Another Friday and A Happier Perspective

Friday, and a well deserved day off from the other staff.

Friday’s are a good day for catching up on blogging, cooking a good meal, avoiding everyone, and generally soothing one’s emotional and professional wounds from the week gone by.

I’m going to have to rename “Paul” PTI, for Physical Training Instructor because I’ve learned that’s what he was. He’s also a bloody idiot, though thankfully so far out there as to be comical. Last night I was on an expedition into the City centre with LM, when we bumped into PTI and Shelley.

This was in an upmarket area, and PTI told us that he’d just bought a suit, though the jacket was 56 (what kind of size is that?) and he indicated with his hands at shoulder height like the man telling everyone about the enormous fish he’d caught; and the trousers are 40, and he brought his hands in dramatically to waist height close together like a tart telling her friends about the same man’s little dick.

It was good to get out. LM’s become a friend now, which means I get more gen for this blog, that I learn a bit about middle management in case I ever want or need to do it, and also that we both have someone with an IQ in treble figures to confide in or let off steam with.

He told me that the gun turret of TOHH has turned from him on to me. I didn’t say anything, but think that this is a poor metaphor because it makes him, and then in turn me, look like victims who must cower in bunkers. Fuck that.

One starts out in these situation wanting to be a nice guy and willing to be pals with everyone. But five weeks have gone by now, and it’s clear that TOHH is a thoroughly nasty piece of destructive work, who will never respond to good manners or intelligent discussion. Yesterday, for example, after I’d snarled at her she was nice as ninepence, approaching me to arrange mutual use of the text books.

And so I’ve worked out a new survival technique. Far from seeing TOHH, PTI and the inhabitants of Fraggle Rock as sharks to be dreaded and avoided, see them as characters with immense dramatic and comic potential. Sit back and watch the show. Even better, give them an occassional prod – this is real life and it’s interactive, after all.