Well, I came to the realization today that I am an impatient bitch. The evidence:
1) I am teaching someone how to design websites due to the fact that I recently sold my business. This person has an HTML background, but is not picking up on the WYSIWYG program that I use at a pace I consider satisfactory and asks me questions and says stupid crap to me all damned day. It probably took me about a month to figure out the program several years ago when I purchased it, as I had no background and learned simply from trial and error and reading, which this person clearly has no desire to do. If I had a question back then, I had to ask the empty office air for a response. But, you see, I had respect for the fact that the air was busy doing it's own thing and had more important things to do, like helping me breathe and exist, so I didn't bother it and proceeded to figure things out on my own. Yes, you are correct, sir...I am an impatient bitch.
2) My boss has allowed one of my co-workers to bring her two extremely ill-behaved daughters to work for the last two days. I think we still have one day to go. They run up and down the main hallway to our office and expel blood-curdling screams at regular intervals while trying to swordfight each other with wooden rulers. The older one (who is six) also plays "cheerleader" and says and does very weird things like tape a long piece of ribbon to her ass with an empty water bottle tied at the other end and says, "Look at my tail!" To which I responded, "That's inconvenient..." which cracked up my other co-worker (not the mom) for some reason, most likely in recognition that I am an impatient bitch.
Perhaps my recitation of events doesn't seem so bad, but believe me, my mindset in the midst of them is one of thorough annoyance and disdain. When did this transformation occur? I don't quite know.
I guess love me or leave my impatient bitch ass as is. ~M1L
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I find myself losing patience more and more easily these days. I'm teaching a class, and release online notes and other study materials for the students to use as we proceed. I posted a study guide a week before the exam they took yesterday. One of my students approached me on Monday and asked when I thought I'd have the study guide up. I told her she should probably check to see if it's up before asking me about it since it had been up for three or four days at that point. Annoying.
ReplyDeleteThank you, comrade...it IS annoying, isn't it? Funny you say that about posting the online study guide...I have spent hours creating sites and putting up information for condos/planned communities and people still regularly call me for documentation that is readily available to them online. I'll say "A PDF copy is available on the website" only to hear, "Website? I didn't even know we had one." We're talking at least two years and several written notices later. I think as we get older it's increasingly disheartening to think our precious time, energy, and effort is wasted on anything, you know? Also, I'm so much more easily distracted that if I actually achieve a finished product I want at least an iota of recognition for it, dammit! :) I feel I've wasted enough time as it is.
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