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"The producer Norman Lear once asked, 'You know what ruined television?' His answer: when The New York Times began publishing the Nielsen ratings. 'That list every week became all anyone cared about.' When all companies are quarterly earnings-obsessed, the market starts punishing companies that aren't yielding an instant return. This not only creates a big incentive for bogus accounting, but also it inhibits the kind of investment that builds economic value. America used to know this. We used to be a nation of farmers. You can't plant something today and harvest tomorrow." -- Ted Turner

Not doing so well this week; missed both rehearsals due to crashing in the evenings and not feeling safe to drive. Also behind on housecleaning, laundry, dishes, bills, and email, not to mention LJ reading. Not likely to make it to the thing I want to go to tonight because I'm so far behind on stuff, even if I don't find myself falling asleep around dinnertime again. Not sleeping very well when I do sleep isn't helping things much. Anyhow, not intended as a pity party; intended as an "I'm still here, still feeding Perrine, not hospitalized or anything" and an explanation of why I have so much really late email to apologize for.

At least the weather is pleasant temperature-wise (though alternating between "is it really winter?" and "yah, grey, whatever" visually).

Today I'll try to catch up on the most urgent of the email and the most important of the housework, and otherwise mostly just focus on being well enough and rested enough to get to the places I absolutely must get to this weekend (including the Three Left Feet/Thrir Venstri Foetr gig Sunday evening at St. Martin's in Annapolis).

I've got more to write about when I'm not rapid-cycling between crunch-mode and fall-down-mode, but for now, this: Representative Ric Keller was quoted in an AP article about the challenge to the Electoral College votes from Ohio (thanks to twistedchick for linking to it) as saying, "There's a wise saying we've used in Florida the past four years that the other side would be wise to learn: Get over it." That sounds to me like a cue to reprise a song from November:

Have you ever noticed, when you're being disregarded,
there's a singular phrase the politicos say
For the good of the country pretend nothing's happened
Just close your eyes and make it all go away, hear them say
  
  "For the good of America just forget it, cause it's time to move on"
  but the truth is, you know it when you hear it
  their lips are moving but they're doing you wrong

"Get over it" is not good enough. If you want folks to quit making a fuss, either show real reasons they shouldn't, or fix the things they're complaining about. "Get over it" translates to nothing more than "neener neener Pbbbbbt!".