Well, it's been some time since I posted, but I am in fact alive.

Proof of the fact will be offered in this link to the Limerick Database, containing verse both witty and perverse (definitely NOT work safe).

What fragrance/cologne do you put on when it's your night out? 
Submitted by noiq.

Volupte by Oscar de la Renta

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What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life?
Submitted by bodhibound.

The only book, film, record or whatever that I can truly claim changed my life is the movie of The Hours. 

I went and saw it at a time when I was desperately depressed and suicidal.  I struggled every day with the impulse to kill myself, to end it all.  I knew Virginia Woolf's pain as she weighted herself down with stones and stepped into the river.  I wept with empathy and pain when Julianne Moore's character decided to commit suicide despite being pregnant.

And could not restrain my shock when her character walked into Meryl Streep's party some 40 years after her supposed suicide.

I had never, until that moment, considered the possibility that I could survive being suicidal.  That I might be able to live through the pain I was going through.  That, despite feeling so desperate that death seemed the only option, I could avoid acting on the suicidal feelings and actually make it through.

So in a very real way, The Hours changed my life in such a way that it gave me the option to live.

God I hate my job.  I really truly do.   Its such a toxic situation here that I have recently had to take sick leave due to workplace bullying from my second line manager, which of course has just made the situation worse.  HR may tell you that they are there for the employees, but really, their purpose is to serve the company - and the company is served if we all shut up and work like good little drones without making any waves.   And, of course, even if the problem is the manager (ie. it is not just me that he bullies) it is far easier to manage an employee out than to manage the manager out.   

Why, yes, I am bitter.  Why do you ask.

So why don't I leave?   Well, that is on the cards, but I want to stick it out to my 10 year anniversary which is coming up soonish, as in Australia that means we get an additional 4 weeks long service leave on top of the normal annual leave.  And if you resign, it is paid out to you (but is, unforutunately, taxed as a lump sum).

Right now, I am being a bad employee and blogging while at work.  But I really can't bring myself to give a flying hoot. 

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