You know it’s a bad month when the most straightforward and
competent organization you deal with is the California Department of Motor
Vehicles. That was my July, all month long.
From the coup in Turkey, which gives Erdogan carte blanche
to go all Stalin and liquidate thousands of people who express an opinion of
him he considers inadequate, to the death of a friend’s son in a horrible car
crash, the entire month of July just sucked.
(It was interesting to me that when I mentioned both events
to a colleague last week, he dismissed my dismay about Turkey, even though he
understands that Turks
have form when it comes to genocide, and he story-topped my friend’s loss
by telling me that the son of someone he used to work with—“she’s bat-shit
crazy”—was diagnosed with brain cancer. I’ve already deduced that this person
is probably ADHD, but this reinforced my understanding that most opinions I
express at work are going to be considered irrelevant.)
Then there’s the cluster around the “tiger
team” project at work, and my realization that the entire exercise has been
a bit of a Potemkin Village cruise…
Well, anyway, today I am well and truly grateful that July
is in my rearview mirror.
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