I’m allergic to trees, you know, and I just put one in my family room. But it sure smells good, and its nice in here — especially since I get to listen to John Denver and The Muppets singing christmas songs.
Painful, but worth it.
Before me in the checkout at Meijer: a woman with 2 cases of wine, 6 fifths of booze, a couple of cases of beer, a giganto bottle of aspirin and an extra-large bottle of Tums.
And New Year’s Eve isn’t for a week yet. Perhaps she’s planning on celebrating the solstice?
The President said:
The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties.
He’s right. So why don’t I feel like he’s doing just that?
Plagioclase and I went to a christmas party last evening. It was full of people I didn’t know, people who said things like “so, what do you do?”
I hemmed and hawed…. “I, uh, slack.” I mean, nobody wants to (or needs to, really) hear about me taking care of my folks and having a breakdown and my piddly volunteer stuff, now do they? I was unprepared for fresh society. I mean, my friends know a bit about what’s up with me lately, so we talk about other things. So I just said that I had been taking care of my folks for a while and changed the subject.
But then I had people tell me that they wished they could take time off, especially when their work is going badly…. but they’d probably get bored. What I wanted to say, but didn’t, was: Well, gee, if you can’t keep yourself entertained at your own house, then perhaps you should stay in that dead-end job.
I bake cookies. I don’t do housework any more than I did when I was working full-time (according to some accounts, I’m doing less). I follow the news. My interest in the world didn’t disappear just because I stopped commuting.
I understand this is all normal ice-breaking stuff. I’d never met most of the people there, so they needed to find some way to fit me into their schema (if only for the space of a conversation). I just wish it wasn’t always the same struggle. Perhaps next time I’ll tell ‘em I work for an unnamed government agency, and how did you spell your name again?
(Despite all this, I did have a good time. Really!)
Why am I humming the song for Script Ohio?