Hello, city. You've found an enemy in me.
Mar. 29th, 2004 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpOne of the things that makes me good at my job is that I tend not to overreact. I have a level head and can handle crises effectively, because I stay fairly emotion-free. Today, for instance, I found out that the husband in one of my DV cases (because I have a glut of them) has been stalking the wife and hiding in her bushes. Creeptacular. So I called her and talked to her, and made a bunch of other phone calls on her behalf - no problem. It's this sort of easygoing attitude that (I think) helps me in social work.
For some reason, though, I seem to be completely incapable of bringing this laissez faire attitude home with me, and instead, every little thing that happens becomes very large and dramatic in my head. Perhaps it is because I spend all of my calm points during the day. Perhaps I really am a nutjob, I just hide it well. Perhaps perhaps perhaps. I have no idea. But it's really starting to irritate me.
I mean, sure, we have a bunch of stressful things going on, and sure, we are working ourselves up over moving and money and our jobs and everything, but there's really no reason for me to be teetering so close to the edge. I felt like crying today in my car, listening to Barenaked Ladies on the radio. Barenaked Ladies! Not really cry-worthy, I mean, come on.
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Apparently, several people that I work with are conspiring to keep me in Columbus. One of them suggested ruining my credit so I couldn't get a new apartment. Another suggested slashing my tires. The other decided to duct tape me to a tree. Aaah, feel the love.
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Jennifer is the most beautiful, entrancing, sexy woman in the history of the world. Pass it on.
For some reason, though, I seem to be completely incapable of bringing this laissez faire attitude home with me, and instead, every little thing that happens becomes very large and dramatic in my head. Perhaps it is because I spend all of my calm points during the day. Perhaps I really am a nutjob, I just hide it well. Perhaps perhaps perhaps. I have no idea. But it's really starting to irritate me.
I mean, sure, we have a bunch of stressful things going on, and sure, we are working ourselves up over moving and money and our jobs and everything, but there's really no reason for me to be teetering so close to the edge. I felt like crying today in my car, listening to Barenaked Ladies on the radio. Barenaked Ladies! Not really cry-worthy, I mean, come on.
~//~
Apparently, several people that I work with are conspiring to keep me in Columbus. One of them suggested ruining my credit so I couldn't get a new apartment. Another suggested slashing my tires. The other decided to duct tape me to a tree. Aaah, feel the love.
~//~
Jennifer is the most beautiful, entrancing, sexy woman in the history of the world. Pass it on.
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Date: 2004-03-29 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-29 09:24 pm (UTC)Err, I mean, Jen. JEN!!
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Date: 2004-03-29 09:40 pm (UTC)He needs to come back from Tampa. NOW.
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Date: 2004-03-29 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-03-29 09:46 pm (UTC)I don't own a baseball bat, but I'd buy one for the occasion. And a new tire iron.
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Date: 2004-03-30 02:46 am (UTC)I'm so sorry.
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Date: 2004-03-30 06:01 pm (UTC)This was not long before the police broke up a big fraud ring down there. The perps had someone inside the Ohio BMV, so I'm guessing my case was related.
They bought $6K of jewelry from Helzberg, a computer, and a bunch of other stuff. I don't know the final tally, but it must have been more than $15K.
I filed the appropriate paperwork, filled out a police report, affadavits, etc. There was still stuff cropping up on my credit report when we bought our house and again when we refinanced, despite multiple letters, phone calls and other assorted rigamarole.
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Date: 2004-03-30 11:24 pm (UTC)It's one of my worst nightmares. Yuck.
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Date: 2004-03-30 02:40 am (UTC)2. "I have a level head and can handle crises effectively, because I stay fairly emotion-free." Same here usually, although I have had maybe two or three times where I really took stuff home.
3. hmm...now that I have stolen your credit cards, I wonder what I should do with them. Oh, I know! You've always wanted to buy a Hummer, haven't you...
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Hummers make the baby Jesus cry.
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Date: 2004-03-30 06:36 am (UTC)bwahahhahahaha.
you could remedy it by putting this on the dashboard ;) WARNING: DO NOT CLICK LINK AT WORK- unless alone of course ;)
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HA HA HA