Current mood:	hyper
Entry tags:	quotes

Dignity In America
"I so miss a little dignity in America." -- Boston Legal


Yesterday was such a ridiculous day for America. It made me realize how much credit I gave adults as a child. Adults leave much to be desired, I'm afraid. And America? We're nothing but a nation of high schoolers with money who can't get past those superficial arguments that seemed so damn important until you really take a look at them. It's frustrating, embarrassing and, now, destroying us. That impending doom I've sensed in the back of my head for the past ten years? That wasn't a natural part of aging or seeing the world change. It was a real harbinger of the tail spin I was witnessing yet unable to articulate fully until it became glaringly obvious what exactly was happening. What's even more vexing is that it's so damn serious that I tend to think any idiot can also see it too. Instead, when I vocalize any of these concerns, I'm labeled a 'liberal Hollywood elitist' or a 'dumb blonde bimbo' (depending upon who is condemning my views) who has no clue what is happening.

Today's heat is already well underway. It only cooled down to about 60 degrees over night. And that's what really keeps the heat wave going. It'll continue for the next three days unless we can get a marine layer or some manner of a low that will cool this coast off over night. The only benefit to these episodes of extreme weather is that I have to condense an entire day into a fistful of hours. It makes me very productive.

We're armed with an entire case of spearmint water from Metro Mint, though. And we have an exit strategy. I just can't take sitting in this place trying to work while it slowly turns into a rice cooker. It could turn out to be a wonderful thing to work very hard for six to eight hours in the morning and then take the rest of the day off to play out in the world.