have slowly discovered that it's never good to encourage or allow people to bitch about your workmates to you. It's my new policy. I am sick of spending my weeks being embroiled in petty disagreements. No more, I say. I've been applying this policy for the past week or so, and it's working pretty well so far. I'm enjoying the atmosphere of work much more when I don't know what people are thinking about each other.
I was actually in a terribly horrible mood for most of today, for no discernable reason whatsoever. Period isn't due, nothing's actually wrong in my life at the moment. I think it's because I've been a bit forgetful with my iron tablets, and the minute my iron levels go down, my moods start swinging away for all they're worth.
A friend is having a really really hard time of it lately, with all aspects of her life. It makes me enormously angry. Having someone say to you, "We're not given anything more than we can handle, right?", in a small and sad tone, is horrible, especially when I don't really believe that's true. If we could all handle what we're given, people would never kill themselves. But of course, I reassured her. Because I, for one, will make sure that life doesn't give her too much to handle, as much as one can do so.
She's had some drugs prescribed, and I really really hope this improves things for her. She's at breaking point at the moment, and I just will not allow her to break. She has too much ahead of her for that.
Enough of that - I'm off for pasta and Flashdance. Hope you all have an equally enjoyable and cheesy evening.
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