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Seneschal - January 15, 2000
Jan. 15th, 2000 12:19 pmA co-worker told me I was "territorial" the other day. I replied that at least I didn't have children, since that would make it worse. But I didn't believe him. Until I started thinking about it today, driving home from Toronto.
I took my husband and a friend into Toronto today to go fabric shopping. The friend is just starting to sew, and my husband is on the hunt for giraffe print fabric, preferably fake-fur. On the way back, the friend and the husband had a long discussion about lots of things. It may have been my headache, but I was vaguely resentful of their presences. I suspect that it wasn't entirely my headache.
I drive a lot. I bought my brand new mini-van in June, and it currently has 26000 kilometers on it. Far and away, the bulk of those kilometers were driven alone, just me and the car. I suspect that I tend to think of it as mine, shared marital property that it is.
Back to the office. The co-worker was using part of my work-space to set up some equipment. I didn't mind the equipment being there. As the time wore on, I found the presence of the wires going behind my chair, and the slight over-crowding of the space when he was actually working there to be slightly frustrating. Mostly I think I like comfort in my work environment.. to have things ordered the way I most like to work, without reference to anyone else.
So, I think my co-worker is probably right - I do like my space, and that probably counts as being territorial.
As a note, I probably won't update on Sunday night. I suspect my time will be better spent actually uploading everything I've written this week to the server. So anyone who wants to can actually read it.
I took my husband and a friend into Toronto today to go fabric shopping. The friend is just starting to sew, and my husband is on the hunt for giraffe print fabric, preferably fake-fur. On the way back, the friend and the husband had a long discussion about lots of things. It may have been my headache, but I was vaguely resentful of their presences. I suspect that it wasn't entirely my headache.
I drive a lot. I bought my brand new mini-van in June, and it currently has 26000 kilometers on it. Far and away, the bulk of those kilometers were driven alone, just me and the car. I suspect that I tend to think of it as mine, shared marital property that it is.
Back to the office. The co-worker was using part of my work-space to set up some equipment. I didn't mind the equipment being there. As the time wore on, I found the presence of the wires going behind my chair, and the slight over-crowding of the space when he was actually working there to be slightly frustrating. Mostly I think I like comfort in my work environment.. to have things ordered the way I most like to work, without reference to anyone else.
So, I think my co-worker is probably right - I do like my space, and that probably counts as being territorial.
As a note, I probably won't update on Sunday night. I suspect my time will be better spent actually uploading everything I've written this week to the server. So anyone who wants to can actually read it.
