| 4:52p |
Ugh.
Today annoys me.
Things I want today:
1. I want to go home.
2. I want to play with my dog.
3. I want to go to the gym.
4. I want to take a nap.
5. I want a pedicure.
6. I want to finish reading the 5th Harry Potter book uninterrupted.
7. I want to know the reason behind my Chair's sudden fascination with and complete support of, what appears to me to be....a very bad bill.
8. I want to finish or at least start the budget process.
9. I would like the government to go away.
10. I would like for my elected representatives to not so closely resemble all the dregs of society I come across every day.
Okay, so regarding the last thing...I'm seriously annoyed. Our last governor was ousted because he was involved in a prostitution ring. The day our current governor was sworn in, he admitted to numerous affairs. He recently admitted to cocaine and marijuana use. Also, he has paid for his trysts with his numerous paramours with campaign money, which he now is trying to repay, which in my opinion is admitting that he did wrong. Also, he has given the women he's slept with state jobs.
How is this okay?
Seriously, HOW is this okay, and why does no one care? I'm sick of all this moral relativism bullshit. I'm sick of this...there but for the grace of God go I, and so I can't judge anyone, and I'm going to give everyone cart blance to do whatever they want. WTF is that? I'm sorry, but when you are a public person, having been elected by the public, who is placing their trust in you to do what is right for the state, YOU DON"T HAVE A PRIVATE LIFE ANYMORE. The public deserves to know if you're a slimeball or not, and they deserve to judge you on that. And no, I don't care about party politics on this one. I think that regardless of party, if you're a public official who is committing crimes, you should be out. Enough. When will the public demand more of their elected representatives? The public complains that the government is going down the tubes....look who's running it. Apparently people who do or have used cocaine, cheat on their wives, are involved with prostitution rings, etc....etc....etc. These people get elected...sometimes over and over and over again. Hell, if our standards are so low, why don't we elect by lotto? Give every citizen a number...a number will be selected at random, and that person will then hold public office. Seriously why not? The average citizen knows about as much about a total stranger on the street as they do about their own elected officials, and those strangers are probably better citizens than the people that are elected to be public officers. GAH!
Someone seriously said to me...."how is it a problem if the Governor gave someone a job just because he slept with them? It doesn't mean they're not qualified, and it doesn't mean that it was an abuse of power or authority."
*Spontaneously combusts*
*Steps off soap box*
Seriously, it angers me.
I want to move far, far, far away from it all. The saying about government and sausage is far, far, far too true.
I am depressed that Project Runway is over.
I want to buy things.
I want to feel thin.
I am still torn about when to tell our parents. A lot of people apparently just tell their immediate family in the beginning, but the thing is, and D even agrees with me on this, both of our moms have such big mouths, and they would tell everyone they'd ever met, regardless of whatever I request, and I don't feel comfortable with that. God forbid something goes wrong, I don't want everyone in my family to know, along with everyone that my MIL works with, swims with, or lives near.
Case in point, D recently told his mom something about his sister when his mom was up here to visit. His mom swore she woudln't say anything. She didn't even wait until she was out of the Albany city limits to call his sister to grill her about it, and no, she didn't leave D's name out of it.
At the same time, I knooooow that if I wait too long, I will get tons of grief about not calling the instant I peed on a stick. Am I being a weirdo about this? Help? Can I just wait until 10 weeks and then tell without worrying? Is 12 weeks too long to wait? Should I just get over it and quit freaking out? |