There's this individual I work with. I should probably list the reasons why she's not my favourite person in the world. She tends to shrug duties off on other people. She sponges on the system. She's lazy. And stupid. And tends to give commands as opposed to asking someone politely to do something.

I work with her. I've had to make presentations for her (the boss instructed me to). She's presented my work with her as first author. I've had to show her to do data mining to identify genes (sorry, technical, can't go into detail). She was supposed to do some additional work for a project of ours. She's had 8 months. She's done nothing. Now I have to help her. And I detest her. Detest detest detest. And the cosmic joke is the fact that she also shares a house with me. The boss rents it for all her students, so it's free. So one doesn't rock the boat. But she's pushy and loud and oblivious of how badly she affects me. These days it's really difficult to come to work or go home, because I'm forever reminding myself to drop my shoulders out of my ears. They tend to creep up gradually the longer I'm in the same room as this person. And I stop breathing.

We had a meeting this morning - me, the boss, and this person. It made me feel physicall ill. I'm sitting here trying not to vomit from stress. I feel thoroughly upset, and I can't think straight. I know I'm not making sense. I can't string two coherent ideas together.

Anyway, I feel like Charlotte in Lost in Translation so many times. So here's a pic. Because I can.