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To: Edwarda who wrote (347)	2/28/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Hubert Few	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 368

Youze expounded: "This crazed appearing blonde running around yelling for Hubert! Until the nice men in white coats arrive with their nets, that is.... Hmmmm, my experiences with the "Men in White" have not been so nice! Unless you call being wrestled to the ground in a non-sexual manner and given massive amounts of thorazine nice! They probably don't use that anymore, and I don't know since I have been more or less stable for going on 10 years! (imagine what I would be like when I was not stable, eh????)Ha! Genetic pre-dispositions can be a real bitch sometimes....I remember screaming at my mother once that I thought she needed "professional help".....man, I only made that mistake once! I have a confession to make to the troops, if anyone is taking notes. I seem to have "forgotten" to take my "mood stabilizers" for several weeks now. I do that a couple of times a year. My behavior here and elsewhere speaks volumes of the result. My wife kept at me till I started back....I have tried to explain to her that I don't have a problem controlling my "mania", that I'm fine as long as nobody messes with me. No man (or woman) is an island, and I suppose a certain amount of "civic duty" is implied in the sacred institution of marriage, like, oh, not terrorizing your family and destroying community property and the like! I do this little "confessional" from time to time to remind those of "normal" mental constitution what a blessed thing that must be. I rather do like to talk about myself if anyone noticed....<g> Cheers!

To: Edwarda who wrote (347)	2/28/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Hubert Few	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 368

....and since I am in such a shamelessly introspective and outwardly communicative mode. My references to "problems at work" were indeed real. It's a very complex thing, hard to relate even to my wife because the details are always tediously complicated and of singular interest to myself and those involved. Typically I find myself in a snowball of "interactions" with co-workers who I normally either have warm feelings for or at least tolerate. I put alot of myself into my work. Work is one of the constants I depend on to "make sense" of things. Well, I was in a very important meeting about a costly and less than successful "rollout" of certain software within our company. I was a proponent, advocate, and volunteer. Well, it has not gone well. Millions of dollars in resources are involved, and I abruptly and openly stated that termination of the program might be warranted, and I also offered as to how I might take an easy out from my responsibilities if given one. I was nervous because some new higher level managers were involved with whom I had "personality" issues in the past. I did not feel I should have even been involved in this particular meeting since it was one more for the "generalists" involved. I told several people I planned to"sit on my hands" and that my concerns had already been entered into the written agenda (curiously mine were the only articulated views laid out in advance)sooooo, the stage was set, the only thing needed was my cue, I went off on a tirade that opened some folk's eyes....to say the least. One of the guys central to the issues was at a remote location and abruptly hung up on the conference call, it was a huge big deal in my immediate superior's eyes. When I was "called to the carpet" I offered as to how I was just "venting", and that I was sorry it happened, blah, blah, blah. My only real concern at the time was getting off of work early so I could go look at motorcycles....maybe that lack of interest was somehow "subliminally" communicated, because I had a difficult time "diffusing" the situation. I had to sit there while this fellow (whom I had always gotten along with splendidly in the past) reamed my posterior orifice. I could have easily gotten fired. So, did I do a good "generic" description there? Does anyone here relate? It is hard being a creative genius in a world of "conventionalists" whose only opinions are derived from the status quo. But hey.....that' just me, ya know????? Thanks for giving me an outlet to put the final raps on this. Next week my boss and a couple of co-workers are going to be in Colorado on a ski-ing trip. I will pretty much have the department to myself, and I am looking forward to a productive week. I don't ski, and I don't brown-nose, and I don't do groveling very well either it seems, and have always had to rely on old-fashioned hard work to traverse the political land mines out there. Hey, bully for me! Drinks on the house!