Before the Debate

I saw this article yesterday. Bush's hometown paper endorses Kerry. I've been reading various books and articles about 9/11, Bush, the Israel-Palestine conflict, etc. that are just depressing the hell out of me. I also read this (look for the 9/29 post titled "WSJ reporter Fassihi's e-mail to friends," which is an email from a Wall Street Journal reporter about the war in Iraq (seen on Pamie). Anyway, I can't think too much about the war, Bush, or terrorism without wanting to take a nap, so I'll change the subject.

I love my new job. But after having most of the summer off, I'm having a little bit of trouble getting back into the swing of a full-time job. I mean this only in the scheduling sense. I'm tired and having a hard time doing all the things I want to do in the day (especially writing). I'm in the new job adjustment period, which one friend told me lasts about a month, so hopefully I'll be able to pull it together soon. This is a very minor complaint, more like an observation. I'm just trying to figure out how to work full time, finish my book, and spend time with my husband. And work out, and clean the house, and cook, and, you know, have a life. The same problem everyone else in the world is trying to figure out, unless we die in the meantime. I mean, we all gotta die sometime, right?

See the train of thought my brain is on when I think about the current political situation? Scary. My opinion of current events is so poor that I think, "Well, I'll be dead someday and it won't matter." Sad, sad, sad. I think I'm becoming a pessimist.