I seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time getting into
And since I'm leaving this as a public posting on Facebook and LiveJournal, let me say this ... no, I'm not talking about you, whoever you are. I've seen this happen multiple times, with multiple different people. I could name off all the incidents, but ... there's that acid in the stomach again ... and again, I'm trying to be professional about this and not air my dirty laundry in public.
But lately, I've been wondering. If this keeps happening over, and over, and over again ... is it really the case that I just keep bumping into people who are nuts? Occam's Razor would suggest that it's me who's nuts, not everyone else.
I do have people in my life who tell me that, no, I'm not nuts, I'm just
So ... I don't know. I've got enough presence of mind to have gotten self-introspective lately. It might very well be that I've just run into too many brick walls lately --- all the brick walls that everyone else has given up on long ago, and it appears to be my turn. (We all celebrate the hero who conquers the world, but forget that it really sucked to be the hero in the midst of the battle.) But there's a part of me that wonders if I'm becoming one of those cranky old guys who just seems to pick fights with anyone and everyone else.