Rave

This was made ten years ago, but I just found it two days ago. Eddie Izzard is a genius. He's also terrific in FX's The Riches which I've watched for two days on iTunes.





Yea. That's the same guy!

Rant

I'm missing church yet again. I've got stomach problems again. This is the fourth day in a row and I haven't been all that well for several days before that. I'll be seeing my doctor on the twenty second.

I'm also emotionally up and down ... and mostly down.
I have the feeling that my perspective on the world has been flawed all my life. I seem to have delusions about my place in the work world ... it occurs to me that maybe the world doesn't owe me a living (Mother was right!).

I'm feeling somewhat disgusted with the field of education - whatever joy I've been getting out of it isn't what it's about.

I tried to watch a local tv show put on by our Board of Ed yesterday. I wish I could repeat the babble I heard to illustrate my disgust, but my brain just can't hold all that jargon. (I don't think the word "paradigm" was used. I'd have remembered that.) Here's a quote that has taken me a few minutes to dredge up:
"It's not a program, it's an initiative."
My non-professional response is: "WTF???"
And then the person ended her speech with the words "It's really just common sense." Which made me decide to turn off the TV in search of common sense.

The Nobel

Yes, I've always liked Al Gore. And on this poll Al Gore scores high with me. But the news media has done a lot of spinning the presidential race with the nobel peace prize. I think that's a shame.

A better reflection on the prize can be found here.

Saturday in the eighties

It's October now and the temperature is in the eighties on the Eastern Shore and the forecast has no change in sight. I am feeling grumpy about people continuing in racism and consumerism and ignorance, etc etc. Mostly grumpy that I seem to be limited in how I can act to stop these things.
Here's what I'm trying to do ... and I'm trying to mention it whenever I can ... buying local produce, driving 55, recycling bottles for water, making my own tea, and soft drink, cooking from scratch, eating less meat, losing weight, buying fairtrade goods whenever I can.

While looking for pictures I found a better rant than I can give. That rant cites another rant.