Oh man; as I mentioned previously I neglected to take myself a vacation this year so now that the stoopid holidays have crashed our winter party I am finally taking a few days on top of our regularly scheduled baby Jesus time to have a whole TWO WEEK VACATION just like when I was 10. This is reason number six thousand and ten on the list of why I like working in education so damn much. The fun part about "two weeks" is every time I think of it I think of this:
And then I think of this:
And for the rest of the day I will telling all my co-workers to either get their asses to Mars or that "Quaid needs to open your mind to me."
I have issues.
I also hope to do some holiday shopping somewhere between today, the "blizzards," and Christmas...SO...I have 4.5 days left to shop! Lord how I miss giving a shit about the commercial aspects of this time of year when buying things was fun and stuff. No matter, with the dreary economic, environmental forecasts as dictated by our "media" maybe this will be the last Christmas. Ok, like my last post (bitching about the holidays and the weather), I may as well start crabbing about why the sky is always so damn blue when it's not cloudy as complain about the media BUT in this day and age it is becoming nigh impossible to trust or believe anything anyone says on TeeVee, the internets, the papers or next fucking door anymore. It's all hyperbole, conjecture and exaggeration especially where this economic crisis is concerned. I KNOW that is actually happening as I am hearing from laid off people every day in my (fortunate to still have) job; but how serious do I need to take this crisis? What do I do aside from feeling depressed?
Living in my own, private universe I have lots and lots of things to be depressed about. I tend to spend a lot of time watching documentaries and reading books about things that when taken together can really make me wonder if we are just FUBAR as a species and perhaps I should just switch off the news, have a drink and wait for the end. Then again, I have been known for my glass mostly empty philosophy so I also spend time dialing down my own, self-imposed fear rhetoric and remind myself that shit may be getting...uh, icky...but society isn't simply going to collapse over night!? Right? I don't really want to go into a whole lot more detail in this post as I intended to write a lighter post but I have a lot of worry about things such as "Peak Oil" (debunkment, just in case because when I first read about this I shit my pants) and Climate Change, alternate energy, over-fishing of the oceans, over populating the planet and this need to see that we as a country, culture and community are actually looking ahead to, you know, solve these problems and not just pay lip service to them. Which is about all that has been done thus far. I want to be all hopeful and believe that we will work through these issues as a civilization and, though things will get relatively shittier no matter what we do at this point, it wont become this:
"Just walk away, Just walk away from the gas..."
Extreme? Of course, it wont actually be this much fun if we run out of gas and everything, as we know it, comes to a halt...It'll be more like:
YAAAAY! Video blogging is FUN!!!
So, only time will really tell if we are in a tough time that will pass quickly-ish or if we are actually all standing on the precipice of a new dark age of some kind. I am hoping for the quickly passing thing as I am too out of shape and lazy to deal with having to forage for food and learn to farm and shit like that. Though IF things come crumbling all the rest of the way down then it will probably include lots of confused panicking in the streets with overturned cars and fire and looting and random gunfire! That'll be as close as we will ever get to a Zombie attack! So, at least we have that going for us?
YEAH!
MERRY NEW YEAR!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Busy, lazy, busy being lazy...
Yeah, things have perked up a little on the job front as the apparent possibility of our office being dissolved have been "back burner-ed" until next year so the end of times has been postponed temporarily. That hasn't made things less busy but has made things less pissy.
That said, it has been extremely difficult to find time/motivation to do some bloggin. Not that I have nothing to say it's just when I feel like sayin' it I am either bogged down in the office or it's late at night and I don't have all the extra energy required to push the computing buttons in the correct order so as a blog is posted on the interwebs. So, my usual high octane mix of occupied buz-i-ness multiplied by chronic laziness has equaled weeks of no posting. So, instead of a quality post you get this crap.
