Happy Flag Day
So, while this may be the most nondescript and least visually appealing member of the DSV network (5, GP, TE), it is the ONLY guaranteed site on the DSV network where you can find new posts within the last week. And we’ve got much more to come, I promise. Honest.
Links are now updated and to your right, nothing earth-shattering, just the sites that help keep me entertained somewhat during the work week. Still, as I sit here on a Friday, ready to go home — I’m stricken with the kind of malaise that hits you in your mid-20s. Normally I do have a lot of energy (Hey! Stop laughing) , but lately I’m simply sick and tired of just about everything. Some stuff is new, some stuff is old — but lots of it everywhere feels the same — and the staggering sameness (granted, it could be the Midwest) is sometimes disheartening.
To wit:
News – I simply don’t care. This is an issue of federalism on top of personal autonomy, (which may be more troubling, but that’s for another day) and is leading the cycle simply for lack of access to anything else. See DNY for more points of view, which I align myself with. Still, boring.
Sports – So, let me get this straight. We’ve had precisely five good games this whole damn tournament, and tonight I have Duke, North Carolina, and Kentucky all playing — and likely two of the three feature Nantz and Packer? Boring. It’s all been done. And, yes, I love the tournament, but this one sucks. And the season was great up until the tourney. Go figure.
Music. — Lisa Marie Presley is covering Don Henley’s Dirty Laundry. How do things like this happen? Boring.
Books – I’m really struggling to find anything worth reading that I can stick with. Found a good choice here, but lately I’ve been trying to slog through this, and, well, let’s just say I’m at page 40, and I’m done with memoirs forever. I would appreciate recommendations in the comments — I need something, because reading stuff like
More news. — Well, it’s rather tiresome. I don’t profess to treat Newsweek as gospel (interesting choice of words) but each year, like clockwork — they run the same exact cover story. And guess which holiday it coincides with?ow, I’m no genius, but I do believe they are realizing profit on Christian faith, simply to sell a few magazines. And, to ultra-Christians wouldn’t that be somewhat unnerving? Cripes, I get ansty when I feel like Pearl Jam is selling out.
Easter – It’s not an anti-religious stance that fostered this holiday losing it it all for me around the same time I found out the bunny wasn’t real. It just comes every year at the worst possible time. In spring everyone’s busy. Travel, sports, work, you name it. It becomes an empty day in a season I simply have never been able to get myself to enjoy. Plus, there are no days off. Not even today. It’s Good Friday, and I’m in Kansas! Isn’t there supposed to be a parade or something? Side note — in my decidedly non-secular early upbringing, I used to get Flag Day and Good Friday mixed up. And boy, were some of my friends’ parents pissed.
Back next week with the tourney. Keep it real.