Let the world be warned that I am EXTRAORDINARILY CRABBY today. Not the grim, low-level, tired "you'd best not test my limits right now buster" thing that has beetled my brow since Dad was admitted to the hospital, but a good old-fashioned energetic irrational desire to smash everything that transgresses my current, very limited, laws of acceptable behavior.
Of particular concern at the moment are noises. My ears are, apparently, on their very last nerve, which is currently being assaulted by:
-A Typhoid Mary in the meeting area directly behind me, who chose to drag her corpselike self to a conference despite a repetitive hacking cough with a singularly irritating "Guh-huh. Guh-HUH. Guh-hack. Hack hack HACK" leadin.
-Compulsive pen-clicking (excluding, of course, my own).
-The melodramatic, smacky chewing of my nearest neighbor. Of particular interest is the self-righteous rage I have managed to develop on behalf of other people in other places, who receive phone calls from said neighbor while the irritating chewing is taking place.
-My boss's voice, in conjunction with her fondness for the office P.A. system.
-Telephone callers who do not exhibit exquisite manners.
On an unrelated note, last night I had an extremely vivid and wildly inaccurate dream about setting wholesale prices for a new product that I am, in real life, working on making. I spent the entire day until about five minutes ago grouchily convinced that it would be completely not worth it to make the product after all, until I realized that in my dream I had been paying myself $75 per hour for sewing and gluing. So apparently my self-esteem is healthy, even if my social graces are lacking.
Posted by hilatron at March 25, 2004 12:49 PM | TrackBackAll I can say right now is that I feel blessed to not have an office PA system. But I hear you girlfriend.
Posted by: EV at March 25, 2004 01:17 PMYour esteem may be healthy, but the rest of you needs a vacation.
When I next encounter you, I will very, very softly. But I will also carry a big, big stick.
Posted by: Doombot at March 25, 2004 06:16 PMOh, I hear you about repetitive noises. They can reduce me to a quivering mess in no time.
Posted by: Jess at March 26, 2004 12:13 PM