This time last year

...I was on 'vacation' and making myself miserable with the notion that I had to return to 'work' in 3 days. So I got a tattoo and quit.

"I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
—Fight Club, 1999

The Gazelle

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
The Moral:
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you’d better be running!”

Saw it first when returning rented camera gear from David's FilmVue. Sticking it here, hoping it gives you momentary pause too. because I feel like none of us are entitled to anything, unfortunately not all of us gets this point.

Somethings Need to be Said

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Ambition & Contempt

“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

—Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell."
—American Beauty, 1999

Why Hate Mondays?

"You're young and you've got your health, why would you want to get a job."

It's annoying how people think I have amassed mass secret pockets of free time, because I don't have to 'go to work' well I don't. I honestly don't know where the time goes but, I have no more than when I toiled for The Man. I think the structured coffee breaks and lunch hour played an overseen important part in my days. Screw it.

Had a nice chat with my DJ pal Kevin, who I bribed to lunch with a Button, and who also is strongly against, jobs. laugh. Best lunch I had in ages, though I just had a sandwich. See, we agree, on a of a number of things, but solidly on the fact that the hate thrown at Mondays is totally unjustified. If you hate working so much, esp on Mondays, QUIT. Find something you hate less.


On another note - Friend told me I'm not unemployed so stop tossing the word around "with that silly grin." Apparently, the unemployed are those of employable age and situations, steadfastly looking for work but cannot find. and that, is no, grinning matter... pretty grim.