Mouth is moving, but Mr. Brain has long since left the building

I had hoped to skip SAD this year. For the 2nd year running (!), I've not experienced my usual depression at the onset of cold and dark, for which I am even more grateful than usual, given the circumstances this year.

Unfortunately, one thing I can't escape is the lethargy. For the past week or so I have had a major case of the "slows", in both mind and body. Exercise has gone from a pleasure to a chore (though I'm sometimes ok once I get moving). Writing has been an uphill battle, either fiction or in my journal (looking at my entries for the past few days makes me blush). I will consider myself productive if I manage to sew a single lacing hole this evening.

Luckily, work of late has been mostly repetitive code cleanup and graphic design based on a mock-up that was so well thought out that I didn't need to inject much creativity into it. I keep my mind from blanking completely with the help of coffee, Discworld audio books, and Art Bell.

This is most vegetative time of the year :P I plan to spend it at Return of the King tomorrow, as D. and I have high hopes that the theaters will be (relatively) empty on Christmas Eve.

For tonight, on to that lacing hole :P Hopefully later on, to dream of hot summer days in which I'm so awake my scalp fairly prickles with energy!

the cloud

Just when I was talking about rays of sunshine earlier...I may be braindead, but I didn't need to be that cognizant to realize that this is Bad News(TM):

The Martial Plan: Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own - discusses police/prison abuses of men arrested after September 11, and detainment of foreign correspondents desperate to get a Bennifer Lopez story.

"So what?" We might justly ask - most of us aren't suspected terrorists or journalists. This doesn't have anything to do with me, and the pendulum will swing the other way eventually, etc.

It does get worse: South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges.

Look at the video at the bottom of the article (I refrain from a direct link out of respect for those on dialup). I admit, I don't know the full situation - maybe the school in question does have a serious drug problem, but am I completely naive to find it extremely disturbing to see armed police casing a public school like it's a crackhouse?

Were I more awake I'd work up a fire and brimstone rant on these abuses, but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and I'm equally sure there are others out there who can righteously condemn these actions more eloquently than I can.

Right now I'm just wondering - jlsjlsjls - that fold out sofa still available?