It’s Monday, I’m so, so tired. The weekend was quiet-we gathered up pine boughs for the Advent Spiral at school, shopped a little, went to church Sunday. I got to bed early, but woke up a few times. Not much else-the house is pretty clean, though I don’t know how much energy I’ll have tonight (enough to run the dishwasher, a load of laundry and clean the cat box). S got to sleep in good order. I went to bed a bit late.
I feel better today-no idea why yesterday was so bad.
Wednesday: woke up to the news that our gamelan’s music director’s 3 week old baby has died of meningitis. Sad. So, so sad. Just so tragic.
Long commute home, plated dinner, gamelan was somber, house has Christmas boxes unpacked everywhere. Cleaned the cat box. Watched South Park. That is all.
Got a cash thing from work that will save Christmas. E got rid of some of her parents’ jewelry too. We’re still underwater, but this helps. I need to fix up my stick and sell it, and the tabla.
Links: Thanksgiving and the Socialist Imaginary, The Conservative March Toward a Society of Sociopaths, Dear Evangelicals: You’re Being Had, How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter, Are Humans Going Extinct?, The American Dream Is Dead, Slap-in-the-Face Wealth Gap Images, A Genuine Movement for Social Change, How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey, How White Fundamentalists Are Roiling America, Secrets of the right-wing brain, The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy, An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward, A therapist goes to middle school and tries to sit still and focus, How The GOP Is Coming Apart At The Seams, Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis, Conservative Christian Calls For ‘A Biblical View On Computer Programming’, I’ve Crunched the Numbers, and the American Dream Is Dead, Is the Democratic Party Relevant Anymore?
Listening to: Material, Allan Holdsworth, Cult, Jeff Beck, d’incise, Bill Bruford, Billy Thorpe, Mickey Hart, Alvari Lume, Tao Te Ching, A Beautiful Machine, Pink Floyd, Rush, Can, Clockcleaner, Thomas Dolby, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Peter Gabriel, Rush, Oingo Boingo, David Sylvian, Carrie Yury, Bhagavad Gita, Coyote Oldman, Beck, Jethro Tull, Boccherini, Bhagavad Gita, Rush, Gyuto Tantric University, Bitplasma Division, Renaldo & The Loaf, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Jalikebba Kuyateh & the Toubabs, Genesis, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Clinton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Art Of Noise, Hole, Golden Earring, Brian Eno, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Mickey Hart, Minister, Babe The Blue Ox, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Biosphere, mystified, Bill Bruford, Radiohead, Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Gamelan, Babe The Blue Ox, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Allan Holdsworth, Anugama, Gamelan, Snakefinger, Anugama, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Rush, Antranik Askarian and Khatchadour Khatchaturian, U2, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Kaminari Synthesis, Beatmapper, Philip Glass, Steve Roach, Peter Gabriel, Brand X, Rolling Calf Sinfonette, Babe The Blue Ox, Moby, Collection, Daniel Lanois, Police, Frank Zappa, David Canright, Neil Young, insanic4, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Mozart, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Duran Duran, Art Of Noise, Brian Eno, Gamelan, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Giles Reaves, 311, Chick Corea, Ben Bracken & Eric Cook, KMFDM, Scott Smallwood