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Moving backwards to Friday, that was the day that the week came to a head for me. I was really down and a bit pissed Friday night. Being exhausted didn't help, but I even passed up some after work Crown & Cokes to just come home. The week was a bit stressful and busy, but nothing too out of the ordinary. Besides I would rather be stressed and busy than bored. But on Friday I was given the task of doing the annual performance evaluation for a couple of employees. And I was given about an hour to the deadline to finish them. At first I was told by my boss not to worry about doing them because I had not worked with the individuals too long and he would take care of them. But he did not start them early enough and the deadline to have them submitted was 4:00 Friday. But I didn't mind doing them because it is part of my job and he is a good guy even if he puts things off till the last minute. Its just that the eval's at my company are kind of long and doing two in an hour while taking care of the branch on a Friday afternoon is challenging. But anyway, the issue comes up after I finished and we were talking about my evaluation. He shared with me that one section of mine might not be as high as I expected. He softened that by saying overall it will be a good evaluation but one section I may not agree with and he only has a little say in it. It turns out, he explained, that one of the higher ups feels I was the reason for the conflict that made my former coworker quit. And I should mention this individual was the one who hired her and of course it does not make them look that great when one of their managers quits after a short time. My boss says not to worry about it and that everyone knows the truth and he and others will fight for their people and this is just one person. But it bugs the hell out of me that I should have to defend myself over this person who was not competant, not a team player, and just lazy. Luckily there is room for employee comments. Maybe it shouldn't, but this one thing makes me feel like everything I have done here gets overlooked and this issue over this person gets creedence. That's bullshit. And it makes me think more about doing something else. It seems like everyone I know and have gotten to know here in Pittsburgh does something they enjoy or has a job that makes some kind of difference in the world. I mean I would like to be a little more excited about what I do. And more money would be nice too because at this stage in life I always pictured being a little farther along financially. BUt one neat thing about my week ending was on Friday Finnigan seemed to know how I felt. He was extra cuddly and did all the rights things to make me go "awwwww." It's neat how perceptive animals can be.

Speaking of the Finnmeister, I promised him when I left for Caribou this morning that I would get him some turkey on my way home since I have been out for a few days and he so looks forward to it as a treat. And of course I forgot so I relented and opened a can of the wet mushy can cat food that he also thinks is total greatness when it is actually total grossness. I do buy the little individual bags of sliced wet food for a treat every so often but those are not as bad as the cans of mush. But I promised a treat so I popped open a can. Now I have to look forward to a big stink bomb in the litter box later. He's lucky he is so cute.