You can often tell much about the true character of a person when they’re put in a stressful situation. That’s a given truth. The office is a prime example of such a stressful environment.

I’m sort of just sitting here as usual. I’m waiting for a particular document that will allow me to proceed with my work. It was promised by someone in California that it would be sent to me today. Perhaps though, this person forgot that it’s Memorial Day in the States–meaning they wouldn’t be in office.

Well great.

So OK, I’m trying to find myself some work right now. In between, I’ve been visiting other students located around the building. This is where I’m sort of boggled.

Some people are so relaxed and really happy to take time off work to chat or go for a break. As one person put it, these people are quite chill. Other people are just so work oriented that they give off the body language that you’re bothering them…this despite the fact that they’re not critically busy. These people are really un-chill.

Today is Monday, and I’m surrounded by people who are “un-chill”. I want to bash my head against the wall. Unfortunately for me, doing so won’t pass the time any quicker.

As I’m sitting in my cubicle coding something out, I’m hearing someone in the vicinity listening to streaming radio using headphones. They’re playing the music loud enough so that I can hear it from where I’m sitting.

For one thing, that’s sort of forbidden, so it makes me wonder and sort of wish IT will say something, but they likely won’t. Anyway, the radio was just playing Going Under by Evanescence. It makes me wonder. I haven’t listened to that CD in a while. I mean, it’s sort of dark and depressing, and try as I might, I’m finding that it’s getting harder to be at ease listening to that CD. I’ve been trying to maintain a happier mood of sorts, know what I mean?

That being said, I was absolutely captivated by the song emanating from the co-worker’s cubicle. I knew the lyrics. I knew the tune. I would’ve sang along if no one else was around. It made me wish I had the CD with me in my backpack. Alas, I took it out of my backpack a while ago. Problem was, because it was from streaming audio, the sound was intermittent as the buffer occasionally ran out. Several times during the song I was sort of “floating” thinking of the lyrics when it would cut off all suddenly. Damn it, let me listen uninterrrupted!

The song’s now over. I’ve got to get back to coding. There’s no escape.