Archive for September, 2009

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

There was a museum, in a mall. They were holding an exhibit about insects, and I decided to explore it, along with a few other people. It did not turn out the way we expected it to be. I remember a huge mound of maggots on the floor behind us, threatening to engulf us. Streams of cockroaches scuttled all across the floor around us. We ran further into the museum to escape. Its path was like a maze. One of the “exhibitors” unleased two giant bees from one of the rooms we ran past. Strangely they did not bother us, although they were frightening. After some harrowing turns following the signs in the museum, we managed to escape to the carpark.

And I woke up.

When I related my nightmare to a friend, he pointed out that it fitted the description of my current office.

“It’s telling you how you feel about work,” he explained, and he recounted to me the numerous things I told him before about the place. And surprisingly (or unsurprisingly), the pieces clicked.

Hmm, maybe it’s time I put my escape plan into action?

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

For quite awhile now I’ve had to deal with a certain someone whose behaviour towards me, and other people, I cannot stand. Well, ok, other people can’t stand it either. On more than one occasion I have called her a total and utter bitch behind her back. But I do try to be fair to people, if someone annoys or infuriates me in a certain way, maybe it’s because I don’t like that certain aspect in people. Or maybe I’m having a bad day and was already irritable. Maybe s/he is actually a really nice person and I’m just being real mean.

The argument I usually phrase to myself (and other people whom I bitch about said person to) goes like this: “You know, she is a nice person, but…” And then today I realized that I could use that line to excuse just about anyone’s behaviour. “Jacob’s a really nice person, you know, except for that time he raped and murdered that poor 8 year old kid, gosh, something must have gotten into him!”

Enough is enough. It’s about time I learn to call a bitch a bitch and stop giving excuses for other people’s behaviour.