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[V-Adore]

Today I'm gonna recuperate from the week, which was good but tiring, and yesterday, where I had a wakefulness window of about six hours between waking up and evening-nap-that-went-too-long. This having-a-job thing is taking a lot out of me.

[wombat]

You need the Doonesbury cartoon I have on my wall - but unfortunately one has to pay for access to their online archives so  I can't email it to you. How uncivilized. It's one where Zonker gets a real job and is describing to that reverend guy what it feels like to go to work every morning:
Zonker: It feels..I dunno...hard to describe...
Rev:  Good?
Zonker: No, no, more like mono.

[littlefallsmets]

Having a job is terrible, even when the job itself is not terrible, I'm with ya.

We were not designed for all this meaningless toil, we were meant to run in fields and dream.

We were meant to gather what we needed day-by-day week-by-week and otherwise just sing.

It is not popular for an adult to admit this because it goes against the entire mythology of the Protestant Work Ethic that this twisted little country was built upon... God shows His love of you to the community by making you rich so work your ass off and lie and cheat and steal so that your neighbors will think that God loves you more than them... but it is true.

In our innocence and our arrogance... with a good dollop of cheating mixed in... we have created a mechanism within which sane and happy people staying both sane and happy is nearly impossible and the device speeds up a little bit more every coupla years.

Evolution does not work fast enough to adapt us to this sort of thing. In six or seven thousand years, we have built things that it would take us maybe a million years to properly adapt to and it is driving us mad.

I am probably exaggerating a bit but the basic idea, I really believe.

I mean, okay, it is my one day off and my girlfriend woke me up at seven in the morning by punching me right in the ear because she was fighting someone in a nightmare so I am as fuckin' ornery as Babe Ruth in a chastity belt but... holy Christ, I think the basic idea is sound.

[theinevitable]

today, I'm gonna realize that yesterday was the most wasted day of my life, possibly. Watched 2 Bourne Identity movies, watched Star Wars episode 3, only left my dorm building once, moped for a while about something stupid, napped. Didn't read, didn't start my short story that's due thursday. Played some good Rock Band, though.

[littlefallsmets]

...I'm gonna gripe to fuckall about waking up with a boxed ear, talk to some people on the phone, eat some Cinnamon Brown Sugar Toaster Strudels (the greatest guilty-pleasure food of all time, people) and then probably listen to Pink Floyd and work on the book.

I'm polishing up Chapter 29 currently. I am still battling this beast, goddamnit. Once I have polished up the rough drafts of 29 and 30, I am two-thirds done with the first draft.

[wombat]

....rewrite two paragraphs for an hour. Kind of stupid, because I get paid the same either way.

Of course, I don't have a full time job and so have plenty of time to needlessly rewrite paragraphs and then devote the rest of the day to singing... which turns out is a little more boring than in LFM's fantasy, at least for me, now that I am not sick all the damn time. And now that it's too cold at this time of year to run in the fields in this part of the country.

But a full time job is too much - I do remember that. What we need are four day workweeks, or six hour workdays. That would be plenty.

[littlefallsmets]

I am all about the thirty-two hour work-week.

The whole world would make a lot more sense with that.

[theinevitable]

...meet our very own AugustWest (Frank). He was a nice guy, I showed him around campus and the radio station. Unfortunately I lose the prize because we did not take a picture. I brought my camera and forgot about it, to be honest. I was a little anxious about meeting someone From the Internet, but it ends up he's a real person From the World, as well. I felt silly because I was being on the lookout for him, and of course as soon as I zoned out and turned on my iPod he popped up. We ran into my ex-girlfriend, which was funny, as I have not seen her all semester.

[Arachno-capitalist]

We ran into my ex-girlfriend, which was funny, as I have not seen her all semester.

"I ran into dan today. He was walking around with this older man he met on the internet..."

[theinevitable]

I mean, I just said "oh, hi" and she waved and looked awkward, which is what she does every time I see her.

[jaydub]

take my 5 (almost 6-) year old daughter to Chuck E. Cheese Pizzatime Theater to celebrate one of her accomplishments.  You know you've reached a place of maturity in life where being seen in/near one of the single uncoolest establishments in the history of mankind has no effect on your desire to go there and make your little one happy.

[littlefallsmets]

...I dunno, I still wanna go to Chuck's and just... y'know.

Rent it for a night, kick out all the kids and enjoy the place with adults and adult-beverages.

Eat mediocre pizza, play pinball and skeeball and watch animatronic concerts drunk.

This might have something to do with my being told I was too big for the ballcrawl at seven, when you are definitely supposed to be in the ballcrawl, and wanting that fuckin' ballcrawl time back.

[Doc]

..wake up and for the first time in ages have to be the first one out of bed because the Lady finally quite her shitty-ass job and is starting uni next monday (yay!). The main effect this has had on my life is that I decided to get up much later than usual because curling up till late next to your darling on a weekday morning is something to be treasured, yo.

[jaydub]

because curling up till late next to your darling on a weekday morning is something to be treasured, yo.

QFMFT

[Arachno-capitalist]

Rugby has taken all of the skin on or around my knee and a large portion of my back is solid muscle pain so Ill be drinking wine and popping tylenol like jujubes.
Also writing several papers.