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So yeah! Bloggery. I've been really lazy about it for the past... long time. There's many a thing afoot, as always. Novelty abounds.

Here's an example! Life being one long learning experience as it is, I've learned recently that dating someone you work with can be, oh, quite a complicated experience. Another thing I've learned is that, no matter how great a worker you are, or how polite & cheery you are to your coworkers, the pettiness in people works like Boyle's Law, expanding to fill whatever space it has available. I was called into the office monday and told that, despite our sincerest efforts to be subtle, there have been 5 complaints about the way Jenny & I conduct ourselves at work. What?! We hardly talk. Can any examples be given? Well, no. What are we supposed to do? To quote directly: "ignore each other." Yes, because god forbid somebody should feel awkward seeing us talking, because you know what, if you don't draw a line here, why, in five minutes we could be fucking right on the pricing table. In all seriousness, I'm trying to take this with a grain of salt. Really, since that talk I've spent every moment second-guessing my every move, feeling really awkward around Jenny, and in general feeling totally devalued as a worker (it'd be another thing if I didn't bust my ass every day). I hope it's worth it to those that complained, that their supposed comfort has been bought by my stifling and constant anxiety. Ah, office politics. I'm sure it would also be a different issue if we had the same level of power in our jobs. But we don't, and if there's one thing people's irrational minds latch onto it's power structures, and no doubt this is all just territorial instinct gone horribly awry.

So that's one thing that's new. Heh - there's more stuff, but I think I'm going to just keep this in a post by itself. Feels better that way. All is love, my friends.