Quick fly-by lunch posting

1. Brought my wooden cane, which I used to stumble about on two years ago, to work today - and made my cubicle wall mate and co-worker's day. Her 27 year old daughter needs it for Halloween. She's going as an old lady. Hee. It's the little things.

2. Have decided that I am addicted to chocolat. I go off it? I get headaches and am depressed and all bad moody. Get back on, happy, although too much - weirdly manic. So must be careful. Chocolat..my drug of choice. Currently limiting my self to only "dark" chocolat, which has had the unfortunate side-effect of making milk chocolat taste too sweet and sugary and fatty and disgusting. Very weird. My tastes appear to be changing...on everything.

The Good Wife

Watched The Good Wife this past Sunday, which was a lot better than the last two weeks. Although my attention kept wandering during it. No fault of the Good Wife's. Mostly just work related. I have a mentally tasking and frustrating occupation - as one co-worker put it on the walk to the subway, they constantly put obstacles in our path all day long and we have to navigate around them. Constant negotiation, problem solving, and facilitating. And a bit on the thankless side of the fence. Time was that I would go out partying, write several chapters of whatever novel I was working on, go to the theater, out for drinks, take a class, do pottery, go to book club after work. Now? I'm too tired. I just want to go home, fix dinner, talk to the Momster, watch television, and fiddle on the net. Discussed this with two different co-workers today, and realized it wasn't just me. With or without families? They feel the same way. Which begs the question? Why stay? Because it is a really good job and I don't know what else I'd do, and I like aspects of it. But it does bleed into my real life, I'm less tolerant of strong differences of opinion or fights in my lj over tv shows or politics. I find myself more frustrated. And I use my lj, too much perhaps, as a stress-reliever...or escape from frustration during the day, a welcome distraction.

One of the reasons I like The Good Wife - is in an odd way it resonates for me, I identify. Alicia Florek feels lonely, she really has no friends and spends most of her time working hard. And navigating a tricky political climate filled with different breeds of shark. Her daughter is equally struggling with friends. As is her private investigator, Kalinda, and various other female characters. Making female friends in this environment is tricky. Family is far away, or too close. And each relationship feels filled with landmines.
Often invisible ones. Of all the shows currently on TV right now, I think the Good Wife is by far the most realistic depiction of the American Legal system and political system within business or how our business world and legal system works. It's far from perfect of course.
But it comes the closest and in some respects reminds me a great deal of The Wire, except with female leads.

( Spoilers on the Good Wife )