Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am most apologetic for my recent lapse in typing. You see I have nothing to say for myself except that I have been really busy. I took the advice of an old contact here in DC and began taking classes through the University of Virginia to get a certificate in PR.
You can imagine my annoyance when a recent job interviewer asked me if that is a 'pseudo graduate degree' program. I don't know what that woman meant-but I know that the classes, the homework, the reading, the restricted social life, and the bills do not feel 'fake' at all. Some people are rude and I pity them.
It's been a relief to come through the election cycle and see George W. Bush back in office. It's even better to see the conservative party running the government of our country. If there is anything I cannot do anymore if sit around and keep my mouth shut while people complain about Bush. It seems that most liberals could do nothing before the election but talk about how stupid Bush was and how Kerry was the real choice.
I worked with this inane man at a temp position who spent the entire day telling me how stupid 'W' is....and how he was going to one day unite the Democratic party by doing taxes on everything. Apparently, the Democrats are fragmented because the cannot agree on what they want taxed-he would have them tax everything and be loving to one another as a result. All of this was at frenetic heights as we approached the election. His arrogance that conservatives are ultimately stupid and unkind was a form of attack that I have never witnessed. He had no internal monologue and ultimately sputtered everything that entered his emotionally weak and deranged mind.
I had moments when I felt tempted to enlighten him to the reasons why most adults become conservatives-like when he told me that he hated the amount of money the government was taking from his paycheck-how's that for cognitive dissonance?
Anyways, I did not though-I did nothing... I only ignored him, hated him, and finally pitied him. You see he had been recently dumped by his boss-who he was dating-barely been hired back as a teacher after being accused of sexual harassment at his 2/3 of the year job. And on most days looked like a dead on for 'towlie' from Southpark. Although, I wondered if speed wasn't the drug of choice on long nights from the way he talked and acted. He told me with much pride about the many times he had successfully debated teenagers and put them in their place as a teacher. Throughout all of this, I never really ripped him down, never argued with him, and never gave him the whupping he deserved. Why? Because I wanted to be professional in the workplace, and not have arguments about politics with an insipid person. I wanted to be an adult in other words.
I would expect that these days he has fallen into a depression related to the fall of Liberals from power for real in DC. There was no Floridia recall, no votes to be recounted. The election results came in, Kerry fell from grace and bowed out gracefully-Thank you Senator Kerry for that! Now, political pundits sit around on talk shows and talk about reworking the liberal movement and plot how they should react to this stunning blow. Terry McAuliffe's days are numbered and the word liberal seems like a lonely word.
The word connotates images of snobbish, out of touch Hollywood types, rich hardened people, and well nothing I want to be connected to-I should feel some sort of happiness at the win. But, I live with and around a large number of liberals-who feel no sort of shame in crying about their loss. They complain endlessly and since I endured my coworker for those three months-quietly-dutifully, I feel like being inappropriately smug, unkind, and superior myself. I think someone would say I was taking on the liberal attitude of having all the answers and not being willing to listen to people. Really all I want is to not have to listen to this crybaby attitude. I lived through Bill Clinton and the hell of having him in office-porking the world and himself all day and night.
I feel like the 'W's' reign in office is a just and deserved retribution for having to live with Bill Clinton in office for 8 years....and with that... I can continue being kind, sympathetic, and understanding when my neighbors whine and cry over the state of the liberal government in the U.S.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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