Tuesday, June 07, 2005
(9:09 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 4
This weekend, I "came to terms." I didn't come to terms only with my joblessness, or with the various other uncertainties in my life, but instead I simply "came to terms," tout court. So today, it's going to be harder to fill a hate list. I know there are plenty of bitter people out there, though, who can pick up the slack.Some basics that annoy me: Our mail service sucks generally. We seem to need something fixed in our apartment every couple weeks. I don't get out of the house enough, because I don't have any money to spend. I live on the northwest side of the city, but the primary focus of my life right now is on the southeast side. I wish I could feel right selling my car, because it would represent a huge financial windfall and would cut my recurring expenses significantly.
I am still neurotic about keeping up with my e-mail, and that annoys me. Sometimes on Bloglines, I click for it to show all new feeds, and I just mechanically scroll to the bottom without reading any of them, because the sheer repetition is incredibly tedious. The same goes for a daily news feed -- most of the time, for weeks, you're going to get the exact same stories over and over, with subtle nuances changed. Once a week is probably better for news. It would be awesome if there were English-language newsweeklies that were not either utter useless shit (i.e., American newsweeklies) or neoliberal propaganda (i.e., The Economist).
UPDATE [non-hate]: I can't even begin to tell you how nice it is that it's not even 10:30 and I'm already well on my way to finishing a chapter of German. During my "unemployed" phase, I have traditionally not started doing anything of note until noon.
