Horoscope (by astrocenter.com)

Parts of your life are apt to clash in a huge explosive breakdown today, dear Scorpio. Be careful when driving or operating anything having to do with fire or explosives. The atmosphere today is just that: explosive. Actions you take now may set off a whole chain of violent reactions that may be difficult to tame once they get underway. Return to your center as often as possible in order to calm your more aggressive tendencies.

...yeah...you got that right...Boss is a scorpio also...

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today's lecture: tissues

it takes the aggravation of just one issue in Boss' life, to send him into a dizzying fray. it is a given. when he suffers in the slightest, everyone must suffer with him.

his short stocky countenance appeared in hurricane speed all around the small office this morning, leaving no cubicle or room unaffected. victims of this cube farm were frazzled to say the least.

he staccato-ed himself to my desk with the inventory list in hand. i had turned in the monthly inventory list for him to review and sign, just yesterday. since, this season is prime time for my nose to get attacked by allergens of all sorts, i had added to our inventory list, 6 small boxes of kleenex coldcare tissues.

Boss leans over the half-wall of my desk, and shakes the inventory in my face:

"first of all... who requested these tissues??"

i paused for a moment, not quite understanding the question.

"i did. i have allergies."

i thought to myself, "why is knowing who requested them so damn important?

he proceeded to irritate me:

"well...i don't order tissues firstly...especially ones with lotion in them...", and points his big fat sausage finger on top of the word "lotion" that i had written.

this was disgusting enough. i didn't want to see his overinflated extremities any further, so i stared at my desk, and half-listened to him blabber about this and that.

ultimately, the point that i gathered from this five minute monologue, was that if someone in the office was to suffer an allergic reaction to the lotion in this tissue, that person could quite possibly sue the company.

wtf?

his paranoia seems to be limitless, and it never ceases to amaze me.

whatever. forget the tissue. he can use the back of his sleeve when he snorts all of that crud at his desk. i'm getting my own damn tissue. call me a rebel.