I know that I say this almost every day, but Mr. X is so much nicer than The Man. Mr. X's degree of niceness is basically unquantifiable. Today I arrived at work to find a lovely email from him thanking me for the work that I did yesterday. To me, I was just doing my job (however the project did turn out well). The Man was so nasty I've basically forgotten how to take a compliment and believe that it's sincere. I didn't talk about how horrible The Man was very often because I didn't want to admit it to myself. It was my job and with the current job market, especially in the financial industry, I didn't think that I had any options. Although it is still the early days, and there are things that are hard about my semi-demotion, getting laid off by The Man may prove to be one of the best things that ever happened to me.
One weird thing about my triangle is that there is no where to eat lunch in the office other than you desk, which I hate doing. I have taken up the very anti-social practice of eating in my car. I want to get out of the office for a while, but I'm not going to "go out" by myself every day. I am an NPR junkie and one of my favorite programs, "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," is on from 12:00-1:00, so I usually listen to some of it in my car. Today's program was a visit with the author of the book "Autobiography of an Execution." I became kind of death penalty obsessed since reading Sister Helen Prejean's* "Dead Man Walking." (I got to hear her speak when I was in college--super cool). Anyway, I now I have that book on my library reading list, so I guess I got something good out of lunch today.
*Sister Helen is one of the people who would be on my mythical list of people to have dinner with, along with Jesus, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther (I think he'd be fun with the Pope), Vaclav Havel, Albert Einstein, Thomas Tallis, W.A. Mozart and Giacamo Puccini. Maybe Charlie Sheen would be a good current addition so he could talk about "winning." If you want to comment, you can tell me who would be on your list--I always like to hear those.
I'm going to double up on your date with Jesus and the Pope, but the rest of my list is not as cool as yours. I think I would have to go with: Gene Kelly, Tori Amos, Idina Menzel, V.C Andrews, Tina Fey, and Kevin Smith.
ReplyDeleteOooh--I am adding Tina Fay to my list. Also Scott Adams (the guy who drew "Dilbert"), since he could sympathize with all my work issues.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to put that book on my list too. I also loved the book Dead Man's Walking (I read it after watching the movie...had a bit of an obsession myself there for a while).
ReplyDeleteI have to think about my dead person I'd like to meet. Let's see...obviously Jesus (and anyone remotely attached to him - disciples, Mary, etc.). After Jesus, I really wish I could meet my mom's mom who died before I was born.
Oh, just realizing that it doesn't have to be a dead person. In that case I would definitely have to add Charlie Sheen to my list. :)