I hate you Clay Aiken

I hate Clay Aiken.* The Clay Aiken that's trying to take my job, not the real Clay Aiken, although I don't really like him either. In my head I know that what's happening isn't Clay Aiken's fault; he's just a guy looking for what he thinks will be a better job. In my heart it's all his fault. Per his LinkedIn profile** he already has a really good job with a great company. He will never have health insurance as good as what he has right now. (If he gets the job at BCFG he will come to mourn his health insurance loss--I didn't understand how good I had it until a few years after I left the Big P.) I would like to take Clay Aiken by the shoulders and shake him until his teeth rattle. I would tell him "Stay where you are. You're ruining someone's life."

One of the reasons that I hate Clay Aiken so much is that it's easier to hate him than the other people at BCFG. Although right now they are treating me like shit, I feel like in their souls, which are currently extremely misguided, they are good people. I am hoping and counting on their good people-ness to keep me in my job.

It's the season of Advent; the coming of the Christ Child, and this year I have been thinking a lot about the Wise Men and their journey following the star for hundreds or thousands of miles. Although I don't think that I'm worthy of divine intervention, I've been hoping that a star will stop over my head in my Triangle and point the people to me.

* My sister, L2, and I were definitely Ruben Studdard fans. In fact, anytime that Ruban Studdard song "Don't you remember you told me you loved me ba-a-a-by...baby...baby..baby" came on the radio we would call each other and sing in loudly into each other's voice mail. This was extra fun to us because L2 worked for a giant financial organization and all of her ingoing and outgoing calls were recorded. We were so used to it that we didn't really think about it, but I always wondered if anyone ever listened to our singing. (For those of you who don't know me personally, both of my sisters have L first names, so I will be calling them L1 and L2.) Lots of people must share my feelings about Clay, as my picture is from the "I hate Clay Aiken" Facebook Group.

**LinkedIn is awesome for spying on people trying to steal your job.