Things that seem like a good idea when you’re manic: Drawing moustaches onto sticky backed paper and plastering them all over your workstation.
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I’ve had six jobs in the past year. One of them involved working at a telecoms company.
One day in January, while manic, I decided to draw loads of moustaches and stick them to my monitor. I thought that this was the BEST IDEA EVER.
Then I stuck them to my face:
I thought I was so clever and creative that I ran into the director’s office. This room contained all the “important” people in the company.
The director looked at me as though I was, ha, mad and muttered something non descript. Buoyed with confidence, I decided to run up and down the twelfth floor in my fantastic facial apparel, singing.
All of this only lasted a few minutes at around five, so no-one really took any notice (except the guy next to me) but it was a fun few minutes.
After work, I went and spent about £100 on nick nacks and got a black taxi home, costing £25. In the backseat, I felt like Diana Ross.
Earlier that week, I had applied for thirteen jobs. Most of these were as a gym instructor.
Speaking of photos, it has been asked, why do I always look so grumpy and serious in photos?
Ah, let me demonstrate while I sit here in my big leopardprint coat so that I don’t die of cold. It’s because the photos I take aren’t sponaetanous, therefore, you have to employ Fake Smile:
Which looks absolutely terrifying.
So, even though it’s grouchy and unedifying, the sideways glare will save your bowels.
Isn’t my nose a delightful colour of red.
Filed under: Bipolar Disorder, Craziness, getting it wrong, mania, manic depression, photos | Tagged: Bipolar Disorder, mania, manic depression, photos
Stumble It!
J. P. Donleavy for the win.
Apparently Johnny Depp is set to play Seb. Dangerfield in a film adaptation
Wha? Where did I mention Donleavy?
The fake smile is terrifying.
You didn’t. A copy of the onion eaters appeared in the background of a photo that you had up where you lay against the bottom and left side of the frame and had fancy eye make-up.
My cheeks are always that red. I feel like a clown when the winter chill bites. Jack Fucking Frost – bastard.
Oh, okay. I am a very big Donleavy fan and thought you were psychic.
More physic than psychic. Alas
My anti-mania meds used to keep me in a zombiesque stupor, and I lost several jobs simply by sleeping through them. Then there was the job as a paint mixer in the hardware store, where I forgot to hammer the lids closed and purple paint exploded across the store. Then there was the job as a 4th grade teacher I simply stopped going to. Teaching yoga is working for me, though. Good luck with the gym teaching jobs. There’s something wonderful about moving the body and staying centered.
The gym teaching stuff was a case of mania making me think I could do it! I’m 4 stone overweight and hate exercise, I never could and have no interest in it!
Ah. I’m too new to your blog to know better. I’ll shut it.
*ramble alert*
I’m very, very thankful that the place I usually occupy in a company is one where a certain amount of quirkiness is tolerated. The moustache idea is now in my head, and if they haven’t already hidden the supply of PostIt Notes from me (I have a habit of rolling them up quite tightly, bending them into a right angle and spinning them around, making them tap rapidy on the table) then my workstation will be covered with moustaches very soon. I don’t see why other people should be spared this, so I think each monitor will get a beard.
For a period of time last week, I ended most of my sentences with “Thaaank you! In a fabulous way!”
The reason for this I might expand upon in a future blog entry. If I can find the video…
Other things my office companions have put up with :
Human Bowling – grabbing a coworker’s chair while they are still occupying it and running down the center of the office with them hanging on to the chair for dear life, then launching the chair as far as I can.
Wiring their ‘F4′ key to pop up the message “YOU ARE GAY” – then laughing uncontrollably for approximately an hour when they press it.
Sticking their glass of water to their desk with blu-tack.
Saying “Bon Jovi!” instead of “Hello”.
Many other phrases that amused me at the time and I repeated over and over, usually falling about laughing at them. I fail to remember any of them now. But there have been so many…
I have to go now. It is bedtime for me.
very amusing xXx
Fantastic post, I’m not sure which bit made me laugh the most!
wow thats f’ing brilliant; wish i could do that at work.
I couldn’t- I lost my job soon after.
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Is it possible to go through a short period of manic depression and then never have it again? I started really losing the plot for a period of about 4-5 months at my last job, jabbering constantly, usually repeating little phrases from films or songs and or past private jokes that would mean nothing to anyone else in the room- although i don’t think i was actually intending to engage anyone else in the room in conversation as such, laughing hysterically, constantly bantering and asking questions of my colleagues, swearing loudly at the printers and usually beating them up, openly taking the piss out of my director who sat round the corner, and making board games and forcing everyone to play them. Then it all stopped and I became reclusive and quiet and extremely unhappy, not speaking to people for days and then when I did, what I said usually had some underlying nastiness to it. All of the above completely not like ‘me’. I knew at the time the way I was behaving was abnormal and I had to change. I actually remember thinking i was ‘ill’. Finally i was in a position where I was able to changed a lot of things in my life and having done so,slowly I have become ‘me’ again. I have never had this before or since. Any ideas what happened?
Yeah, it’s possible. Some people have one episode and never have another.
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