started my job and i have been there a week. its been fine. first weeks are always a bit slow and there is a settling in process but it seems ok. i am not counting the days till i leave and i have nothing to complain about.
weather has been amazing as it has been for the last 3 or 4 weeks. beautiful sunny days and today we had persistent rain for the first time in ages, but seeing as we had hardly any for a month, it was fine and almost welcome. i just get annoyed when it rains for months on end.
seeing as the job is going ok, it means i am almost certainly not going to go to cali this year. i really can not justify spending that much on a holiday in a year where i have had 6 months off. i have the money but it just does not feel like the right thing to do. sometimes you wonder if you are doing the right thing, and i try and when i am not sure, i try to imagine what my dad would have done, and that usually decides it for me and makes me see sense and grounded.
today i have been listening to radiohead - climbing up the walls. there is a new single from one of my favourite bands, editors, but to be brutally honest, its a bit dull......and shit. they have just moved into the middle of the road along with a bunch of other popular british bands and its a bit dissapointing . i really tried hard to convince myself that it was a good song, but it just is not. self delusion is tied to irrationality and ignorance and closed thinking.
another example of self delusion and irrationality was when i recently heard someone on the radio arguing about the iraq war, and they finished the debate with the same question every time, "so you would rather still have saddam hussein ruling iraq?". aside from the obvious argument that its not up to us to decide who rules iraq and that other countries can not simply invade other countries whenever they feel like it, the other side of that question is "so you would kill 2 million people, displace 2.5 million refugees and spend a trillion dollars to get rid of saddam?" you have to be a bit self delusional to ignore millions of deaths.
self delusion is a dangerous thing. here is a clip of secretary of state albright in 1995 responding to a question about half a million children being killed.
weather has been amazing as it has been for the last 3 or 4 weeks. beautiful sunny days and today we had persistent rain for the first time in ages, but seeing as we had hardly any for a month, it was fine and almost welcome. i just get annoyed when it rains for months on end.
seeing as the job is going ok, it means i am almost certainly not going to go to cali this year. i really can not justify spending that much on a holiday in a year where i have had 6 months off. i have the money but it just does not feel like the right thing to do. sometimes you wonder if you are doing the right thing, and i try and when i am not sure, i try to imagine what my dad would have done, and that usually decides it for me and makes me see sense and grounded.
today i have been listening to radiohead - climbing up the walls. there is a new single from one of my favourite bands, editors, but to be brutally honest, its a bit dull......and shit. they have just moved into the middle of the road along with a bunch of other popular british bands and its a bit dissapointing . i really tried hard to convince myself that it was a good song, but it just is not. self delusion is tied to irrationality and ignorance and closed thinking.
another example of self delusion and irrationality was when i recently heard someone on the radio arguing about the iraq war, and they finished the debate with the same question every time, "so you would rather still have saddam hussein ruling iraq?". aside from the obvious argument that its not up to us to decide who rules iraq and that other countries can not simply invade other countries whenever they feel like it, the other side of that question is "so you would kill 2 million people, displace 2.5 million refugees and spend a trillion dollars to get rid of saddam?" you have to be a bit self delusional to ignore millions of deaths.
self delusion is a dangerous thing. here is a clip of secretary of state albright in 1995 responding to a question about half a million children being killed.
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