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i thought Last week was hell
Mar. 12th, 2003 08:51 pmi thought i was working with adults. i guess i was wrong. Those people i was very near to not liking yesterday, i genuinely don't want to have as friends today. They were sneaky and cowardly and i can not abide that. We had a showdown today right after noon. i will not hold anything against them. i will continue to be civil to them at work. i will not be mean or spiteful, but i feel betrayed by people i trusted and i am not going to set myself up for anything like that again. It is not worth it. They are not worth it. And they are no longer a part of my life outside the office.
It's no great loss, in one way. One of the bad things about being overseas is that if you want friends, you may have to become friendly with people away from home that you would not consider being friendly with at home. It happens all the time, the friend pool is just too small. i have tried going to clubs and groups for Americans overseas. That can cause problems. One women's group here is made up of women i have nothing in common with. i don't mean to sound a snob, but their husbands have technical educations. The wives, for the most part, have a high school education. They have recently come into the money in Kuwait. They can be divided into four groups. Group one are the women who are so busy spending their husbands' money that the only thing they will have to show for their time when they get back to the Oklahoma trailer park is some gaudy trinkets and clothes that don't fit their lifestyle. Group two are women who have young children and don't work here. They can only talk about johnny's soccer game or sally's t'ball practice. My babies are older than they are for the most part. i've been there, done that and survived. i don't want to talk about it. Group three are the american women who have married Kuwaiti men and gone islam. They cover and say allah (PBUH) and put on such a show of being good muslim women that they act like Kuwaiti women. That is not a nice comparison. Then there are the philippina women who will spread their legs for anything american just so they can get pregnant and get that green card. i have absolutely nothing in common with them. This sounds so snobbish. There are women like me here. Unfortunately many of them teach at the university. That becomes an incestuous relationship. It is not safe to socialize with women you work with. It always ends badly.
i'm feeling sorry for myself tonight. i have a good life. i have Master and Max. i have a few men who work with Master that i like and can talk to, but most of them have philippna wives who get so very jealous so very easily. They avoid me like the plague because i don't know because. They just avoid me. They are young women, who may be perfectly nice but have sold themselves for a green card. i don't blame them. i just don't want to socialize with them.
Gad i must be in the dumps. A whole treatise on the foreign women of Kuwait.
It's no great loss, in one way. One of the bad things about being overseas is that if you want friends, you may have to become friendly with people away from home that you would not consider being friendly with at home. It happens all the time, the friend pool is just too small. i have tried going to clubs and groups for Americans overseas. That can cause problems. One women's group here is made up of women i have nothing in common with. i don't mean to sound a snob, but their husbands have technical educations. The wives, for the most part, have a high school education. They have recently come into the money in Kuwait. They can be divided into four groups. Group one are the women who are so busy spending their husbands' money that the only thing they will have to show for their time when they get back to the Oklahoma trailer park is some gaudy trinkets and clothes that don't fit their lifestyle. Group two are women who have young children and don't work here. They can only talk about johnny's soccer game or sally's t'ball practice. My babies are older than they are for the most part. i've been there, done that and survived. i don't want to talk about it. Group three are the american women who have married Kuwaiti men and gone islam. They cover and say allah (PBUH) and put on such a show of being good muslim women that they act like Kuwaiti women. That is not a nice comparison. Then there are the philippina women who will spread their legs for anything american just so they can get pregnant and get that green card. i have absolutely nothing in common with them. This sounds so snobbish. There are women like me here. Unfortunately many of them teach at the university. That becomes an incestuous relationship. It is not safe to socialize with women you work with. It always ends badly.
i'm feeling sorry for myself tonight. i have a good life. i have Master and Max. i have a few men who work with Master that i like and can talk to, but most of them have philippna wives who get so very jealous so very easily. They avoid me like the plague because i don't know because. They just avoid me. They are young women, who may be perfectly nice but have sold themselves for a green card. i don't blame them. i just don't want to socialize with them.
Gad i must be in the dumps. A whole treatise on the foreign women of Kuwait.
