And besides, several other people I've spoken to sense caught the same feeling from the person (so it's not just me, but also, if the person were challenged on their attitude, they would likely deny it/not understand the complaint).
This is also someone you don't even say "hello" to without practically having to clear it with their secretary first, so... I think it's just easier to try to let the matter drop. (And interact with the person as little as I can possibly get away with.)
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Also, once again, my fast reflexes saved me. To go to work, I turn from an east-west street onto a north-south one. It is a left turn, but there's a light and usually traffic is light enough that I can get through without having to wait through another cycle.
Okay, so I'm going east, turning north. On the north-south street, on the southbound side, there's a left-turn lane (for people turning east) in addition to the regular lane. Those folks get a turn signal (I don't) but sometimes you have to wait a cycle or so for it.
There's also a gas station on the northeast corner. With entrances and exits on both the north/south and east/west streets. So, even though it's technically illegal, people often pull across traffic into their parking lot and across, to sort of "cut off" the turn and avoid waiting.
I got one of these impatient people this morning. Guy in a red pickup truck Could. Not. Wait. the minute-and-a-half or whatever it would be for him to get the turn signal - so he just pulled out, across the lane I was going into, to pull through the gas station.
He did this just as I was coming through the intersection. I hit the brakes and the horn and, thank goodness, avoided getting hit but, geez, that's REALLY not how I want to depart this life: getting t-boned as I'm on my way to work.
(But given the number of near-misses I've seen/had, I suspect that if I DO die prematurely, it will be in a car wreck on the way to work.)
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I'm really glad it's Friday. This week feels like it's been a month long. I'm sure part of it is just the "shakedown" effect of the first week of classes - where you're trying to counsel last-minute people into classes, and you have people worried about stuff coming in, and you're still trying to get everything together. But I also think the extreme heat makes time feel like it moves more slowly.
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Also on "Caturday," I'm running out to meet a fellow blogger who is also an art teacher, and pass off some of my leftover yarn (and some magazines for collages) to her. So I've been rooting around in the stash. I do have an awful lot of yarn. I even had some full balls that were leftovers from other projects...so I decided to just pass them on, it makes room for the other stuff I have.
I'm getting into that typical late summer doldrum of wanting to start dozens of projects...I want to get back into designing my own socks more again (even if every idea I come up with, it seems someone else came up with before, and then published before me.) And I see some of the sweater patterns and think, "Oh, I should start that" but I'm going to be disciplined and try to work on Honeycomb until it's finished before I start another sweater.
(I think part of it is a longing for cooler weather, and sweaters make me think of cooler weather).
3 comments:
I currently seem to have a mild bout of "Finish-itis". Not complaining! Starteritis will be back soon enough. Vanilla Spice is in my queue, I bought yarn.
For me, it's still fun to do the designing myself even if someone else has already used the same decorative patterns. They may have used a different heel, or not extended the pattern onto the top of the foot, or done the toe decreases not the way I like them... although this presupposes that you LIKE designing in the first place and aren't just doing it because you can't find what you want.
I've also done things like playing with the texture pattern to make it bigger or smaller (right now I have my eye on a leaf pattern that looks wonderful but is too big for socks) or interspersing two pattern stitches in panels around the sock -- alternating Rib A with Rib B all the way around, for instance.
Regarding the Person With Authority: That seems to be universal. There's always at least one person in authority who treats subordinates like children. I often wonder if they do it because they feel inadequate. They know they have the right to authority, they know (or feel) that they worked to get where they are, but deep down they don't feel quite "grown-up" enough for the position and so in order to not feel small themselves they try to make other people feel small.
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