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the level that is


There is this woman. She's angry with us because she doesn't have enough hours. She doesn't turn up to her shifts. How can you respond to someone who claims their life is ruined because the sky is green and no matter how many times you try to tell her, "The sky is fucking blue," she still just doesn't get it?

She says we should be caring, because unlike us, she doesn't have a well off parent to fall back on.

But we don't need well off parents to fall back on, because we actually show up to our shifts.

She says she needs a couple of days to cool off.

But if we needed a couple of days to cool off every time we got angry, we would hardly ever be at work.

She blames everyone else for all the problems in her life. I am so fucking sick of that tired old story.

This is the last year.

Next year will be different. Next year we will try to move out of this retarded situation. Next year we will try harder to be regular people.

We have been watching Band of Brothers and revelling in the relevance of life and effort and appreciating things that actually matter. And wishing that those things still mattered to more people today.

There are very few decent people in this world. People who, when you ask them for the first time, "Can you help, I really need you?" They don't roll their eyes and tell you how hard they've worked for everyone else and how tired they are of never putting themselves first, and for the millionth time since you've know them, do only what they want to do.

Instead they say, "Of course." Those people answer questions and look into your eyes and remember to call you and don't think that torture is acceptable if it helps the government get information which might lead to them catching the 'bad guys' who might just turn out to be simple decent people who answer questions and look into your eyes and remember to call you and don't think that ...

11:31 p.m. - 2008-01-10

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