Meta-blogging

Yesterday I wrote this for my blog, but (horrors!) the internet was down at work. How the fuck am I supposed to waste time while I wait for work with no internet?!!! Anyhoo, here's what I wrote:

Over the past few days work has been a total bore – my many and varied projects continue to be tied up in various waiting games for feedback/instruction from such powers-that-be as the city, my bosses, and the dreaded clients-who-believe-I-am-a-time-traveller-and-thus-don’t-need-to-send-me-feedback-until-the-exact-moment-they-want-a-response. Hours of sitting with nothing to do, nothing “billable” anyway, and I am stripped of my connection to what I am doing here. I am a cog in an alien machine whose complexity is designed to cloak its true purpose.

Crazybirdlady is sick today – because she too has lost her purpose? – so I am alone with my thoughts and my waiting and my obsessive reading of other people’s blogs. My current favourite is “Bad News Hughes” – a disturbing freak from Florida that I would almost certainly hate if I met in person, but is a damned funny writer at that.

An email arrives – I have some work I can do, but a week of lazy has a kind of terrible momentum to it. It takes real effort to get going again, my brain feels like cornstarch in water – totally soquid.

By the way, I am totally floored by the current situation in Lebanon. Suppose some nuts in Niagra kidnapped some U.S. border guards and the Canadian government couldn’t get them back that day. Would it then be justified for the U.S. to bomb Toronto? Of course not – that would obviously be psychotic. So when Israel bombs the Beruit airport because terrorists in a different part of the country have kidnapped their soldiers what do we do? Call it reasonable and try to evacuate our citizens from the Israeli swath of destruction. 300 civilians dead because terrorists kidnapped 2 soldiers. Yeah, that’s totally justified. Of course the U.S. can’t say anything – they bombed the shit out of Afghanistan when some terrorists that lived in the backwoods of that country messed with them. But us Canadians are supposed to be better than that. Stephen Harper should pull his head out of his ass, and do something useful instead of his lame “I’m going to Cyprus to help the evacuation” publicity stunt. For shame “Steve”, for shame.

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Anyway, that's the stuff I wrote yesterday. I still am stuck for work. Crazybigboss is still crazy. But at least I've got a bunch of planning done for my upcoming vacation.