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And one last thing on office politics, something with which I am completely unfamiliar outside of the sitcom world: boy, am I proud and admiring of how Gina and Linn openly challenge the authority figures they see doing wrong. It wouldn't even occur to either of them to accept it. This is something I know just from knowing them; they're loving and sweet and kind people, but just as much, they don't take no bullshit. It's just a fact about them, outside of any value judgements; just a part of their personalities. When something is wrong, they'll look someone in the face and simply say "no". Not in a questioning or a taunting way, but matter-of-factly. It's something that I hold in complete awe. I've never experienced office politics, and in some occasions where I've been pushed around in this thing we call life I've become quite Mean and Bitchy in defense of what I perceive to be my rights, but never in the way that I see those girls do it. It's not in my blood. It is my nature to doubt my own correctness, to passively allow authority to do what authority deems fit, to allow others to be trampled if it isn't my place to stop them. I can't think of any specific examples of this but it seems to me something that I am. This is part of, perhaps, what frightens me about joining the work force (for more than three days). I can duck and dodge, I can blend in and echo the opinions of whomever I'm with, losing myself in the process, all of which are important parts of the game, but I value strength and conviction so much more than that. Lions are so much more effective than chameleons.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:43 AM | shower me with attention