There is a girl at work I can’t stand. I absolutely loathe her. For a variety of reasons, she gets under my skin. I realize that I can’t change her and my best course of action everyday is just to ignore her, but for some reason, I can’t. I can’t figure out why I can’t just mind my own business, try to pretend she’s not there, do whatever it takes to get through the day without being angry and frustrated. I realized what a big problem this was yesterday when just the thought of her impending arrival time was starting to make me anxious and sick to my stomach. I had forgotten my headphones and ipod and knew tuning her out was going to be impossible. She’s a huge drama queen (to the point of distracting others trying to work) and management does nothing about her. This is when I miss having the file room to retreat to. It used to be my coping mechanism. If she got to be too much to deal with, I’d go file stuff to remove myself from the equation.