Anger

Have you ever been through a really angry phase in your life? Are you going through one currently?

I remember when I had this really bad job when I was working in Los Angeles last year and boy, I was going through such hell. My boss was a TOTAL AND COMPLETE ASSHOLE and she completely took advantage of me and everyone else in the office. I worked 70 hours a week, was made to feel as though it wasn’t enough work that I was accomplishing, and when you do the math on my salary (no overtime) with the hours I put in, was making less than a McDonald’s worker.  I wasn’t working a minimum wage job–I was working at a non-profit based out of BEVERLY HILLS and my commitment to the cause would have been questioned if I didn’t work late enough, hard enough…

It was such a nightmare and the only reason I knew that I was going through this angry phase was that in retrospect, I would slap and beat up random people in the streets when I was drunk. I remember crossing the street and just slapping the face of this innocent guy who was walking passed me in the opposite direction. I remember throwing my hand bag in the direction of these guys sitting at the couch in the Abbey bar in West Hollywood, throwin it so fast, like it was a baseball…

It’s weird that my drunken behavior sheds light into my very essence the core attitudes and emotional phases that I go through. That my real emotions are so hidden from even myself that it takes a date with Sam Adams to bring it out.

Oh, counseling… I just can’t wait to see a shrink.

4 Responses to “Anger”

  1. Joe Says:

    Wow! I couldn’t have said this better. I have had similar experiences. On the surface I was as happy as can be and everyone just thought my life was rosey.

    But I obviously had some issues also, because it seemed like every time I got really drunk I did something totally out of character.

    I finally ended up in detox one night after getting into a fight with some unknown middle-aged man for reasons that escaped me seconds after we threw fists.

    Let’s just say I don’t drink too much hard liquor any more.

    Question for ya:
    Have you ever wondered if there was another way, besidess professional counseling, to get things off your chest. Like a friend who acted like a shrink? I just think that the healing part is just letting everything out and doesn’t neccessarily have to be directed at a professional.

  2. Shabby Sheik Says:

    Bellicose Debbie: Wait,wait a second here.Im posting this on the wrong entry, but im afraid it will get lost in the confusion

    First).I posted my comment on your “men vs. women” Rant, but i failed to proofread or spell check.After seeing that, I corrected the errors and Re-posted a second one. I then sent you a message saying to erase the mistake-ridden comment and leave the corrected one.
    But what did you do?You erased the good one and left the bad one.
    MISTAKE?
    ??

    Second.)You claim:”although I hate his pictures degrading women on his profile”
    Just the women?
    Did you mind that I “degrade” men in my pics also? Myself? How ’bout
    Black people? Gays?
    You will prolly lecture me next on what I find “Funny” other people find “Offensive” or”degrading”
    Maybe im an asshole but
    I find humor in degrading, offensive raciest, sexist, non PC material.
    Example:What do you get when you cross a Mexican with a chinaman?
    A car thief who cant drive!
    Now if you where a wetback or a Chinese you could be really offended by that, or one could find it slightly funny.
    Im not a racist but I can enjoy racist jokes and pics.Some humor is off limits?
    Im not a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from my own or have a belief in superiority based on race gender or religion.
    I like dark humor.
    sorry.
    U r still the flea bomb
    ________________________
    Da chauvinist bigot
    -Geoffrey-
    (P.S. if U find any disturbing yet somehow humorous pics in your travels,I’ll take’em)

  3. Andrew Says:

    Debbie…your blog is actually being read by people. Congratulations.

    BTW, how do things stand with your West Virginia guy? Readers demand to know! :)

  4. oRen Says:

    i was jz looking around the blogs n i came acrozs urs.. n got interestd in ur title ‘anger’..

    Give him no breath, but now
    Make boot of his distraction: never anger
    Made good guard for itself.
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Maecenas at IV,

    Anger’s my meat. I sup upon myself,
    And so shall starve with feeding.
    - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Volumnia at IV, ii)

    Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
    - Daniel Webster :)

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