File under "posts about filing"

Made it to another Friday. I hadn’t really fully realized the value of Fridays in my adult life until about the last five years. The position I’m in is only my second one in which I’ve worked a regular Monday-Friday schedule. Now I don’t consider Fridays so overrated.

Random track kicked up on the don’t-call-it-an-iPod: “Darling, the Streets Are For Keeps” by Indiana’s own Marmoset. They were a band that I had always considered to be on the second tier of local bands, and then they put out the excellent Today It’s You album and changed my perception considerably.

I’ve lost momentum. There is a whole bunch of filing to be done, because filing is at the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as my job duties are concerned. Oh, it’s important, especially when inspectors come in, but my enthusiasm for the task falls short of its importance. But it’s one of those things that only calls attention to me if it doesn’t get done. I don’t mind being a behind-the-scenes type, which is a drastic change from my original plan of unrestrained fame and fortune. But filing is just mundane and not appreciated.

Next random track: “Radio Show (Trust the Wizard)” by Guided by Voices. It recalls an earlier post from this week: “It’s another day today, it’s another day today.”

Speaking of mundane, one change from my earlier post about soccer: I had said that I wouldn’t be getting up in the middle of the night to watch any of the games. Thank goodness for that; the games will be on between 10 and 4 in the day. So, let me amend my earlier statement:

I won’t be staying home from work to watch the games.

Next random track: “School” by Nirvana. I wonder what ever became of them.

There’s apparently a fuss surrounding Ann Coulter and the comments she gave to Matt Lauer on “Today” one day earlier this week regarding a group of 9/11 widows. I’m trying to muster something, anything – faux outrage, qualified support, anything – and I just can’t do it.

I like Ann. I really do. There is truth in what she says if one cares enough to dig beneath the bombast. Most people don’t. They call people on the right “reactionary,” yet every time Coulter opens her mouth about anything – religion, the media, the weather - the left will immediately seize on a particular phrase or a sentence and try to deem the rest of her argument irrelevant because of it.

My problem is: I just can’t bring myself to care anymore. This is not a slight directed at Ann; it’s a general apathy that I’ve felt toward politics and punditry as of late. There’s a reason, after all, that I took down the links to the various political websites over there in the sidebar. If you care enough about what those folks have to say, I’m sure you have the resources at your disposal to find them. Besides, I doubt that any of them have lost traffic since I removed the links from this blog.

Me – I’m just tired of all of the shouting.