Light Bloggery This Week
I’ve been a bit remiss on blogging this week. I have bluegrass festivals coming up, my girl is back in town, and I have Sam time coming up as well. Also, we’re in the crunch at work as far as grants are concerned: for those of you that don’t know, that’s how I pay my bills and child support, through grantwriting. You’ll notice I don’t write “how I make a living”, because believe you me after the bills are paid, I’m not so much “living” as “existing”.
If I sound a bit puckish, it’s because I AM a bit puckish. Or to be clearer, I’m overwhelmed at work and in life, and it puts me into a really bad mood. My girl is worried about me, but of course whenever anyone brings up that I seem tense, it just makes me that much more irritated. Sorry, sweets.
So I have too much to do at work; not enough money to make ends meet; the stress of deciding whether or not to sell my house, and if so where to go; let’s not get into my relationship with my son; and something else that I can’t remember (like I said, there’s a lot going on).
In Nicholas Baker’s The Fermata, protagonist Arno Strine has discovered that he can stop time. While in “the Fold”, as he refers to this frozen period, he amuses himself by undressing random women and fondling them.
I would do no such thing. Rather, I would leave time frozen for a month or more, enjoying the silence, drinking mai-tais, and reading a lot. I would go to the beach and take a dip in the silent seas, with no little brats pissing around me, no radios turned up to 11 blasting crappy hip-hop.
I would begin robbing Walmarts, Home Depots, and other coporations. I wouldn’t clean them out wholesale, but would steal just enough to pay off my own past-due bills. I would drive to Washignton DC, ignoring the speed limits and tolls, and would write, in permanent black magic marker, “I am a quisling and an asshole” on Joe Lieberman’s forehead. I would manipulate Senator Rick Santorum’s genitals, putting them in the mouth of a cocker spaniel. Senator “man-on-dog” and all that.
But mostly, I would take a long long long vacation.
Anyway, please pardon the lack of bloggery.
3 Responses to “Light Bloggery This Week”
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August 24th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Dude, LIGHT bloggery? I count SEVENTEEN freakin posts in the last seven days, and some monsters among them. That’s not to mention replies to comments and no doubt reading/commenting on other blogs. All that AND you work a job? I’d be worried about you if you WEREN’T overwhelmed. Take it easy on my friend Brendan, there.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:39 am
I don’t count cut-n-pastes like the Dan Savage column or a simple “wow” when pasting youtube videos of Deicide to be true entries.
That said, I guess it’s all relative.
August 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
yeah well you’re more functional than me.