politics

so, there's an election going on today. that's all very exciting. this year, for the first time since i've been able to, i won't be voting. rather than a overdose of voter apathy it's really because right now, as far as the electoral register goes, i don't exist. i guess i chose the wrong time to move if i wanted to get involved in the whole democratic process. having said that though, i don't really think i'd know who to vote for. i don't think i could ever vote tory, there's no way i could vote labour and let mister blair think his arrogant administration they can get away with it, and lib deb, well, apart from that fact if they got into power they'd not have a clue what to do, i don't think i could bring myself to vote for someone who called his son donald. i guess perhaps i could have turned up and drawn a comedy cock all over the ballot, just to register the fact i care but aren't keen on any of the options. still, electorial limbo means i'm outta the democratic process this time around. anyway, more pressing at the moment than the comings and goings in westminster are the office politics where i work. now, i've got myself a new job, in the same company but a different department. i was never happy about the prospect of certain people higher up the food chain not relishing the opportunity to screw someone over in order to avoid having to readvertise my old position. well, it turns out my suspicions were pretty close to the mark, cos rumour has it that if i'd have gone through certain managerial channels when applying for the new position, they would have headed me off at the pass and stopped me getting it. as it is, once they found out that i'd been offered it, i think they were planning on making it difficult for me to move. althought thankfully they seem to have realised i'm not the sort of person that would have sat back and let them screw me over like that. as a result, my notice period has been extended and it seems a lot as if i'm a pawn in the middle of an overly elaborate and complicated argument between different departments and levels of management. if it wasn't for the fact i'd got the contract in the post and signed the day before all this kicked off i'd be starting to worry. but the fact is, i'm still moving, the exact date of the move doesn't matter too much. and they way things are at the moment the sooner i'm out of my current department and in the art studio the better, although not for my current colleagues, cos i have a sneaking suspicion that the pursestrings'll be tightened right behind me and my seat's gonna remain empty for a while. it's all fun and games.