I'm not going to go into details or anything, but if sometime in the near future one finds me drinking bottles of cheap wine alone with my cat and singing bad 80s love songs at the top of my lungs it's time for an intervention.
No more DVD Release Parties! I was up against Santa Claus and a parade downtown and still managed a respectable audience of 138. No more popcorn. No more unruly children. No more substandard computer animated cartoons. I'm being forced to continue this event in the spring, but am scaling it way back to only 2 or 3 films instead of 5. I've said it before and I will say it again: it is not my job to program for children. I will miss the now infamous emails I would send out after the show explaining how things went as will the staff it seems. I received an email from a coworker suggesting I continue sending out a weekly email describing my observations and interactions with patrons and then turn it into a book. Though occasionally you do have a good one (last night a 15 year old girl asked if she could "rent out" the library auditorium to throw her Sweet 16 Party) most patron interactions are brief and boring. "Yes, it sure is wet out there! Sounds like we're in for some snow! No, I haven't read the latest Karen Kinsbury. I'll have to check that out! Yup, it IS busy!" Not exactly page-turning material.
In honor of this momentous ending, I celebrated a little too much at the Sandbar. I had some good times with some regulars. And on the way home I discovered an unconventional method for ridding myself of the hiccups. It was a rough start to the day especially given that the drain in my bathtub was (and probably still is) clogged even after 2 bottles of Draino. It is currently filled 1/2 way with disgusting rusty water and floaty bits of junk. A call was made to the caretaker extraordinaire but I'm not holding my breath that it's been taken care of. I know I would have felt 100% better had I been able to stand in a steaming hot shower for 15 minutes. If the situation hasn't improved I've already lined up a shower for the morning at the front house.
Is it just me or has the U.S. started acting like an abusive spouse by blaming Iraq for the unstable environment? Now wait just a second, here. Before we (foolishly) invaded that country (illegally and unnecessarily) Saddam Hussein was doing a fine job of keeping everyone in line. Sectarian violence wasn't an issue. And it's not a coincidence that the violence increased right after the Democrats won back the House and Senate. They aren't stupid and they watch CNN right along with the rest of the world. Iraq's afraid we're going to pull out and everyone's looking to grab power and control. The White House can say whatever it wants, but it's also not a coincidence that memo was leaked the day G.W.B. was supposed to meet with al-Malaki. Don't call it a civil war and just keep insisting that al Qaeda is involved ("There's a lot of sectarian violence taking place, fomented, in my opinion, because of these attacks by al Qaeda, causing people to seek reprisal." That's a G.W.B. quote.) and maybe no one will notice when we pull out leaving that country a complete disaster. You think he'll ever define exactly what victory means in Iraq? Because I'm starting to wonder if victory means there are no more Iraqis left.
"We will continue to be flexible, and we'll make the changes necessary to succeed. But there's one thing I'm not going to do: I'm not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete," Bush said later, in a speech here in the Latvian capital. "We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren."
What about their children and grandchildren?
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