The Randomness of My Mind

Michael Jackson was laid to rest yesterday. His whole death and the hoopla surrounding it has been very easy to mock, as was Michael. However if you watch the clip of his daughter speaking at the memorial it reminds you that however odd Michal Jackson was, he has three children that he is leaving behind and that is the one true tragedy in all of this. But watching his daughter being flanked by the entire family makes me hopeful that the children will end up as well adjusted and functional as the rest of us.

I have an annoying habit of rapidly changing topics. I think Hubman tracked me once and I changed topics three times in the course of a 2 minute conversation. Today will be one of those days for all of you.

New Topic: I am getting settled in my own office. So far it has been great. I am the kind of person that needs a certain amount of alone time to function. And for the past few years I have NOT been getting it. I have a five minute drive between my daughter's day care and my office. Then at work, I sat literally five feet away from my co-worker. Then I would come home and be surrounded by the stalkers children until they went to bed.

Now I can close my door and take naughty photos think in peace.
Its also nice that I am away from my co-worker. She gets worked up about things very easily and I think having someone close by that she can vent to all day was not helping.

New Topic: I also had one of those days where I am glad that people cannot read my mind. One of the women in the office storms into my office on Monday. She declares "If Janey does one more thing to annoy me today, I'm giving my notice." I will grant you that Janey is annoying. My real answer to Beth (complaining employee)"Now Beth, calm down you don't want to make any hasty decisions. I am trying to work with your department about your issues, but you have to just be patient." What I really wanted to say was, "Make my day you stupid cow! Its not like you are very good about your job. Go ahead and quit! I can run an ad tomorrow and get a hundred applicants more qualified than you!" But I did not.

I work in the Public Sector. We are having hard times (like everyone not employed by dollar stores and bars)so we have had some hiring freezes and made cuts by attrition. So we are technically understaffed. Now in the private sector, people quietly grumble amongst themselves at lunch, but stop the discussion the second I walk into the room. In the Public Sector, people come into my office, complain about it and ask me what I am going to do to fix the problem. My actual answer is "Well right now we all have to make do with less. We all have to pull together and just be grateful that we are employed right now." The answer in my head is, "I could fix this really quick if I could fire your lazy, incompetent ass and hire someone qualified and not related to the department head."

It seems that Wednesday Weirdness is now defunct. The original moderator has been hammered by real life and the sub moderators do not have the time to maintain the site. For those of you that have participated in Wednesday Weirdness I wanted to say thank you. If you have questions that you always meant to send to Wednesday Weirdness, please send them to TMI Tuesday instead.

Happy Hump Day Everyone!