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Everything and more

I am ashamed to admit that I have never read AL Kennedy, but now I really feel the need. I came across this link via Maud, a daily read of mine. I don’t know about you, dear reader, but are you tired of hearing about boobs? The whole thing seemed overblown the minute it happened. So some kid might have caught a glimpse of a boob. So fucking what? Aren’t there more important things happening right now?

Finished!

I may have to copy my friend/co-worker Jess and create a book page. I want to do the 50 book challenge, which should not be too hard. And since I seem to be doing these days is knitting and reading, why not devote a whole page to all this stuff. I finished David Shipler’s Working Poor today at lunch. Wow. There will be a review in NYT this week I believe, but everyone should read this book. It was eye-opening, even for someone who considers herself pretty liberal and attuned to world. Its just not fair, life, sometimes. And I don’t know what to do about it. The book doesn’t answer that question. It proposes no easy cause or solutions. I managed to slobber soup on my book as I came to the last sentence of the book, “It is time to be ashamed.” And it is hard not to be after reading this book.

Oof. It’s Monday.

My plan on waking up when the alarm chimed and being at work by 9:30 fell along the wayside this morning. I woke up at 9:10 of course, but managed to make it to work by 10:10 and even got in a shower. Have already been astounded by the sheer absurdity of the world today. I thought I would talk about Massachusetts and Gay marriage or Bush’s most recent remarks on the war in Iraq. But alas, I can’t stomach doing either right now. Peter Gomes had a lovely and succint editorial in yesterday’s Globe about gay marriage. As an disenfranchised African-American, he understands the plight of homosexuals and their right (and I do believe that they have the right) to marry. As for Bush, all I have to say is, Fuck you. Fuck your administration and fuck your constantly changing stories about Iraq. That’s not exactly a winning argument I realize. But that’s how I feel.

Whew!

Still tinkering with the new blog. Trying to get it all cool looking. But since I barely know HTML let alone CSS, its taking me awhile. I managed to make the banner into a picture and get rid of the white space. That took a half an hour. Its a work in progress. The weekend is almost over though. Got a lot done, though not as much reading as I had hoped. The Working Poor by David Shipler is brialliantly written, but thoroughly depressing. So I am avoiding reading it for long stretches. I am already depressed enough as is.