Monday, November 17, 2003

I was just thinking this morning how ironic that we complain, when we pay taxes (I just shipped off my first withholding check to the IRS.), many business people are outraged that their dollars are going to support welfare mothers and other slackers. I am outraged because my tax dollars are going to support a government that wages war against the poor of other nations sacrificing the lives of our own poor. But this is the perfect capitalist welfare state - we have enlisted the economically marginalized in our own grand army, so we simultaneously pour our government riches into the pockets of the few in the military industrial complex, while making sure the poor do not object by hiring them into our own "people's" army. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Waking up this morning early, despite fairly little sleep, my body argued with me, because the body would have liked to stay in bed, as the body frequently does. That's what won the argument for me, telling the body that we would stay in bed all the time if the body made the decision. The body responded in the affirmative, as if that were a completely rational desirable state. 9:00:23 AM

I was just thinking that if I ever organize all of my random thoughts into some cohesive whole, I would call the book I Was Just Thinking. Archer once said that he thought there might be some universal truth hidden in all of my random jottings, on everything from toilet paper to candy wrappers. I think the entire most valuable take away from the entire Elizabeth affair is the ability to unburden myself. I was trying to figure out when I'd set aside time to go through the office closet to figure out what goes and what stays, especially the closet floor, which I haven't seen since I moved in. I realized that the fact that I have no idea what is even on the closet floor pretty much guarantees that I just take a trash bag and/or recycling bin and throw it all away. 12:25:14 AM