Grumph...

...I have a female cow-irker who really, really REALLY wants me to go out drinking with her and a few other cow-irkers next week on a night where I can't stay out late. I always feel like total crap if I'm not sleeping and have to work the next day early. She's super-nice, but super-pushy, and it's getting on my nerves this morning, my saying, "Look, the timing's really bad, I've got lots of stuff going on, I like you guys a lot but I don't think I'll be able to go." over and over and over... I'm just trying to do what you do with insistent people--be polite, firm, and just keep repeating yourself until it sticks...

And there's another Jesus pamphlet in the breakroom. Double grumph. If I brought in prosteletizing stuff for my religious views I'd most likley get thrown to the wolves and HR to boot. I'm cool with people's various faiths; I just don't want the Christ staring out at me in the workplace when I'm trying to take a break. Grumph grumph grumph...