(no subject)

To do (today):

- Sit through a day of my mandatory schooling.
- visit the Old Relative's house to check his mail. (and walk back since there is a bus strike down here.)
- do some serious packing.
- Arrange the cat's move to her new place.
- Move the cat.
- make and send a zillion e-bay packages.
- Watch two episodes of Life on Mars and an episode of House.
- Hunt down the latest Project Runway.
- clean my apartment.

..Right.

Real life reality tv, part whatever

(Mrs. Short Fuse arrives at least 30 minutes late every single day. The Evil Contestant have greeted her this far, but nowadays she is always so enchanted by the teaching going on at the same time that she “forgets” to greet the late arriving Short Fuse.)

The next coffee break:

Mrs. Short Fuse: ( making conversation) I just can’t arrive in time, it’s so hard for me to get up!
Evil Contestant: So, were you always late from your work place, too?
Mrs. Short Fuse: (proudly) No, but I was always the last one to arrive!
Evil Contestant: Uh. Okay.

(commercial break)

*The day’s teacher is a work place psychologist*

*people talk about healthy work environment*
Mrs. Short Fuse: (pours out a personal work place related trauma, thinly wailed as a question to the teacher)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: (pours out another personal work place related trauma, thinly wailed as a question to the teacher)
Teacher: (offers a suggestion for handling the situation)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: No!
Teacher: (Offers another suggestion)
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: No! Get real!
Mrs. Short Fuse: Gets a bit hostile
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: Gets hostile
Teacher: Gets frustrated
Mrs. Short Fuse: STARTS YELLING
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: STARTS YELLING
Evil Contestant: Listen up, people! Would you please stop throwing your personal traumas to the teacher! He can’t solve your issues!
Mrs. Always-on-the-phone: You don’t have to defend him! And you shut up, you have no real work place experience!
Evil Contestant: I’m not defending him, he is totally capable for doing that himself! And woe me and boo hoo with no experience!
Everybody: AAAARGH!
Miss Sensible: Could we please give the teacher a chance to answer to the original question?
*people settle down*

*later*
Miss Sensible: What a work place simulation, huh? (throws a barb to the Evil Contestant for getting involved with the fight)
Evil Contestant: I think this rather as a group forming simulation. You know, first getting-to-know-you, then everyone is having “so much fun”, then fighting, then peace. We just did the fighting.
Miss Sensible: Yeah, there is that.