Well, I slept on my foot wrong last night. So I'm greeting the morning with the inevitable soreness and pain. I've got a few hours before I have to leave for work, so I'm sitting on the recliner waiting for the Motrin to kick in.

I'm still irritated about having to spend $40 as appeasement because my competition feels the need to "tattle to teacher" anytime I do something she doesn't like. Not necessarily wrong or against policy, anything like that. Just petty stuff she finds grinds her gears and she gets a sympathetic ear.

That's the crux of it, I think. I expect to be undermined anytime I have a degree of power and/or influence. Frankly, I am undermined anytime I have power and/or influence. From my competition to my dad and cousin to all those supervisors (back in the day) who told me (in one case, verbatim) "I would rather see you fired than get any kind of responsibility."

Is it really paranoia if they're actually out to get you?