Wow. Only 2 more weeks of my 2nd trimester. Wait. Can that be right???

This really has been both the fastest and slowest 6 months of my life. Sometimes it seems like just a few days ago that I was sharing my news with family, and now, not only does everyone know, but complete strangers are on to me. Its disturbing, actually, to have such a very personal part of one's life become so very public.

Speaking of which.... I was convinced that Evil Secretary didnt know that I was knocked up and that she was just glaring at me constantly, disgusted by how I'd let myself go. I thought that this was the case primarily because I hadnt told her, and because she said NOTHING to me about it. Well, turns out I was WRONG and that she is just an evil witch (and not in a good way). Last week she asked why I looked so tired and when I replied, "I havent been sleeping comfortably for a while now" she launched into a long "when I was pregnant, here's what I went through" diatribe. Not only unhelpful, but another missed opportunity to say, "Oh, by the way, Congratulations."

Listen. I'm not the kind of person who expects people to fall all over themselves for me. Quite the contrary... I work hard to AVOID being the center of attention and I've been having lots of fun anxiety responses to unwelcome attention during this pregnancy. But I just find it odd, and vaguely unkind, to shirk basic social norms like acknowledging when someone has another person growing inside of them--especially when it is for the first time.

Oh, and Even Eviler Secretary is doing the same thing. Pretty much ignoring me. Chair has theorized that she is somehow resentful of women of child-bearing age since she is going through menopause. She has been openly hostile and actually tried to sabotage the maternity leave agreement of one of my colleagues last year--not kidding! So I guess that I'm not all that surprised that she's acting this way.

You know? Come to think of it... there are several people at work who've yet to acknowledge that I'm as big as a condo, or to acknowledge why. Could be a cultural thing--people in this part of the country are notoriously unfriendly.

Ugh. Not going to waste any more energy speculating on why the people at work are so damn strange....