Listening to the news is starting to bum me out. Every morning I wake up to news radio. I am getting close to changing that habit just like I had to after 9/11.
First I worry about gas prices. Not so much the impact of my wallet to fill up my car but rather the impact of the trickle down. Every thing is going to be too expensive. I just see this as the beginning of a major economic problem. Because we live below our means I am not worried about us per se but everyone else who can barely make ends meet as it is. It is going to get worse for them then eventually everyone. I can so see this thing trickeling down to me losing my job. I work in the art department of a big corporation. We are fluff. Yesterday our company had a great earning report and was doing really good then today I hear one of our divisions is laying off people.
As if the gas problem wasn’t enough of a drain on the economy, don’t get me started on the mortgage problem. Again this doesn’t impact me directly right now but as mortgage companies and banks go down, I can’t see how anyone can get away unscathed eventually. Are we heading for a “Great Depression”
Then there is environmental issues and …..well it is all becoming too overwhelming.
Today at lunch I decided to look at my photo magazine to unwind and there was a horrifying section on how fucked up we made this planet. Last night I was catching up on my TiVoed shows and was watching a marathon of Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days and that was depressing me.
Tonight I decided to just watch mindless fluff to escape from all the bad news. I started with an episode of Bewitch and the Dick Van Dyke show which actually had me laughing out loud. And I have ended the night watching my favorite New Zealanders, the Flight of the Concords.
I feel better now.
Please excuse the bad sentence structure of this posts. I wanted to get my thoughts down as quickly as I could before hitting the hay. Good night.