Wednesday, March 02, 2005

What, March already?

This year is moving more quickly than I'd ever imagined possible. Exhilarating and yet terrifying. I don't know when my internal clock changed from "How can it still be Monday?" to "Holy Fuck, what Day/Month/Year is it again?!" but I still cringe a little every time I write 2005, from the sheer science fiction-osity of it all. Maybe by the time 2006 rolls around, I'll be used to it. One can always hope.

Fortunately, my big employment project has been postponed til the 10th, which buys me some much-needed breathing room. Oddly enough, the combination of procrastination and perfectionism didn't work out so well, so I'm really grateful to have a little extra time to flesh out my ideas and put together something I can feel good about. The plan is to work on it tomorrow and hopefully finish up this weekend, because *fingers crossed* I may be temping starting Friday. I'm actually pretty happy about easing back into the workplace this way; there's much less pressure on a temp job and overall, it should be a good move. I should have more details sometime tomorrow.

Anyway, last night I went to a meeting for The One Campaign. The timing was interesting, because I came home and saw this thread on metafilter, with the inevitable debate on celebrity activism. I came away from both the meeting and the online conversation with a curious combination of hope and frustration: hope, because of the large number of people willing to dedicate themselves to action; frustration, because try as I might to "increase awareness" (one of the stated goals of yesterday's meeting) it's still the G-8, World Economic Forum & the like that decide the fate of entire nations. Guh. If I don't reign this in a bit, I'm gonna end up burned out & apathetic all over again, so I'll just have to focus on what I can reasonably do and hope for the best.

Afterwards, I had dinner at Space Kitten's house, and we went to Club Screwball at The Parlour. Random good times were had by all. I'm told that in lieu of Easter, they'll be hosting an event honoring cthulhu, but I can't find any mention of it at all on their website.

Anyway, it looks like the rain is on it's way back, and I can't justify spending any more time on the computer without doing some actual work, so it's back to chores for me.....

posted by Space Kitty at 4:09 PM|| Comments (3)