It’s Friday morning, and it’s freakin’ cold here in Austin. Seriously, it was 25 degrees when I left the house this morning. I’m not leaving my office today if I can help it … brrr! There’s no real reason to do so — some of my coworkers brought in a cake for the birthday I’m ignoring (it’s tomorrow, anyway), and there’s nothing like chocolate to keep warm. Mmmm. Chocolate.
A frightening number of people tuned into my post yesterday about my frustrations with the men I work with and their weird bathroom habits. Should I write about scatological topics more often? Trust me. I’ve travelled in lots of places with really interesting bathrooms. In fact, there was this one time when I was in some itty bitty town in the Sinai Peninsula on a bus going somewhere, and all the guys went around behind the building and peed against the wall because the bathroom in the bus station was so rank. Like, the toilet directly opened into the sewer lines which clearly hadn’t been flushed out in a very long time. OK, I’m done with that. Just thinking about it makes me a little queasy.
So, it seems that today the House may or may not get around to voting on a non-binding resolution that will or will not scold the president for trying to build up troop levels when everyone and their dog both here and in Iraq is saying it’s a bad idea. Now, normally I’m all for people standing up to the president, but I have this feeling they’re going to produce something that’s so watered down it will amount to something more akin to a swab with a cotton ball than a slap on the wrist. Not that he’ll pay attention to the resolution anyway … well, at least until it comes time to decide which one of the Republican candidates he’ll endorse next year. I see a lot of other bloggers getting very up in arms about this. I don’t understand why – maybe I’m too jaded, but it’s not going to make a bit of difference. Not now, not ever.
Speaking of stupid … things … can someone please explain to me why it costs more to fly from Austin to Albuquerque than it does to fly from Austin to Los Angeles? Can I book a flight to Los Angeles and just get them to let me off as we’re going over Albuquerque? And how come a certain airline’s “special sale fares” look exactly the same as the “normal fun fares” I saw when I looked this all up last week?
At any rate. Tomorrow is another day — and another year for me, although I’m going to pretend otherwise (denial ain’t just a river in Egypt). I hope you’re keeping warm and that there’s chocolate of some sort … ooh, chocolate martini …. in your future.
Happy Friday!
