I have a new job.

It entails a bunch of duties that I'm not proficient at yet.

(Teach always said, "Don't end your sentences with a preposition"

That's why I put the word 'yet' at the end of the 2nd sentence.)

I'm a perfectionist

And I fear failure

And I fear looking silly to others.

(I also fear dinosaurs, but that's not really pertinent here)

So to have a job that I don't yet perform in an Earth-shaking manner

Produces much anxiety in me

And fear

And sleepless nights.

Which

In a roundabout way

Is why I'm posting to my favorite blog

(mine)

This fine Sunday morning.

This a.m. was yet another morn when I awoke to the sweet sweet sound

Of a million and one fearful thoughts rushing thru my head about the new job.

"Geez, what if I can't get the new computer software to work?"

"What about those reports that were due last week, but are still sitting on my desk?"

"What about all those meetings I'm supposed to have this week with people

Who think I know all about my job?

Will they find out that I'm a fake

And that I really don't know what I'm doing?"

And one of the worst:

"What if I wake up late, show up to work and realize that I forgot to put on my pants, everyone is pointing and laughing, I fall out of an airplane without a parachute, and then get chased by dinosaurs?"

(That last one is kind of a conglomeration (amalgamation?) of all my worst nightmares

Especially the dinosaurs.)

That's how the day started

At 5 a.m

On a Sunday.

Now that you have the scenario, let's get to what I really want to talk about this a.m...

With first cup of coffee firmly in hand

My hair still in the shape of the pillow I slept on

And the wonderful aroma of my unwashed body oozing thru the air about me

I thought I'd read up on my favorite blogs

Mine being the first one I checked, of course.

And, as usual, there were a plethora of new comments on my blog

Zero, to be exact.

ed note - does the word 'plethora' match the verb in the sentence above?

I'm not gonna tell ya.

Check out dictionary.com and learn somethin'.

So I moved on to my other two favorites

(see sidebar if you really MUST leave my blog)

And what did I see on someone else's blog?

You know the old adage

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?

Well, someone used a term in their blog

That I coined

In reference to a certain political organization.

ed note - mine is not a political blog

So I won't be telling you what the term was.

Too bad

Cuz you'd have giggled like a little schoolgirl.

Anyhoo, it put a big smile on my face this morning!

In the interest of maintaining anonymity

No names

Just first initials

D.

So I'd like to send a big shout out to

My blog buddy

Who has flattered me by imitation

And who has helped re-color my morning blues

To something of a more cheery hue

(ably assisted, of course, by my drug of choice - caffeine)

By using the word 'Repube' in her latest post.

Oops.

Damn!

Oh well, you may now giggle like a little schoolgirl.

...dinosaurs ...*yuck*






If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?