ohmmmmmmmmmm
It’s 11:49pm and I have to be up at 4:15 in order to make it on that goddamn flight to Denver tomorrow.
Cranky cranky cranky.
I’ve been home from work for an hour now - I left at 6:30am this morning.
Someone was talking to me about the economy while I was typing out my 2nd court report of the day while fielding phone call after phone call after phone call. I told her to come back later, but she didn’t get it and after a few minutes I felt like I was on one of those twirly tea cup things at a county fair only the goddamn thing was spinning into the stratosphere with me puking up all over myself while an unintelligible voice droned in the background.
‘Yep’, I told her - ‘it’s horrible. What can I say? Fucking ridiculous’, as I was editing the same sentence in my court report for the 15th time. She wasn’t phased by my complete lack of eye contact and responsiveness to her diatribe. She sat in an empty chair and went on to talk about the war, famine, nuclear weapons, empty food banks, her roof leak, her daughter’s penchant for yellow tights with EVERYTHING, her husband’s allergies to shellfish/peanuts/citrus/cats/strawberries/soy sauce, her tofu recipes, her bout with breast cancer, her incontinent dog, her beloved Olive Garden….
I’ve decided I’m going to get up at 2am and drive over to her house to kill her,
her allergy ridden husband
and her fucking yellow legging wearing daughter.
I’ll spare the goddamn incontinent dog.
tsk, tsk! Why don’t you just go over there, knock on her door, and tell her about your allergies, your blind date, your dog, your favorite restaurant, etc? You won’t get in as much trouble as you would if you did away with her.
I hope you can take a smidgeon of comfort in knowing that after today, you’ve just got one more to go….can’t call in sick from Denver, eh? hang in there, Annie…there must be worse ways to earn a living, and here I am, proof that social work is not only survive-able, but the only real side-effects of such a career is an abiding dislike of humanity in general. Nuffin’ wrong wid dat, eh?