run ragged

it's my second day of hard-core training for my new position, and i'm exhausted. i keep finding myself being really irritable with people in my office, snapping at them for no reason except that today i'm expected to be super-secretary, answering phones, doing paperwork, working with databases, all the while finishing up my certifications and spending 3 hours down in the clinic. what happened to the gym, you ask? good question. one way or another i'm going. as i told t yesterday, i don't eat lunch at my desk so that i can just work all day with no break. i'm fairly confident that i won't get fired. maybe.

to make matters worse, the lady who sits behind me in the office will not...how do i put this delicately...shut her yap. i understand that she's got a lot to complain about--people not showing up for appointments, being the only person who really recruits people--but i want to turn around and lay down some ground rules:

1. if you have to complain, complain just once about something. don't say the same thing over and over, bitching and moaning about the same thing. be creative.
2. if there's nothing i can do about it, don't try to engage me in conversation. i'm busy, either doing real work or blogging. most likely blogging.
3. we all know how hard you work, so don't remind us three hundred times.

that's really all. if she could follow these simple instructions, everyone in the offices' lives would be happier.

let me finish this angry, hateful blog by saying: i really do like this woman, and she really has been hugely nice to me. i'm just annoyed. five years ago i would've blown up. today i'll take some deep breaths and try to see things her way. inhale; good, now exhale...