Anyone else having trouble adapting to the cold? I don't know why I even bother wasting the words on this topic but it seems like every year winter comes faster and rather than acting like I am so completely used to it having lived in this region my entire life...I find myself almost unable to deal these days. Hibernation sets in and I simply avoid going outside as much as humanly possible. Somewhere on this life journey I skipped out on "the outdoors man who loves doing winter activities" option and instead went for, "Hey, let's stay in and eat Suzy-Q's and watch all of the Lord of the Rings again!" It's not as if December hits and the thermometer drops to zero and I am all, "What the fuck is this shit?!?! IT'S FALLING RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY!?!?!" It just seems the older I get the more life is looking forward to that break between winters when it is nice out for a minute. I'd move somewhere warmer I suppose if all I had to do was close my eyes and open them elsewhere...along with all my stuff, and maybe some of my friends.
The other thing I am bored of...Christmas. Don't hate it and wouldn't say I am anti-Christmas as I like the time off very much and I do love playing Santa (annual gig is coming up 12/12!). But man, I am sick of the routine, the plastic, the charade, and most of all...I am so very tired of Christmas music. It never changes and it is dull. DULL! DULL!! DULL!!! My receptionist has it playing as I sit on my lunch break tapping this out, she quite likes this holiday stuff, and she is humming along with it and I keep wondering why after all these years she isn't fucking exhausted with the Little Drummer Boy yet?!?! Fuck that little fucker and his fucking drum! Same songs, same styles, same dreary "Holiday cheer" over and over and over and over again. They never add in any new ones and whenever they try they simply suck. Beyond suck; I think the last "new" Christmas song I ever liked was 'Christmas in Hollis' by Run D.M.C. and THAT shit is already like 25 years old?!?!
Then, there's the decor. I am someone who grew up loving the decorating part, the trees, the lights, the blinking shit and these days, what with all our fancy technology, Christmas decorations (and Halloween for that matter) are near Nasa levels of technology. Shit, if you brought an animatronic Santa and a set of fiber-optic lights into the early '80's and showed my 10 year old ass I would have shit holly in my pants. But now, and this may simply be a product of "growing up," I find it all so empty and meaningless. Whether your intention is the Celebration of JEE-ZUS or because you love your family and friends what's a better way to say it then with pure, completely commercialized, insincerity...Made from Chinese plastic that lights the fuck up and sings "Grandmother Got Run Over By a Reindeer until she was fucking dead" at 760 decibels and can be seen and heard from space. Because if you love somebody you must prove it by wasting a significant portion of your income on fucking plastic junk. Regular gifts included.
I recently spent a little time in an American Sales store in my hometown and at first that old, somewhat nostalgic, holiday feeling came over me as I walked into the Christmas decoration section and saw all the old and new fangled Christmas lights and memories abounded and I momentarily thought maybe this year I will decorate my apartment with some lights?!?! Then, after a few minutes, the idea died and I started feeling that sort of commercial manipulation or seasonal exploitation that just irks me. It irks me we live in an economy that is grown dependent on the Holiday season to survive. Everything in retail is driven towards this time of year, the fourth quarter...The black Fridays and Mondays and super-special Internet sales and promotional sales and exclusive holiday gift packs. And all the lame shit that is packed into store shelves so hard that I almost feel embarrassed about buying and giving to anyone. You see those kind of items a lot in stores? Combo packs of DVDs, or large cardboard cutout posters of Batman, or special "You're the best Golfer" wall tapestries...Know what I mean? The kind of shit you only see this time of year that says, "I think you are worth something so I bought you this meaningless, useless item to forever live in the dark reaches of your fucking closet..." Or whatever...Bitching about this stuff is right up there with bitching about the weather...In the end it's just dumb bitching.
There's more to the above I could go on about but my lunch break has run out...All the same...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
MY BLOG READERS ARE THE MOST!!!
*hands you a melted lump of plastic that at one time was shaped in the form of some thing, idea, or pop cultural icon that personally pleased you at some point in your life.*
That said, it has been extremely difficult to find time/motivation to do some bloggin. Not that I have nothing to say it's just when I feel like sayin' it I am either bogged down in the office or it's late at night and I don't have all the extra energy required to push the computing buttons in the correct order so as a blog is posted on the interwebs. So, my usual high octane mix of occupied buz-i-ness multiplied by chronic laziness has equaled weeks of no posting. So, instead of a quality post you get this crap.
