Cranky September 26, 2007 ~ 2:16 pm
Posted by Julie in : About a Julz, Academic Office Monkey , trackbackMy boss asked me today why I was so grouchy this week. I told her that I was PMS’ing and four days away from my thirtieth birthday, and did she have any other questions? (Also, last week she was the grouchy one, so hello, pot.)
And then I thought about it. If I wasn’t at work? And forced to deal with difficult students and colleagues on days when my hormones are basically on the spin dry setting? I probably wouldn’t have PMS. Interesting.
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Maybe you’d still have it but you could bury it under chocolate and depressing movies?
Hi Julie ~
Hoping you’re feeling better! I think I may understand your thing about 30…it’s the only birthday that caused me problems of a panic/depression-type, probably because I loved my 20’s! But now I’m only a few months away from the BIG 50! Geesh. Where the hell did the years go?!!!!
Want you to know I’ll be at the Spin-Out after all. Driving in with friend, Jenna, and her husband, Kevin. Plus my oldest, David, will meet me at the Park. Hope to see YOU there, too!
Cheers, Jenny
Hey Twin,
If it’s any consolation to you I’m in such a BIG funk. I seriously want to crawl under a cover and not come out until I feel better! Everything is disgusting me.
Necia
To this entry, methinks, “However! When I am PMSing [or hor-motional, because Aunt Flow no longer Floweth during this long long cycle of mystery] and days away from a dreaded candlefest, I feel better when I am in the company of others and not alone, left to my own devices, i.e. the tools of moping, self-pity, sloth, inability to stop channel surfing for something that will give my life meaning. Better to be in the company of bosses, aka pots.”
My guess is she didn’t have any other questions
K~I’m totally going to start calling you Polyanna. But thank you.
Twin~I think there must be something in the air for us Libras. Especially those of us born on the 30th. The thought of the Spin-Out is what’s pulling me through everything right now.
Jenny~I let out a big cheer when I saw your comment - yet another reason to look forward to the Spin-Out! I will definitely see you there. And I think you might have hit it on the head for me, my twenties were a time of a lot of fun, a lot of growth, and a lot of big changes. Now I just have to convince myself that my thirties will be the same. That’s going to take some time.
Pan~If I were at home? I’d be watching House and Doctor Who. Nothing like snarkiness and hot men to distract us from the PMS! We shall not speak of the marble cake that I made last weekend and ate mostly by myself…
So when are you getting a new job that will result in less PMS?