Please don't mind me. I'm in the middle of a very long day right now, and I need some outlet to gripe about it.

I've been having meetings up the wazoo all day, and then have my weekly social obligations tonight. I want to deal with NONE OF IT. I don't feel like being professionally pleasant today. But I have to be. Come one, Bjørnen, turn up the brightness in your voice. They can sense weakness.

I should be grateful for my place in life. I should be thankful for my job, and for the fact that I have friends who love me and would be sad if they didn't get to see me every week. But today I don't want any of it. I feel like an ungrateful, socially inept mess today. I just want to isolate myself from the outside world.

How many more meandering, faux-pleasant conversations are left in the work day? Five more hours? Groan.

Sorry. I'll probably be back to complain more before the day's over.