07 September 04
I ache, both physically and mentally. I spent hours today gathering and moving roughly thirty garbage cans of yard debris while thinking about our president. Then I came back inside, and eventually spent 3 hours reading stuff about our president. (Right before Frances came and took away the electricity, I pirated Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger & Me, then watched them back-to-back.) Basically any quiet time this weekend was spent with me thinking about politics, religion, fear, economics, hate, greed, treason, charity, ignorance, and spin. It’d be nice if I woke up tomorrow and didn’t care so much about politics, and a bit more about video games. I’m glad I don’t make a living designing computer systems that kill people, but I’m starting to understand my job doesn’t exactly make the world a better place.