Occupational hazards

I’ve been trying to figure out why I find work so annoying and so exhausting! The only time I remember this happening before was when I worked in Tesco… briefly. The problem is, it’s a job where I can’t be myself. I don’t know the people I work with all that well, and likewise they don’t know me all that well.

When I started working in the cinema, I was surrounded by boys. Personally I find it a lot easier to hold a conversation with men than women. As soon as I say anything along the lines of Xbox or Star Wars, you gain a rapport with a bloke. Even if they have no interest in these things whatsoever, they tend to relax and let you be yourself. When I worked in Currys, the majority of the other staff were techies, and being a geek is nothing to shout about.

In a Jewelery shop, the majority of the staff are girls, and girly girls at that (Except, I discovered, one girl who is a techie but only works part time). It may sound ridiculous, but I’m kinda worried about outing myself as a geek, and there’s really not much I feel passionate about that wouldn’t make me look like a freak if I talked about it. Without passion for anything, going about your daily business is just exhausting. Trying to be someone else constantly isn’t normal, and I really miss having a job where I can just relax and be myself! I keep thinking I must seem so boring to the people I work with.

The problem is, even if I do out myself I don’t see it making much of a difference because there’s no one I can really relate to. On the other hand, maybe I’ve completely misjudged everyone and geeking out at work might make it far more bearable!

Vicki is grumpy and here’s why….

Today I saw one of those Darwin Fish car thingies, and after having a giggle about it and kinda wanting one, it occured to me that having such a thing on my car would have me pegged as an atheist! This is stupid and here’s why….

First of all, Darwin does not contradict Christianity and here’s why…. [stop saying that dammit]

Yes, creationism took a hit, and yes the Vatican, as usual, completely overreacted making everyone associated with them look like idiots, but here’s the thing… science and religion doesn’t have to be an either/or situation!

For a start, there’s scientific evidence to support the creation story. To understand that however, you have to stop taking every word of the Bible literally. Time for example, doesn’t necessarily have to be taken literally, especially when referring to a god of any description. We’re even told in the bible that time is meaningless to God, ok? This is how creationists end up sounding like idiots. So anyway, is pretty much an accepted fact that the order things in the creation story happen is pretty much correct, and science backs that up. So we start with nothing, then ‘bang’ you have matter (sun, moon, earth and skies if you like!), then a ‘day’ later you have land and sea, and all that other stuff. The next day was night and day again, I never really got that…

You get the idea anyway. The third day you get life (plant life for now, but life none the less) and then two ‘days’ later there are animals. The day only represents a point in time, not necessarily 24 hours. The animals there on the fifth day aren’t even named. Could’ve been single celled organisms, could’ve been dinosaurs… So moving on to day six, it’s a generally accepted fact that every man and every woman is descended from a single ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’. Then on the seventh day he rested. Who knows what that’s supposed to mean! Maybe it hasn’t happened yet! Maybe some day they’ll be saying on the seventh day God created electronics!

I’m not necessarily saying I’m right here, just explaining an option!

It’s insanely annoying to be told evolution didn’t happen based on nothing more than a nostalgic belief in a story, but It’s equally annoying to be told that story is a pile of crap because the people spouting it are incapable of explaining it in any way other that “IT SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE!!”.

While I’m on the subject… It drives me crazy when people who think they know what they’re talking about try to explain the human-ape connection. Common ancestor people!!!

So the point of that rant is: Don’t label people as an atheist because they believe in evolution!

Next time… Noah’s Ark