Apr. 10th, 2003

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So, I've been sitting here 2.5 hours without adding so much as a comma to the evaluations. Last night, I promised myself I wouldn't leave until I had at least cut-'n'-pasted the employee's self-evauations into the evaluation forms.

I stayed until 6:15.

Tomorrow afternoon, I leave for Houston. I said I'd try to have them ready for review by my supervisor before I go. Where is the sense of panic that I depend upon to meet deadlines? Why, instead of beavering away on them, am I considering writing up and posting last night's pleasant shit-shooting with two neighbours?
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For a while now, I've been meaning to mention what happen to the anti-abortion ad on the el platform that I wrote about a month ago. Someone has defaced it, neatly excising the word "abortion".

Seeing that made me madder than the original billboard. Vandalism isn't an appropriate response to a viewpoint you don't agree with--at least, that kind isn't. I have a real affection for clever retorts. (Like the classic e. keeps: A car ad saying If this were a woman, it would get its bottom pinched supplemented with If this woman were a car, she'd run you down.) But if you feel that strongly, what you should really do is what they did: Put money where your mind is and sponsor your own damn ad.

I wanted to give vent to these feelings by scribbling them on the rectangle of exposed cardboard, but I couldn't think of a pithy way to express them in the space allotted. That's the trouble with meaningful exchanges of ideas: They don't fit on a sign. It's one reason why I find street protests frustrating. How do you tell what people's actual motives are for chanting "DROP BUSH NOT BOMBS" or wear a shirt saying "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER"?
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From a recent MSNBC article:
April 10 — With fierce firefights raging in some Beirut neighborhoods, U.S. Central Command said the city remained an "ugly place." NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports.


Update: Some time between when I posted last night and 7:15 this morning, the editor woke up and removed the erroneous caption. Ah, the fun of round-the-clock instant reporting! Rest assured, however, that my fault-finding eye--much like those diligent journalists--never rests.

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