This started off as a really s**tty day. It is one of those kind of days where you start out screaming at some customer service moron in Bangalore or wherever and it just goes downhill from there.
But the trend has reversed itself somewhat this afternoon as things and myself begin to calm down. For the past three years during which I have had a half-assed freelance writing career I have always had the constant of, no matter how crappy my day was, pulling up the blog In the Pink Texas and getting a laugh or a bunch of laughs to lift my spirits.
It isn’t just that ITPT blogger Eileen Smith is a wit. Rather it’s that wit plus her hilarious following who provide their input on the majestic and the not-so-grand who have drawn me to ITPT for these years like onlookers at a car wreck. Hmmm, okay, maybe not the best example but it’s Friday for God’s sake.
Nonetheless, ITPT only moved to Texas Monthly.com it turns out. That’s something in of itself, but I don’t have the time to nor really want to examine the implications of such move and the state of today’s media. For those of you who haven’t read ITPT regularly, it’s not really that far-fetched that something like that would happen since Eileen is editor of TM-dot-com.
So that helped improve my day.
Then I learn from the Office of the Press Secretary in College Station, Texas, (Say what?) that my good ol’ buddy Gee Dubya, that ol’ presidential piss ant (and I say that in a somewhat less-than-spiteful way) has given federal employees Friday, Dec. 26, (Boxing Day in UK-like countries)the day off. Working part-time for the gub’mit I now get paid for not working Christmas Day and the day after instead of just Christmas. I like very much that concept of not working and getting paid for it. It seems like that should have been my major in college instead of journalism.
So now Gee Dubya toward the end of his almost eight-year reign of bulls**t did something which additionally helped make my day a brighter one.
So now it’s time to quit while I am ahead.