Hmmm...

So I've finished everything I have to do today at work. No-one can come up with anything more for me to do.

It's 8:30. I got in at 8:00, had a bagel for breakfast, and read my friends page before starting work.

The mind boggles. Why do they need a temp again?

I am Confused.

From a NYTimes.com story on what Bush does with his time:

"To break it down further, the president is generally awake by 5 a.m., when he has coffee and reads the newspapers in bed with his wife."

Now, if I'm not mistaken, this quote is about the exact same president who said he didn't read newspapers because they were biased; instead, he got his news from his (absolutely unbiased!) advisers and also from a couple of really friendly lobbyists who happened to be hanging around the White House.

Now that president reads newspapers in bed with his wife? Not only that, he generally reads newspapers in bed with his wife, implying that this is the status quo, the typical morning throughout his entire presidency, and not a sudden change? Did I miss something? Was there a big news article three months ago saying "Bush Decides to Check Out Actual News Sources Rather Than Dick Cheney?" (Really, who'd want to check out Dick Cheney?) Was there a sudden revelation that actually, all that stuff about not reading newspapers was a lie, prepared by the RNC to make Bush seem more like the common people, and in fact he reads every major newspaper in the country and has a Ph.D. in political science and international relations?

Somehow I'm thinking "no."

And yet the article doesn't address that contradiction at all. Instead, it sounds rather as though Bush is totally overbooked and busy and smart. (Whoa. That's approaching AU territory, there.) There's another big problem with it, too, by my standards, which is that it's trying to analyze what Dubya does with his time -- while focusing only on the time he spends in D.C. I might have liked an analysis, say, of how many hours Bush has worked last year compared to most employed Americans. The author could have pointed out that Bush has more vacation than any other President, say, or that he seems to have no problem vacationing in Texas during the early stages of a war. Seems to me that that would be a better indicator of what Bush values and what Bush time means.

But maybe that's just me.

In other news, I clearly need a set of political icons. I should get on that. A nice "wtf?" one for ridiculous media coverage of, well, anything, say. And I'm sure I can think of something snarky to say for an icon of BushCo. I should get on that.

Vaguely fandomy, despite being from work

Ooooh, resonant8 has posted a new story! New story new story new story! It's HP/HG/RW, and m_shell tells me it's very good. I, being all sensitive to work-safe issues, as it were, am trying very hard to remember to read it when I get home. But everyone should go read it, because resonant8 kicks ass.

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Also, I have no HP icons. This should be remedied, but I'm kinda uncomfortable with doing icons of Harry or any of the kids because of the Cult around them. I mean, the whole thing where women four times their ages want to have sex with them. Eeek. And Remus has a ridiculous mustache. And Sirius was never my favorite. And Snape icons are a little Cult-of-Alan-Rickmany.

Maybe I should do icons of Gilderoy Lockhart. Or, or, Petunia. Or Dudley with a tail.

Clearly my problem here is that I'm uncomfortable with a fair amount of the tropes of HP fandom. Which is unfortunate, as there's also some really fun stuff going on there.

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Ever have someone friend ("trust?") you and defriend ("de-trust?") you inside of, basically, a day? I mean, I'm really horrifically slow at adding people to my friends list, because I forget to do it, or forget to check (because I still have trouble understand why anyone who doesn't already know this would want to read stuff), or am worried about being overwhelmed, but I hope it's not people who are all "well, if she didn't friend me back in two days, I'm leaving!" Or maybe I hope it is those people, because then I can be all "gosh, how immature" and pretend it has nothing to do with anything I say or do. Not that I'm in denial or anything.

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