I thought there would be more than enough “Thirteen things I’m thankful for” Thursday Thirteen posts this week in blogosphere, so I’ve decided on a grumpier kind. This is the list of thirteen things I did yesterday that I really, truly, most definitely did NOT want to do, but for the good of everybody involved (or not) I decided I’d better do.

1. I woked up in the morning. Well, if you’ve known me either IRL or virtually for a couple of weeks, you would know I hate mornings because the “waking up” aspect of it. So this is no small matter in that once I wake up in the morning, I consider I’m about half way through the day, except that I’m pessimistic in nature, I rather bemoan the fact that I have the entire half left in the day.
2. I drove 50 minutes. I hate driving. I hate traffic. I hate idiot drivers. I hate slow drivers. Of course the destination being work doesn’t help the matter.
3. I drove another 50 minutes. This time, heading home, so it is a little better than the aforementioned driving, but it doesn’t make me hate driving, traffic, idiot and slow drivers any less.
4. I worked. Yeah, well, need I elaborate?
5. I arrived at work early. I hate getting to work even a minute earlier than I need to because I don’t get paid for that amount of time while I have to stay at work at least 8 hours.
6. I agreed to work for an hour from home on Thanksgiving although I’m not on call. I really couldn’t care less about scratch tapes running out or backup tapes not being sent out during the long Thanksgiving weekend, especially since the two employees in our team don’t even bat an eye even when they are on call. I agreed so that the only conscientious coworker, another consultant I might add, would do it both Thursday and Friday for an hour each if I didn’t agree. Behold my angelic countenance! >>>
7. I bought my lunch at the cafeteria in the building. The first time I bought something from the cafeteria 3 weeks ago, I swore that I would never eat their food again because I got to spend $7 for lunch which didn’t make a dent in my mid-day hunger after finishing it. Of course I eat like a pig, but do they really expect me to be remotely satiated with a table spoon of tuna salad on a wrap? But having to start the work day at noon limited my options.
8. I said hi to the coworker whom I despise,  who in turn despises me. We have to work together and he had to assign SAN disks on the server I’m working on. So I had to be agreeable a smidgen.
9. I said bye to the coworker whom I despise, who in turn despises me. He was on his way to the data center to run the cable. I was supposed to open a ticket for him to go into the data center, and I didn’t. So I decided to be a little more agreeable.
10. I even wished the coworker, whom I despise, who in turn despises me, a happy Thanksgiving. I know, I know. But before you hastily decide I’m not such a bitch, let me  give you the reason and protect my reputation as a bitch. He was going to the data center to run the new cable and hook them up without a ticket. He could easily pull another cable and cause an outage and be blameless because I didn’t create a ticket. I was walking on thin ice. OK?
11. I said hi to the coworker who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion. I’m sure this guy despises me as well since my feelings toward him is well known around the office. But he’s too scared to show his real feelings and I think he keeps saying hi to me just to annoy me knowing that I don’t like saying hi to him.
12. I said bye to the coworker who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion. I’m telling you, this guy is doing this to annoy the crap out of me!!!
13. I resisted the urge to tell my boss and give him proof that the coworker – who sits on my left, whom I despise with burning passion – is not only an incompetent pretentious idiot, but also a liar. It was not easy. Not. At. All. But I did resist it. Because of him, the problem that could have been fixed on the server (which crashed after a power problem) in 30 minutes took 11 hours of restoring and recovering – the liability he denied and blamed the IBM support, but that’s why he’s stupid. Doesn’t he know we can prove he lied? In any case, I didn’t get him fired this time. Where is my reward?