Pissing match

So I had the confrontation/pissing match today with that jerk Deb H. at Job #1. She won 1/2 by stating that the summer intern is mine, no matter what, and I'm stuck with her even though this was not what was written into our grant. However, I won 1/2 by stating that all these stupid meetings Deb H. is trying to call in the future are completely superfluous and there's no point in me attending them, and my colleague sitting in on the meeting agreed. I also ticked off Deb H. by letting her know that I couldn't be at the intern's orientation next week b/c I have a dentist appt. (ha). She got pretty upset and started in about how I'm not being a team player and psycho director almost fired me that day a few months ago, blah blah blah. I sat with my poker face on, not really caring. I was pretty amused to hear the frustration in Deb H.'s whiny voice. [I know I'm playing with fire, but seriously, I don't care. If they fire me then I will have that excuse to go play cops and robbers full time. HPD is offering $6K signing bonuses--which'll make up for having to wear those awful blue shirts that show your pit stains! And we all know I'd make an excellent cop and have a hell of a lot more fun.] She then switched to kissing my ass and said that I need to start making the presentations to the Library Friends, our funders, b/c I have so many talents and need to showcase them. She said my website presentation is awesome and no one else can do it. I then told her well, my mouth still has a bad taste in it from those lies and insults that she told about me back in September, and that our former HR person was supposed to get me and Deb H. into a conflict resolution class at the EAP and never did. I pointed out that since she's in fact on my website team, then she should have no problem doing the intern's orientation next week for me (Ha! Score!).

After the meeting I told my colleague, verbatim, that Deb H. is full of shit and she agreed. Our dept. is meeting with our newly hired HR person tomorrow and she suggested I bring up the conflict resolution thing, which I will! If they aren't going to fire me, yet force me to work with that asshole, then we are going to need some therapy! Hey--I'm willing.

Speaking of getting fired, I'm at Job #2 right now and they informed me that the children's lib. was fired. I was like, man what do you have to do to get fired around here? When I was working at Houston P.L. you almost had to kidnap the mayor and hold him hostage just to get a 3-day suspension WITH pay.

I'm feeling a little calmer these days, even without the benefit of Valium. When we went running with Tito J. last night he offered to accompany us to a local Baptist church since S says my Methodist church is too uptight! Last night Mano came over and stayed the night; S was happy to have a wrestling-watching partner since I'm a little burned out on that scene too these days. The only thing I'm really stressed out about is I cannot find a fellow MK lady to do that class for me next week at the Library that I'll have to miss since we'll be in court! Seriously, I've had 5 of them turn me down already! I also can't believe some of my fellow MK sisters are still in it, all these years later and I am able to track them down easily by searching for their website. Heavy.