I'm wearing my new pants and shirt from Tallgirl ! Sandra hemmed up my pants yesterday and all is well. They look swank and I've already had several compliments.

Tonight is a CD release party for my mom's friend, Carmen Jones, and initially my mother had planned on coming into town for it. Unfortunately, she's too sick with a migraine today to make it, which I'm afraid dulls my own excitement somewhat. Also, I'm having wicked stomach cramps and have been since last night. I don't know if it's something I ate, or what, but it hurts and I really want to lie down.

On Monday night, I took Derek to see Ladytron at the Phoenix Concert Theatre. The waiting outside in line definitely sucked as the temperature was below frigid and the wind was blowing hard making it even worse. The opening band, unanounced and hard to understand, was pretty good, but I have no idea who they were. The 'special guests' were a band called Simian and they ... well, for the first four songs they were enjoyable. The second four songs proved that they really only had four songs and a set of rotating lyrics. In other words, quite boring. Ladytron, however; was very good. They're not that exciting on stage and the music is not that deep layered synth sound I love so much, but they're highly danceable and quite cool. I did thoroughly enjoy them. I danced so hard at one point that I ripped the crotch of my jumpsuit. Oh dear.

I went to Carrie's on Tuesday and was greeted by a surprise. Tanya was there ! She'd brought Krispy Kreme doughnuts and you know what? I still think they're creepy weird. Doughnuts shouldn't melt on your tongue, it's just ... wrong. Anyway, Tanya modeled her bridesmaid gown and I got to see how it looked. Gosh, did it look good. I'm pretty excited to be getting mine all done tomorrow. Woo !

What do you do when someone you work with is being harrassed? It becomes a much trickier question when that person is working a customer service-oriented job and the person that is harrassing them is a member of the public. Yesterday, I was confronted with this very question, as I witnessed a man talking to my co-worker. None of us knew how to help, other than to distract the customer, which failed. My co-worker backed out of the situation by giving the excuse that he had to go sort the mail, but ultimately, it was not a solution.

This has been going on for sometime. The patron comes in any old time and if this particular staff member is working, he heads straight for them. My co-worker is utterly non-confrontational, and terribly polite, and it is very hard for him to say, "Please stop talking about this, it is inappropriate and I don't want to hear about it." This particular patron makes sexually inappropriate comments, singling out my co-worker to share these nasty thoughts with.

Today, I approached Richard about the situation, leaving out my co-worker's name in order to protect his involvement, especially since he did not ask me to intervene. Richard was terribly unhappy about it and phoned Human Resources to discuss what could be done in a situation like this. The answers were not terribly satisfying, but ultimately, it is the responsibility of the co-worker to come forward in order to take action. I have emailed him to suggest he follow the informal route for now, pursuing the formal action of complaint only if all else fails. It's very frustrating. I have become very protective of my co-workers and I wish that there was something more immediate that I could do.

No one deserves to be singled out. No one deserves to be harrassed or abused and no one should have to suffer harrasment. To victimise someone for no good reason is to infringe upon that person's human rights. We're better than that.