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Monday, April 25, 2005
Weltschmertz
I woke up today about an hour earlier than I wanted to. My alarm wasn't set, but I could hear my little brother banging around in the bathroom (which is inconveniently nestled between the two upstairs bedrooms) and once I'm up, I'm up.
On a scale of 1 to 10, my motivation today is about... 0. I just want to crawl into bed, read a book or sleep, and ignore the world until it goes away or learns to behave itself a bit better. The news is chock full of unpleasantness, as usual. The right-wing assholes are up to their usual hijinks. People all over the world are killing one another because of religious bullshit, and so on and so forth.
What I don't understand, and what I've never been able to grasp, is why people continually do the wrong thing when they could so easily do the right thing. Instead of people who want nothing more than to amass wealth and power, why aren't there more people who want to help people and be nice to their fellow man? I'm not saying that every person should be Mother Teresa, but would it be so hard for them to be decent?
Despite my lack of motivation, there is much to do today. Need to relocate my home office from the upstairs bedroom to the basement. I'm hoping this will be of benefit in two ways -- one, during the summer, the upstairs rooms get unpleasantly hot without benefit of air conditioning. I hope to avoid running the AC unless absolutely necessary, and the basement stays much cooler than the living room or upstairs.
Two, I need to be able to spread out a bit more, have a little additional room for all the computers and so forth. I am hoping that having a little more room will let me be more organized, and therefore more productive.
I'm going to go back to work now, and try to get some work done so I can blow off by 5 PM and do something -- anything -- fun.
On a scale of 1 to 10, my motivation today is about... 0. I just want to crawl into bed, read a book or sleep, and ignore the world until it goes away or learns to behave itself a bit better. The news is chock full of unpleasantness, as usual. The right-wing assholes are up to their usual hijinks. People all over the world are killing one another because of religious bullshit, and so on and so forth.
What I don't understand, and what I've never been able to grasp, is why people continually do the wrong thing when they could so easily do the right thing. Instead of people who want nothing more than to amass wealth and power, why aren't there more people who want to help people and be nice to their fellow man? I'm not saying that every person should be Mother Teresa, but would it be so hard for them to be decent?
Despite my lack of motivation, there is much to do today. Need to relocate my home office from the upstairs bedroom to the basement. I'm hoping this will be of benefit in two ways -- one, during the summer, the upstairs rooms get unpleasantly hot without benefit of air conditioning. I hope to avoid running the AC unless absolutely necessary, and the basement stays much cooler than the living room or upstairs.
Two, I need to be able to spread out a bit more, have a little additional room for all the computers and so forth. I am hoping that having a little more room will let me be more organized, and therefore more productive.
I'm going to go back to work now, and try to get some work done so I can blow off by 5 PM and do something -- anything -- fun.
Posted by: Oz Kern / 8:52 AM 
