Poor poor piteful me...or whinging

[shadowkat]

(Poor poor piteful me is from an old, 1970s, Linda Rondstadt
song that I last heard when I was 8, fits today.)



Well, I *finally* got hold of the cable company. Appears it's not just a general outtage, it's just my cable that is out, in which case they need to send a technician. Of course the
earliest was Tuesday at 10-noon. Nope. Sorry. Finally got a temp job, can't afford to stay home and play with the cable repair man. So they scheduled an appointment for Saturday at
2-6pm. What this means is - I won't be able to watch Nip/Tuck, The 4400, Rescue Me, or The Dead Zone this week. Or anything else I was watching. The only channels I get are unnecessary ones such as 21, the Food Channel, a couple of foreign language channels, and TV Guide Channel. The good news is they will credit my account for the period of the outtage.
The bad news, I'm without my distracting/comforting toy for the week. Oh well, should probably do more reading and writing anyway. Only one problem, I think I hurt my back last week at work - it feels like someone hit me real hard in the middle of my back and my left calve muscel is still pretty tight. And since I'm doing the same things this week that I did last week, ie. lots of bending and filing, and the computer screen/desk top is way below eye level - this may be a problem.
So coming home, relaxing on sofa, with heating pad would have been ideal solution - harder to do without tv.

Why is it when one thing works out, another falls apart? Want to explain that one to me? Why can't everything work at once?
Yes, I know, whine, whine, whine. I'm frigging lucky to have air conditioning, plenty of books to read, a computer, and wait, a temporary job! What's a little back pain? Or tv outtage?



Oh for anyone who's seen Farenheit 9/11 on my Flist? Check out ginmar's take - this is from someone who is actually in Iraq.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ginmar/288220.html?view=3137756#t3137756

Have to say she does a good job of pin-pointing what it is that bugs
me about Michael Moore. I wish he would stop manipulating and editing facts to persuade people and just let the facts speak for themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Bush. But whenever I watch a Michael Moore documentary, I'm aware of the manipulation behind the scenes, I can feel him pulling my string and that makes me uneasy. It also makes him more of a propagandist than a documentarian in my opinion.

Comments

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

No, someone like Moore probably won't inspire the clergy. He's too extreme and unpreposessing. But thanks to Moore, criticism of Bush is much more open than it was before the movie was made. Now that they have Moore to hide behind, the national media will let him absorb all the hatred while stoking their ratings by discussing the issues he raised. So your basic undecided voter will not listen to Moore, perhaps, but she will listen to Katie Couric discuss Moore. And maybe change her mind.

I don't think he'll convert many Bush supporters, though, because his handlers have very thoroughly and effectively manipulated the public with emotional appeals. Bush is conflated with God, freedom, patriotism, and family. It doesn't matter what the man actually does because he is a symbol, like the flag or the cross. Any criticism of him is an attack on everything they hold dear. It's an interesting psychological experiment, in a way. Create or inflate fears, then tell your test subjects that you have eliminated the threat, than tell them that the threat will return if they don't do what you say. Heck, the Church has been doing it for thousands of years.