Tell me why I don't like Mondays.

I'm finally starting to win the war with the influenza fairy. After almost overdosing on Neo Citran and multi-vitamins I am beginning to feel human once again. It comes with good timing as well because I am going to start to get crazy busy as everyone from work is returning from their Christmas and New Years vacations. Anyone with the word "Assistant" in their job title knows that means that I return to being everyone's "bitch".

It appears that now that I finally have my mind fully dedicated to school, a thousand opportunities have now knocked on my door. An old boss of mine is furiously trying to get me to go work for her (for another property management firm) and I recently turned down two other offers for senior positions. Of course these types of offers didn't happen when I was on the verge of walking off my job 6 months ago.

On a side note... I hate the news. I usually avoid reading the newspaper at work because it makes me either sad, angry, or disappointed when I am otherwise in a perfectly happy mood. I can generally tolerate reading about world events, etc. but I always manage to catch the article about animal cruelty and get into a raging ball of fury and anger. For some background, I am a self proclaimed animal lover. I have two kitties who are like my children and would have to say I have a kinship to animals of all types. When I read any article about cruelty to my "best friends" I get so worked up about it that it literally takes me a whole day to get over it. Case and point: I'm standing by the lineup to get water from the water cooler and right beside me the paper is opened up to a headline titled "Cat Cruelty". At this point, I can no longer close the newspaper and can feel the pit of my stomach start to sink. As the paper relays to me, three young teens decided to stick a cat inside a microwave and turn it on. The cat died from severe burns and basically being cooked alive. It was all I could do from trying to restrain myself from driving up to this town and beating these kids with the nearest 2x4 I could find. I can't even fathom this type of animal cruelty. The sad part is that the punishment for animal cruelty is not severe enough in Alberta and as young offenders with no prior records, they will probably only get a slap on the wrist.

Alright, i've vented and feel a little bit better. I'd feel a LOT better though if I knew that more people out there were looking out for our little four legged friends. I'm already an advocate of the local SPCA but sometimes feel like even that is not enough. Perhaps I will add on to my list of New Years resolutions and try to become a "better animal activist".