Tired of Inanity

One of my colleagues at work is driving me nuts. She is dim, beyond anything I have ever come across. Dim and self-obsessed.

I have to explain big words to her. She only listens to part of conversations and instructions. She is older than me, has been here longer, but no one really seems to like her...

She obsesses about little things each day:

Monday it was her period (nonstop complaining about her female bits giving her problems...I wanted to shoot myself - she has no concept of TMI );

Tuesday I got the hear all about her make-up trials, trying to find the "right shade" of eyeshadow and lippy - she spent around £50 on trial bits and pieces at one of the make-up counters in Selfridges and I told her I couldn't see any change in what she had on afterwards, she was not best pleased;

Wednesday it was back to her female problems and what a struggle it is to get into the office and how bitterly cold it was.

Today, Thursday, I have to listen to her harping on endlessly about her sight - it's taken her TWO years to decide to sort out her failing eyesight and now she's telling all and sundry about it, constantly, repeating the same story over and over, including all her mates on the phone.

I am so tired of it already - each thing has to be discussed in the finest detail and obsessed about. I am now in the habit of not talking a lot - only responding when directly spoken to. She also whistles and sings under her breath, tapping her talon-like nails on the desk whilst talking to people on the phone.

I honestly hope that we move offices soon - which is the rumour - so that I don't have to sit near her...because I might, just might be tempted to throw a stapler at her head.

Other than that, I love my new job.

I've googled the word "inane" and found this website which is quite amusing, really.

in·an·ity (in an′i tē)

noun the quality or condition of being inane; specif.,
emptiness

lack of sense or meaning; silliness

something inane; senseless or silly act, remark, etc.Etymology: Fr inanité <>

There are also 203 synonyms listed in the Moby thesaurus for inanity:

absence of mind, absurdity, agnosticism, aimlessness, aridity,
asininity, barrenness, battiness, big deal, blank, blank mind,
blankmindedness, blankness, bloodlessness, bootlessness,
brainlessness, buffoonery, callowness, calm of mind,
characterlessness, clean slate, clownishness, colorlessness,
counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, crackpottedness,
crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dead letter, deadness,
desipience, dismalness, dottiness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness,
dullness, dustiness, eccentricity, effeteness, emptiness,
emptiness of mind, empty sound, empty space, empty-headedness,
etiolation, failure, fallow mind, fatuity, fatuousness,
fecklessness, flatness, flavorlessness, flimsiness, folly, foolery,
foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness,
fruitlessness, futility, giddiness, goofiness, greenhornism,
greenness, heaviness, hiatus of learning, hollowness, idiocy,
idleness, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, imbecility,
impotence, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness,
inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexcitability,
inexperience, innocence, insanity, insignificance, insipidity,
insipidness, invalidity, jejuneness, jejunity, know-nothingism,
knowledge-gap, lack of information, leadenness, levity,
lifelessness, lightness, lowness of spirit, lunacy, madness,
meaninglessness, mental blankness, mental void, mere noise,
mildness, mindlessness, nescience, niaiserie, nirvana, noise,
nonsensicality, nothing, nothingness, nugacity, nullity, nuttiness,
oblivion, obscurantism, otiosity, paleness, pallor, passivity,
phatic communion, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness,
preposterousness, profitlessness, purposelessness, queerness,
quietism, rat race, rawness, saplessness, sappiness, savorlessness,
screwiness, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, simpleness,
simplicity, slenderness, slightness, slowness, solemnity,
spiritlessness, staleness, sterility, stiffness, stodginess,
stuffiness, stupidity, superficiality, tabula rasa, tastelessness,
tediousness, the absurd, thinness, thoughtfreeness,
thoughtlessness, tranquillity, triflingness, triteness, triviality,
trivialness, unacquaintance, unfamiliarity, unintelligence,
uninterestingness, unknowing, unknowingness, unliveliness,
unmeaningness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,
unripeness, unsavoriness, unsignificancy, uselessness, vacancy,
vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity,
vapidness, vicious circle, void, wackiness, weakness, weirdness,
wishy-washiness, witlessness, woodenness, worthlessness, zaniness,
zanyism.