Day 298: Random Thought For The Day

Today I was reminded by Romans 2:1 that it’s not for me to judge other people; this made me feel convicted about how I’ve been thinking and speaking of this girl at work. My continued anger towards her is, indeed, a sin that I need to repent of and pray about.

Then I read in Romans 2:17-24 about how those who profess righteousness but treat everyone else like crap will get what’s coming to them in the end, and that made me feel much better about the whole situation. I mean, really, it’s not nearly so hard to keep my cool when she’s making snide, juvenile, and offhandedly blasphemous comments once I realize that someday she’ll have to face the wrath of the Almighty God.

Day 294: Week 42 Status Report

So, in answer to last week’s dilemma…I don’t have one yet. Yup, I’m still in limbo. If there’s one thing I’ve unequivocally learned this week, it’s that the corporate wheels move slower than a slug dipped in molasses living in Antarctica. My manager keeps talking about finding a permanent resolution to the problem in my office, but he hasn’t said outright if that solution includes dismissing said problem or if he’s got some other idea about how to fix things.

In the mean time, she’s making the office extremely uncomfortable. If they don’t do something soon, one of my coworkers might ignore my advice and just haul off and smack her, and if that happens, I might just decide to be blind and deaf that day. People can only be pushed so far.

Day 287: Week 41 Status Report

Before I get into the train wreck that was my week, let me just say Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. You deserve much more than a fabricated holiday; you deserve a salary. And now that that’s out of the way…

There’s really no sugarcoating it: I had a shitty week at work, and it’s probably going to get worse.

I bought a bottle of wine tonight–Barefoot Moscato, my favorite–and am currently drinking a sizable glass of it in anticipation of tomorrow’s work day. Every member of my team has a private meeting with the boss to discuss team issues, and I’m right towards the end of the day so I’ve got plenty of time to obsess about it. It’s likely to be the single most awkward day of my life, if I haven’t already gotten through that this past week. Then tomorrow night I’m planning to drink another glass, perhaps finish off the rest of the bottle, because the day can end in one of only two ways.

Day 281: To Snitch, or Not to Snitch

I need some advice. I’ve never been especially talented at navigating the minefield of corporate politics. I’m not the most well-dressed or professional, the most ambitious or underhanded. Mostly I’m too obvious a liar and not nearly confrontational enough to make it in that kind of corporate setting. I’m not ashamed of that.

However, though I never asked to be any sort of leader, I seem to have ended up as a sort of interim team lead for the eight other people on my team at my work. They look to me first when they have questions or problems because I’ve been in the job longest and can usually come up with the right(ish) answer. Because of this, I guess I’ve developed a sort of maternal territoriality over the team. At least, most of the team. Now I have to decide whether I’m willing to go to war with one of the women on my team for the good of the rest of them.

Let me explain. 

Day 280: Week 40 Status Report

Let me just start this off by saying: I cheated this weekend, and it was fantastic.

Ever since I decided to start this movie fast, I knew that there was one movie I would hate having to miss in the theaters, and that’s The Avengers. I’m a huge fan of comic book hero movies like Spider-man, X-Men, Superman, The Hulk (though those movies have been hit or miss in the past…forever), Iron Man, Captain America, Thor…

Give me a lot of explosions and an attractive, well-cut protagonist with a hero complex, and I’m in seventh heaven.

Consequently, one movie with Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Chris (watch-me-drool) Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, and the ever-amazing Samuel L. Jackson, was too good a prospect to pass up. And then–to add epic to awesome–Joss Whedon (creator of TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Dollhouse, to name a few) directed it.

Day 273: Week 39 Status Report

As I sit and type, my feet are resting in a bucket of hot, soapy water. My hands are dry and cracked from cleaning with bleach and chemicals, nicked by splinters and dyed dark gray from packing with newspaper. My back and legs are sore in ways I didn’t know they could be, and I’m trying not to stay standing for more than ten minutes at a time in case my feet decide to just quit on me.

It’s a fantastic feeling.