We all know a martyr person:

• Anything that goes wrong in their day means the universe is against them,
• They always misinterpret events in a way that makes them the injured party,
• Someone or everyone at their workplace is out to get them,
• Mundane tasks are too mundane to get done because they're too busy being persecuted,
• Choices they've made in life were never wrong on their part, the world just didn't let them work out in their favor.

How do you deal with a martyr person?

Two of my most (only?) loyal readers pushed me to put comments on the site so here you go. Check the [more] links for any item on my blog and you'll see a little comments form for you fine folks to use.

I had quite a surprising encounter while walking to lunch today. As we were crossing the street near the post office I made eye contact with a woman crossing towards us. We both looked at each other realizing that we knew each other and just waiting for our brain's to process the information. I somewhat hesitantly ventured a "Hello, Mrs. Kulesher. I was in your journalism classes back at TJ." She asked me my name but I'm not sure she really placed me, of course given the number of kids she's known over the years its expected. Having acknowledged that we knew each other we went on with our day

Back in high school, journalism was one of those electives you took because it wasn't too demanding. However, here I am ten years later still using things I learned during class or in between NetTrek games when we'd write stories. It made me a slightly better writer by teaching me to:

• ...write leads to stories
• ...critique headlines.
• ...structure writing to put the more important stuff near the beginning.