Amusing stories in the midst of a crisis

When I was in grad school one of my favorite profs used to tell us that the Chinese symbol for crisis meant both hope and I think despair. Over the course of the past week I'd probably agree with that. For those of you who do not know, last Tuesday I lost my job secondary to "budgetary constraints." What does this mean? This means last Tuesday morning I was running the weekly team meeting my boss called me down at 11:45 to the conference room. I went down and was informed that they are letting me go. I was proud of me I did not cry in front of my now ex-boss. I did cry in front of everyone else as I was saying goodbye to all my colleagues. As I was saying goodbye it occurred to me that uh oh PT/OT would now have to deal with my boss and the other social worker who thinks that anyone who is not a SW aka exactly like her is below her. (This includes me, I do not think of myself as a therapist and I do not want to be.) I started giggling at this point. My emotions seem to run between hope/despair.
The next amusing story is I was sending my resume to a facility but the part that you needed to fill out aka first/last name the first couple of letters were cut off. I sent the site to my brilliant computer geek friend. Who IMs me and informs me that all of his coworkers are currently giggling at the site b/c it was laid out so badly. He suggested that I use a different web browser. When I did it was still having some issues. My friend amused me greatly when he sent the facility's web operator person the correction to the site so it can now be viewed under any browser.
Lastly, I was in the supermarket yesterday and saw a good friend who I do not get to see very often. I turned to him and informed him that I have news. He immediately looked at my barren ring finger on my left hand. As I'm dying of laughter I said no not that kind of news. I lost my job. He's like I'm assuming if you were engaged you would have told me. I said probably true.

Did I go back to high school?

So considering I had a nice long weekend this weekend I find it amusing that the last couple of days have been so weird. 1. I find it interesting that a Jewish facility is making me possibly work on a Saturday. 2. I seem to have transported myself back into high school. I managed to make somebody angry at me who chose not to tell me they were angry at me so they ended up ignoring me. I did not think anything of it at first they were busy but then it occurred to me I haven't spoken to them in ages. 3. Gossip is always interesting. People talking about each other in very interesting ways making others upset, angry, hurt etc. 4. To quote my friend who just arrived "Life is high school... It will always be high school."

Let's talk heartbreak.

So another pet peeve is people who decide to ignore you b/c they are afraid of breaking your heart. A guy I was interested in very briefly decided to put me out of my misery and chose to ignore me. Suddenly I was persona non grata. I saw him briefly Friday night. It was a rather interesting conversation. I explained to him that he's not going to break my heart. It was broken already and its finally healed. But he's not going to be breaking it again b/c any feelings I had for him are over. This took a while to actually enter into his head. But I think he finally got it. I found it kind of amusing. My heart does not break that easily. Friends that I'm close to hurting me or ignoring me yeah they are going to hurt it. But a guy I'm barely interested in won't do it.

Women are from Venus I'm not sure where men are from...

So there was a book several years ago Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. This past week it was proven that men are from much further away than Mars. One of my friends at work is a liaison so he travels from facility to facility. As usual I was having a crazy day he came over to work and asked to be let into the staff bathroom during the course of his visit. I let him in and when he came out he was talking on his cell phone. My immediate reaction was EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. He's like what's the big deal as long as they do not know you were using the bathroom while they were talking to you. Again my reaction was EWWWWWWW. I thought about it some more I had a male friend who used to go to the bathroom while talking to me on the phone. He wasn't quite as subtle. I'd be yelling at him the whole time. He's like both you and his girlfriend (at the time) seem to dislike when I do that. The work male asked me what do you do when you are in the bathroom and the phone rings? My response was that is what voicemail is for. If I have to go to the bathroom and I happen to be in the middle of an intense call I put the phone down say I'll be right back go to the bathroom and then come back. I'm not sure why that is a difficult concept.