April 10, 2000 - Monday
We are doing our best to test out a new format for journal entries. Not so sprawling.
Sheesh, Kathy comes back, and now I'm not talking to Phyllis for a while. She thinks it's because of the stupid~ass fake bomb fiasco with Jan & George....I just don't feel like sitting with her for an hour telling her every story of how she was inconsiderate or impolite from one side and calling me her best friend on the other.
It's just too confusing. Maybe when her life is a little more average than it is right now it won't matter and we can talk again, but with her "high and mighty" pagan stance she's got going right now..I mean this girl is filled with righteous indignation! It's such a trip.
But it is also completely beside the point. She is a strong, intelligent woman that I'm sure will come to her senses someday. I hope.
Joseph was met with frowns and disparaging glances from Kathy and Becky yesterday. They both noticed that he had changed. He gave reasons for it (the apt not done, printer doesn't work, blah blah blah) but he has been depressed so long, it really seems like the reasons are just secondary to some "main" problem. But I don't know, because he doesn't tell me.
After I talked to him he came back over to the apartment and we played cards and ate popcorn while Kat cleaned up my living room a little bit.
I felt bad ~ I took my house key with me today to work. Kathy gets offa work at 5:30pm, I won't be home with the key for the locked door until 6:00~6:15 tonight. What a way to spend your first evening!!
Last night Kathy was so afraid of the new life that she is going to be living. It was a bit frightening for me, but I managed to keep my "game face" on and didn't let her drive herself nuts over the whole thing. I tried to keep it in perspective for her by saying that it's OK to be poor for the next year or so working at Michael's because she will be working her way toward something, as opposed to being stuck at Michael's with no future imminent but more Michael's....hopefully she will be looking back on this day in three years and laughing.
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