The Blog With No Name

My boss occasionally indicates that she is amused at the idea that I’m stressing out about something, usually a machine that is not doing what I think it should be doing at that exact minute, or something that has to be done fastfastfast (usually because she hasn’t mentioned it until the last minute), like today – there was a funeral at my work church which I decided to attend, and we needed more bulletins. So the funeral director was standing there taking them as they came out of the printer. I was annoyed because I’m not used to printing them that way; I usually run them off on this really neat-o high speed offset printer thingie we have. The laser printer is sllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww by comparison. So there is my boss out in the hallway saying, “Mary looks like she’s on the edge, I’ll just stay out of her way, etc etc.” What the fuck is it to her? Is it amusing? Does she get points? She seems so smug when this happens. I wasn’t even stressed until I heard her gloating, and then I just got PISSED OFF. It reminds me of the USSR, that very Soviet attitude – “I’m unhappy so you have no right to be happy, no matter how much harder you are willing to work than I am – we’ll all be equally miserable.” My boss is disorganized and thrives on chaos, so she feels she must bring it to everyone else’s work life? FUCK THAT. *This* is what will drive me to hunt for a new job.

A ladder just fell on my face. My glasses are bent, and I imagine that tomorrow morning I will have a truly spectacular bruise on my left temple. Not to mention a really fun headache. I will post a photograph.

(Charles was trying to climb up on the roof. The ladder wasn’t quite tall enough to reach, but it was tall enough to be unmanageable. I’m sure we looked like a Keystone Kops routine in action trying to get the stupid thing down on to the ground.)

So Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant. She plans to marry the father, well that’s such a comfort. And here we have this, from the AP:

“Prominent religious conservatives, many of whom have been lukewarm toward McCain’s candidacy, predicted that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would not diminish conservative Christian enthusiasm over the vice presidential hopeful.”

Why do I imagine that were this happening to Joseph Biden, we would never hear the end of it?