Entries from February 2009

Breaking bubbles

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 24, 2009 at 12:03pm   User  by wonderfullyrich

Living in DC describes a bubble of existence, where one can spend years living here and forget what the rest of American really is and almost neglect to consider what the rest of the world’s fate is. So filled with power, money, paradigms of either or thought, enveloped in a artificially defined square which [...]

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The numbers of drama

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 22, 2009 at 6:13pm   User  by wonderfullyrich

I’m wacked out on over the counter drugs and prescriptions for yet another sinus infection that’s been lingering for the last 2 weeks. I’m home this weekend, trying to take it easy, listening to my heart beat, trying to distract myself from the pain in my head. What does one do during such [...]

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Little ants at the Inaguration of Obama

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 8, 2009 at 7:13pm   User  by wonderfullyrich

This is long out of the news by now, but some of you expressed interest in my experience at the Inaguration so I thought I might reflect on it for a bit.
Overall I found it an experience that was heartwarming and tiring with a minor undercurrent of frustration.  I’ll lay this out chronologicly.  I woke [...]

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100 days to settle in

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 6, 2009 at 8:48pm   User  by wonderfullyrich

It dawned on me when I was listening to the Daily Show talk about Obama’s mea culpa on his day 15 of being in the White House, that the first 100 days of any White House is destin to screw up quite a bit.
Most new people in any job take somewhere around 3 months to [...]

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A tiring tide

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 4, 2009 at 8:11pm   User  by wonderfullyrich

Stand in front of the elevator, thinking about the 8 hours of work you are trying to accomplish and all the things you are falling behind on, or should do, and how exhausted you are wanting only to take a nap, all the while realizing that this is irrational, “not really you,” and just a manifestation of the depression makes you all of a sudden just want the tide to break… Even if it’s just for a few hours.

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