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Jul. 24th, 2009 08:10 pmToday, I woke up at 5:30 a.m. apparently spontaneously (I've been doing this for at least a week now).
Went to work. I was sitting alone in the teachers' room when coworker D. came in. I said, "Hi, D," and turned back to my solitaire game. He said, "You know, I really need some quiet right now!" Two seconds later, another coworker came in and he started loudly chatting with her about her fear of birds.
While I was eating lunch, another coworker (M.) with a history of making bigoted and idiotic statements started quoting Howard Stern talking about "hos" and n....s. He laughed, and other people started trying to top his story, without the bad language. At the end of lunch, M. was saying that he would never call a woman a jerk - it just didn't fit. He'd call her a bitch instead. "That's an incredibly sexist word," I said. The room erupted into a chorus of "No, it's not," and the guys were telling me that it's used to men, too, and doesn't in any way suggest weakness or femininity when it is. Then a woman told me that I was wrong and clearly exaggerating.
I tutored my uncongenial student, came home, and had a swim.
The cats defecated in the guest bathtub. I cleaned it up. Now I have to clean the tub.
I hate feeling like I'm at the end of my rope.
Went to work. I was sitting alone in the teachers' room when coworker D. came in. I said, "Hi, D," and turned back to my solitaire game. He said, "You know, I really need some quiet right now!" Two seconds later, another coworker came in and he started loudly chatting with her about her fear of birds.
While I was eating lunch, another coworker (M.) with a history of making bigoted and idiotic statements started quoting Howard Stern talking about "hos" and n....s. He laughed, and other people started trying to top his story, without the bad language. At the end of lunch, M. was saying that he would never call a woman a jerk - it just didn't fit. He'd call her a bitch instead. "That's an incredibly sexist word," I said. The room erupted into a chorus of "No, it's not," and the guys were telling me that it's used to men, too, and doesn't in any way suggest weakness or femininity when it is. Then a woman told me that I was wrong and clearly exaggerating.
I tutored my uncongenial student, came home, and had a swim.
The cats defecated in the guest bathtub. I cleaned it up. Now I have to clean the tub.
I hate feeling like I'm at the end of my rope.
