no good deed, etc.
I believe that I, like Jane Tennison, have made an error in judgment. (No, NOT the same one she made!) Several months ago I became friends with someone who is relatively new to the city, and in fact to life on her own. She's a lot younger than I am, and very sweet and a little naive. Recently I saw that she was becoming very close to someone I've known for a while, a person who is charming and charismatic and, quite frankly, someone of whose motives I'm deeply suspicious. In short, I think this person is a liar -- not necessarily a bad person, but someone whose grasp of reality seems to be tenuous at best, and who lies a GREAT.DEAL. I gave this some thought, and the last time I saw my young friend, I warned her, in the gentlest terms possible.
Oops. I get the distinct impression I shouldn't have done that. I feel like I've been getting the cold shoulder since then. Maybe it's my imagination, but I doubt it. Oh, well. I suppose she'll find out for herself soon enough -- or then again, maybe she won't. Alas, no good deed goes unpunished.
On another note, my new teaching job is so much better than my last one that I'm afraid of jinxing it by even discussing it.
Your daily Helen (and Clare, in the unlikely event that you actually remembered to check in and are reading this, the paper still hasn't come, but when it does, I WILL find your photo!):
Oops. I get the distinct impression I shouldn't have done that. I feel like I've been getting the cold shoulder since then. Maybe it's my imagination, but I doubt it. Oh, well. I suppose she'll find out for herself soon enough -- or then again, maybe she won't. Alas, no good deed goes unpunished.
On another note, my new teaching job is so much better than my last one that I'm afraid of jinxing it by even discussing it.
Your daily Helen (and Clare, in the unlikely event that you actually remembered to check in and are reading this, the paper still hasn't come, but when it does, I WILL find your photo!):