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!
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