At the Office

So I'm here in the Shorthorn office. It's nothing like Office Space, or the Office. For one thing, the majority of us are girls, and girls don't take the front in those comedies.

I'm Pam. Everyone's Pam. She's quiet and sweet and intelligent and average. And she sometimes wears coke bottle glasses. Don't get me started on glasses. They are eye blinders, where you can only look straight ahead, they mess up your close-up vision. Nope, can't focus on those sheets that have an ugly pink flower pattern anymore. When do you need this vision? Not ever really, but I feel it's on principle that I should be able to see that up-close. But no, I'm blinded to not only a few feet in front of my face, but also a inch directly in front of my face. So don't get me started on the evils of glasses. The evils of contacts are stretchy eyelids, but that's another story.

So here in the office where people are supposed to work. And we do. And the laugh factor is high here. On my laugh-o-meter. I have one.

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Today I did a more realistic assessment of my finances for the Fall 2008 school year. Turns out I'll need more money than I'd expected, because of medical bills, and the fact that I'm finally attempting to sort out my face, acne-wise.

You think years of being grossed out by pimples should have turned me sooner, but I feel like my acne is my shield against the world. I pop them when I am anxious and the satisfaction of a good squeeze sometimes helps me get through the day. I don't know what I'll do without them. Like that Family Guy episode where the pimple took over in Chris' life, my acne has defined who I am.

Maybe the regime they will put me through will take it's place. Wash every evening with Purpose soap, put on a scar fading cream, then in the morning take a huge pink pill, wash it down with the others. In the morning rinse the face and put a pimple vanishing cream dotted on each pimple.

While a regimen may not or may take it's place, I hope I learn to live without the pain of having pimples.