bad night, better morning...

The thing with my unhappy-about-to-go-into-detox-friend went completley bust. I called her, she asked me to come to her place instead...a half-hour walk. Whn I got there... nobody answered the door. I buzzed. I knoked. I went up the rickty bak stairs, knocking, yelling my friend's name an feeling like an idiot. More bell ringing. Finally, after what felt like a half-hour of this monkey business, I gave up & headed home. I stopped off at the Wedge for some dinner an got accostd by a drunk lady begging for food. I gave up my rice crakers & managed to make it home with the rest of my grocries intact.

I got hom, & of cours the phon rings. "where ar you?"
"I'm home...I tried knockking & ringing and whatnot, weren't you home at all? I even tried yelling your name at the open winows."
"Oh...I thought you were coming later"
"Nooooo....I said I' be there by six, remember?
"Well, an you come over now?"
"What?"
"I could really use a friend right now..."
"Hey now, I alreay walked an hour to get to you an back. If the buses were running , sure fine, but I'm beat. An it's gonna rain, you know?"
"yeah, but I on't want to be alone..."
"I'm really sorry!! I an't!"

An so it went for a while. An I hung up in a bad mood...half annoyance, half guilt, half wanting to be a bttr friend...but I was trying hard to *be* a good friend, dammit. I can't help if I have to o *all* th work.

Somtimes I'm just tired of being needed.

Mmmm, typing is fun when you're not cut and pasting...

Sorry my last post sounded so petulant...and for the spelling.(Bad keyboard+bad experience=Mausi-angst=petulant posting. Bad Maus.) I just keep telling myself: two months more of this and I can start shopping around for something better computer-wise.

Meanwhile it's hard not to buy a whole bunch of new-apartment stuff when I should (and will) just wait until after I move. My inner pack-rat may gnaw, but it'll be so much easier to move, really.

Off to workies for me....

*snicker*

Shhhh...

Okay... is anybody looking? No? Good. I couldn't just sit on this; I had to share. It's incredibly funny. You can't make stuff up like this if you tried...

My boss, for reasons known only to him, has put in one-way glass for the main window of his new (temporary) office, overlooking the inner Dock at work. One way glass. So people couldn't look into his office, or see him looking out at you. You're with me so far, right?
Okay...Now, everyone that's ever driven a car with heavily tinted windows or watched the Discovery channel knows that when you have a light on behind one-way glass (such as an office lit suitably for working) the one-way glass is no longer one-way...You'd think my boss would know that too, right?

Nope. He had it installed anyway...the contractor who did it was apparently doing his best not to laugh as he put the stuff up. And my boss didn't realize that people would be able to see him just fine until the glass had been installed...

So I walked into the inner dock today to see a bright, shiny mirror surface with a huge photograph-style light right in front of the window of my boss's office, to make that window nice and opaque like it's supposed to be. I was soooo tempted to whip out a tube of lipstick and do my makeup in that window, waving cheerfully at the Bossman. Apparently he's having an electrician come out to set up a permanent light for outside that window.
Which will white out the screen for the security camera set up right in front of it, and will make the Inner dock,already one of the hottest places to be at my work that much hotter. Juuuust in time for summer. I picture my boss crouching in the dark behind the glass, stripped down to shorts and that damn baseball cap he wears, so he can spy on the denizens of the Dock in comfort.

It's incredible...my postage meter's from 1992 and needs to be replaced, and this yoyo puts in one way glass and a contracted light just for it?!?!? And people are ...okay with this? Okay, lots of people are quietly giggling...the building ops staff are having mini-hernias, stopping each other in the halls with a quick giggle of, "Is he really that stupid??!" Yes, folks, apparently he is. He's pulled a LOT of stupid stuff in his time, but this just takes the cake. I am utterly and completely baffled...and I've been laughing my ass off all afternoon.