Thursday, slouching towards Friday. It was an ok day, Terry erstwhile co-pilot was in but I wasn’t able to sleep later than I’ve been. My mission this morning was to get flowers for the conference rooms and the reception void, I mean, area. Usual clients making it in today as well as thirty students from the Fashion Institute of Technology or the School of Visual Arts. This was bad timing on someone’s part, not mine. And of course all rooms were booked and if they weren’t, where the hell would we put thirty sullen, trendy students with multiple piercings on their faces?
It was just one of those days. I handled it well I suppose. I spoke with Amiable Alan about the office atmosphere and he agreed that it resembles high school with the cliques and scornful gossip. And here I was in a clique with Amiable Alan gossiping scornfully. He’s already thinking of excuses to not go to the holiday party which we seem to be slipping towards. I plan on going if I’m still there, and if guests are allowed then Bill will be on my arm, having been a hit at the last party in September. I had to deal with thirty teenagers all crowded around my desk in the meantime.
A hushed lecture was going on, hushed due to the fact that a client meeting was going on less than ten feet away. It was chaotic and I was able to leave midway through to go out and get myself some lunch. When I came back both the clients and the students had left. Apparently it went well. All parties satisfied and if they met each other as far as I could tell, there were no fisticuffs. A clash of ages is what I was getting at, in case you were wondering. The man versus easily co-opted antidisestablishmentarianisms. Isn’t that a great word?
Right now I am watching Ugly Betty on the telly. I started watching it last week and it’s such a sweet and funny show. Betty is sweet and everyone else around her is funny is almost every sense of the word. She’s just so adorable and yes the cliché is true, beauty is only skin deep. It reminds me of a show a few years ago called Popular. It was on following Gilmore Girls when that show first started on Friday nights. Sometimes, Popular was funnier than Gilmore Girls. Popular had a dark humor about it, especially following the sweet wit of the Gilmores.
The NJ State Supreme Court ruled that Same Sex couples are entitled to the same rights as opposite sex couples. The court ordered the State legislature to enact laws for civil unions, which should afford the same rights as married couples. But they can’t call it marriage because that just scares so many people. So easily frightened of sharing what they take for granted. Afraid that their sacred institutions aren’t as strong as they had thought all along. I have no patience for them at all.