Thanksgiving already!?!

Where did this fall go?! All wrapped up in election bullshit and the fall has raced past so fast I am standing out side in 30 degree weather in shorts and a T-Shirt wondering why I thought it was a good idea to not take a vacation this year. That's an interesting idea...A vacation...I usually take at least a week once or twice a year. Sure, I rarely go places on said Vacations but then that requires, work, planning, effort, transportation, the copious spending of money and when done alone are not always that much fun. Or I am inexcusably lazy...One or the other, probably both.

Things have been a little rough since the election. In fact, moments after finishing the previous post I had come to learn, through an emergency office meeting, that our department may be phased out in the coming year. Turns out that may not entirely be true after all BUT it remains a possibility. As you can imagine, that has been no good for the morale of my office. I do love my job and I love the institution I work for but I don't love being put into another potential lay-off position particularly when you see the Illinois unemployment rate is at 7.3% and the economy is not showing signs of improvement at the moment. Other institutions are going on hiring freezes and all those who work in the consumer good industries are shitting their pants.

Will Christmas come and save America and everyone will go out and buy their usual 10 tons of useless crap this year? Or is this economic sickness more real than anyone wants to know? Only time will tell and I sure don't feel good about it. Much of the issues seem to stem from our own Americanized, debt loving, economical stupidity. Too much credit and not enough actual capital. Predatory loans, purchasing homes and cars one cannot afford. Driving around in bug, giant, stupid SUVs and burning gas at an incredible rate until the giant piece of shit craps and another ka-billion needs to be sunk into repairs, etc. Our mass ignorance and greed is finally really starting to bite our proverbial asses...How will we make it better? All the Obama-Awesomeness in the world can not magically repair this. Only we, all of us, can really fix this and I can't imagine that's gonna happen. So, we will see. Perhaps, this is more the media and not the reality and things will be fine? Who knows; but the stress and anxiety sure is real. Just seeing it first hand in my office; in just two weeks we went from happy, family like office to in-fighting and tense shithouse...almost over night. Sucks.

Sucks more for those I know who are already out on their asses. Every week another friend loses a job and there is little that can be done, not in their or my control. Sad, scary and hopefully, like most things, this to shall pass. Ugh, I wanted to go on more today but I have also been FUCKING busy lately through all of this and now have to hit the road for a fair...Just realized today that Thanksgiving is a week from today...Another year flushed by so fast I barely took a moment to notice it. Adulthood has a lot of perks but they always seem off-set by the sheer suckitude of it all...Well, at least some days.