I am so drained. Just reached home from work - stayed back two and a half hours cause there was just so much work to be done. I got 'chided' by my boss twice today, both times semi-related to communication. It's more or less my fault though, so I can't complain. At least I understand her style better now. I usually try to avoid asking people questions and working out solutions on my own, at least in the workplace, cause I always feel like I'm expected to be independent. However, she's a little perfectionistic and likes monitoring everything, and I realised that the teachers tend to ask her about every ambiguous detail. That actually works fine with me, since I'll be more certain of what to do; just have to adjust to her style.
On the plus side, I'll be taking leave from work tomorrow (which is why I had to finish so much today). Going down to the polyclinic to get a referral to an ENT doctor to do the scope thingy for my ear. It's usually a three-hour wait minimum, which I'll probably fill with word search puzzles (yes nerdy I know) and reading.
Oh and I really, really need to train myself to stop smiling automatically when anyone smiles at me. Yes I know this sounds like a good thing but it's not really, or at least it's kind of bizarre in my case. A few months ago I smiled (in a very friendly way) at two girls on the street whom I thought wanted me to do a survey (I've been in their position before and it's a pain, so I figured why not spare five minutes for sympathy's sake). I ended up being dragged to the nearby office of some health company and being told that I was bordering on being slightly overweight and should take so-and-so supplements as breakfast to help me lose weight. When five minutes turned into forty-five minutes, my friend called me laughing hysterically (I had texted him the brief details earlier) asking whether I had been kidnapped.
Anyway what happened today was - actually, you know what, after describing that incident this one feels too boring to go into detail about. Basically some random stranger just smiled at me and I automatically gave a very small smile back without even registering what I was doing and then I was like what on earth did I just do? But he didn't grab me and kidnap me away to Serbia so it doesn't matter I guess. Reminds me of the time some years back I was in some other country (Thailand I think?) where some creepy dude gestured to me to get on his motorbike. I wouldn't get on of course, but if he had smiled I probably would have smiled back. Which might have caused a problem.