Languishing ennui

So yesterday was Talk Like A Pirate Day and I completely spaced it--as did most on my f-list apparently. Oh, how quickly the charming novelties of yesteryear lose their appeal and shine.

*languish* *ennui*

Today I'm sulky.

I'm sulky because I very much don't want to be at the office. I'm not even trying to fast (a half-eaten dish of yogurt and Kashi Go Lean! is sitting next to my keyboard at this very moment).

I go through phases of enjoying and despising coming to work. It's not like I like my actual job more or less. Overall, I quite enjoy what I do here. However, there are times when I don't have a lot to do at the office but loads of stuff to do at home. That makes it difficult to maintain good attitude about coming to work. These are the times when I think I should just quit my job and make a go at costuming and teaching belly dance for a living. It would be a much easier decision if I didn't honestly enjoy working with and for the graduate students here. Plus, could I make this amount of money (plus benefits) if I was self-employed? Um. No.

I tell myself this, too, shall pass. But saying that doesn't help the long days when I would rather be elsewhere, doing otherwise.

I'm sulky because everflame and I didn't get to go to yoga last night. We started out to Baldwin, and just past the stoplight on highway 59 out of Lawrence, there was a big construction delay. We sat at a dead stop for fifteen minutes. At 6:15 I realized there was no way we were going to make it to Gopi's in time for class, so we turned around. On the way home, we grabbed some Guinness and hard cider. Instead of stretching, we loosened up by drinking the evening away and watching the wonderful storm pass through.

I made some halawa, but since I'm still missing the laptop with my recipes, I didn't make it quite right. It was a little dry and thick, but everflame and mckitterick didn't seem to mind.

I'm sulky because I don't have time or energy to do some serious grocery shopping and real, honest-to-gods cooking. I bought Super Natural Cooking this week. Now I'm itching to get back to a whole foods kitchen--something I haven't cultivated with any rigor since 1998.

*languish* *ennui*

I'm too sulky even to flail about in frustration. The most I can muster is a couple fingerdrums on the desk.

Bleh.

Boy, do I feel better now!

Hey! It just keeps getting better and better, folks!

Check out this uplifting article from Wired about ever-increasing screening procedures for air travel. Oh, and if you need another little boost of optimism, try reading about W's intentions to make warrantless wiretapping permanently legal!

Yowza! Times have never been so good for right-wing totalitarian repressive ass-wipes!

Heads-up courtesy of the kind people at danger_army.