Jan. 22, 2001 - 8:37 pm
There was a man driving an SUV down the middle of the road with a cell phone pressed to his ear . . . completely oblivious to the rest of humanity. I wonder how people like that rationalize their behavior? Do they not know that they are raging cliches?
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So, I'm in a little puddle of discontent right now. My life is good right now, don't get me wrong. But my job, Good Lord! my job, sucks! It is relatively painless, but extremely pointless. Everything that I do, could be done by other employees if they weren't so lazy. Instead of answering their own damn phones and sending out their own damn form letters, they pay me $12/hour to do it for them. Now, that's a lot of dough for a job that basically requires 10% of my brain cells, but sheesh! Wasn't I supposed to be saving the world right about now? That's what my small liberal arts college viewbook would have you believe.
So much for the dreams of bored admissions officers. I am working for the man. Now, it's not The Man. The people are way nicer than they really need to be and they do seem to appreciate me dammit!, but stillllll (whine whine). I wanna leave the office and feel like one person's life was just a tad (even a very small tad) better because of me.
Then I wouldn't mind the 6 o'clock alarm quite so much.
