What I'm thinking about today

What I’m thinking about right now

-I have GOT to make sure I get into my bed, put the novel down and go to sleep at a decent time. I am SO tired on weekdays, simply because I don’t want to go to sleep until 6 hours before I have to be up to go to work.

-The training manual is huge. I wonder if it counts as a novel. It’s got more words than last year’s NaNo novel already.

-My friend Thommy just sent me the first 10 pages or so of the new movie he wants to shoot. It’s a cool idea, but it seems more like a skit than a movie…

-Right now. As I type. My Tivo is filling. I should get a 100 hour Tivo by the time the fall season starts. *sigh*

-I can’t say that the Cobra Starship album is any good, but I like listening to it. In fact, it’s not very good at all. Let me play it again, hold on.

-I read an article in the New Yorker about the French election and it struck me that the US is rapidly becoming just like France. Maybe the reason the right wing hates France so much is the Freudian principle of projection. They see all the things they hate about themselves (stubborn belief that their culture is superior and all others are garbage, failed colonization, poor long-term planning, contempt for international bodies and what the rest of the world thinks, fixation on the past and no thought to the future).

-I have never watched more than a couple of minutes of American Idol, but I feel bad for Sanjaya. He’s a 17 year old kid who is thrust on the national stage, told he’s amazingly untalented and that he is the downfall of An American Institution. If I was in that situation at 17, I’d end up in the hospital mumbling into a pillow and clutching a sock monkey.

-I still don’t want to write or say anything at length about the Virginia Tech shooting. I will point out that we have discovered the shooter was severely mentally ill, there were TONS of signs that he was severely mentally ill, and our system did nothing for him. And for the people who say that these kinds of killings are “Brand New”, thanks for proving to me that we have forgotten our history. Do some research…spree killings have been around as long as weapons have been around.

-One of my friends is going through a severe bout of bi-polar, so bad that I am worried that they may never come out of it. It’s painful to see them struggle to have rational thoughts when I know they are an intelligent, creative person under the mania.