Anyone else having trouble adapting to the cold? I don't know why I even bother wasting the words on this topic but it seems like every year winter comes faster and rather than acting like I am so completely used to it having lived in this region my entire life...I find myself almost unable to deal these days. Hibernation sets in and I simply avoid going outside as much as humanly possible. Somewhere on this life journey I skipped out on "the outdoors man who loves doing winter activities" option and instead went for, "Hey, let's stay in and eat Suzy-Q's and watch all of the Lord of the Rings again!" It's not as if December hits and the thermometer drops to zero and I am all, "What the fuck is this shit?!?! IT'S FALLING RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY!?!?!" It just seems the older I get the more life is looking forward to that break between winters when it is nice out for a minute. I'd move somewhere warmer I suppose if all I had to do was close my eyes and open them elsewhere...along with all my stuff, and maybe some of my friends.
The other thing I am bored of...Christmas. Don't hate it and wouldn't say I am anti-Christmas as I like the time off very much and I do love playing Santa (annual gig is coming up 12/12!). But man, I am sick of the routine, the plastic, the charade, and most of all...I am so very tired of Christmas music. It never changes and it is dull. DULL! DULL!! DULL!!! My receptionist has it playing as I sit on my lunch break tapping this out, she quite likes this holiday stuff, and she is humming along with it and I keep wondering why after all these years she isn't fucking exhausted with the Little Drummer Boy yet?!?! Fuck that little fucker and his fucking drum! Same songs, same styles, same dreary "Holiday cheer" over and over and over and over again. They never add in any new ones and whenever they try they simply suck. Beyond suck; I think the last "new" Christmas song I ever liked was 'Christmas in Hollis' by Run D.M.C. and THAT shit is already like 25 years old?!?!
Then, there's the decor. I am someone who grew up loving the decorating part, the trees, the lights, the blinking shit and these days, what with all our fancy technology, Christmas decorations (and Halloween for that matter) are near Nasa levels of technology. Shit, if you brought an animatronic Santa and a set of fiber-optic lights into the early '80's and showed my 10 year old ass I would have shit holly in my pants. But now, and this may simply be a product of "growing up," I find it all so empty and meaningless. Whether your intention is the Celebration of JEE-ZUS or because you love your family and friends what's a better way to say it then with pure, completely commercialized, insincerity...Made from Chinese plastic that lights the fuck up and sings "Grandmother Got Run Over By a Reindeer until she was fucking dead" at 760 decibels and can be seen and heard from space. Because if you love somebody you must prove it by wasting a significant portion of your income on fucking plastic junk. Regular gifts included.
I recently spent a little time in an American Sales store in my hometown and at first that old, somewhat nostalgic, holiday feeling came over me as I walked into the Christmas decoration section and saw all the old and new fangled Christmas lights and memories abounded and I momentarily thought maybe this year I will decorate my apartment with some lights?!?! Then, after a few minutes, the idea died and I started feeling that sort of commercial manipulation or seasonal exploitation that just irks me. It irks me we live in an economy that is grown dependent on the Holiday season to survive. Everything in retail is driven towards this time of year, the fourth quarter...The black Fridays and Mondays and super-special Internet sales and promotional sales and exclusive holiday gift packs. And all the lame shit that is packed into store shelves so hard that I almost feel embarrassed about buying and giving to anyone. You see those kind of items a lot in stores? Combo packs of DVDs, or large cardboard cutout posters of Batman, or special "You're the best Golfer" wall tapestries...Know what I mean? The kind of shit you only see this time of year that says, "I think you are worth something so I bought you this meaningless, useless item to forever live in the dark reaches of your fucking closet..." Or whatever...Bitching about this stuff is right up there with bitching about the weather...In the end it's just dumb bitching.
There's more to the above I could go on about but my lunch break has run out...All the same...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
MY BLOG READERS ARE THE MOST!!!
*hands you a melted lump of plastic that at one time was shaped in the form of some thing, idea, or pop cultural icon that personally pleased you at some point in your life.*
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