They better not dare mess with the eviction ceremony

First off, I would like to express my utmost disgust and dismay at my local CBS affiliate for their actions last night. It was bad enough that they shrunk the screen to show election results but they even cut into a broadcast to discuss the primary. Not any broadcast mind you but Big Brother right when the entire house was in a massive argument. What they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a commercial break? Did they really need to tell me what the numbers were with 1% of the polls reporting? It was a freaking August primary. The power of veto competition is way more important than that.

Today was a nice day. Having made my decision has helped to reduce a lot of the stress that I’ve been under for the past few weeks. It’s tough for me to explain but I’ve been waking up every day with a headache that was not alcohol related. I didn’t have an appetite and was probably not drinking enough water given the heat wave that we were under. That is just the way I tend to deal with stress. Lots of people eat when they are nervous; I stop eating. I also tend to lie in bed until the last possible moment. Today I was actually out doing things and laughing and smiling, which is a welcome change.

For those who are already wondering I will be keeping this blog going at the same URL. First off I have to keep blogging because I will have more interesting stories in the next few months than I have had in a long time. Moving to a new part of the country with all of its inherent idiosyncrasies will just be a field day for me. I still won’t write about work (and I’m kind of wondering when I will tell people about the blog) but life should give me a lot of mew topics to explore.

I will be keeping the kcgatsby domain and monitor for a few reasons. First is that after four years I probably have built up a small following who would be upset if I changed the location of the page. But mainly I like the image behind KC Gatsby. I really do try to model myself after Jay Gatsby. Suave and debonair but tied to his past and unable to gain true acceptance in this world. (I’ll ignore the whole part about being shot by a jealous husband. Let’s just say that I avoid swimming pools for that reason.) But being Gatsby in KC doesn’t make sense and neither do I. I’m just a mass of inconsistencies so why not have a name that echoes it. Plus, I have more than my fair share of Daisies in this world.

Wednesday Night Music Club: I’m not sure why but I just really feel like posting some Rufus Wainwright tonight. This is from the Want One album, which is high on the list of incredible discs that you don’t own. There is such an orchestral and dramatic feel to all of his music that I dig. It is musical in the right sense of that term. Plus this song is about the unknown and confusion and it just seems to fit with the way that I’ve been feeling the past few days.

Crawling to the finish line

There is a very strange feeling that comes over you when you receive something like two hundred emails in one day at the office. It’s a sense of uneasy calmness as you discover you have lost so much of the plot that the story seems to make more sense now. Well, that and you immediately start to wonder if you could offshore your own job to India so you wouldn’t have to go through all these messages. Sigh. Sometimes technology isn’t very wonderful. I probably could have solved this in a phone call but ended up filling up an entire server instead.

Wish I could talk about the president’s address but I skipped it in protest. I mean, what type of country is this that we delay an episode of Big Brother just to have the president give a speech? Where are our priorities people? It was vitally important to find out who won the last head of household competition and determined the final two. This isn’t as bad as when CBS decided that the Chiefs pre-season game was more important but it’s in the running.

Oh, and it’s Dick and Danielle in the final pairing. Could we vote for neither of them to win the money? I know that reality shows tend not to reward nice and kind people but do we have to give the prize to the mean, bratty people instead?

Don’t have a whole lot planned for this weekend. Should be able to catch Mark Olson (formerly of the Jayhawks) doing a solo show tomorrow night, which will be cool. The Jayhawks were a horribly underappreciated band who did their thing (country rock with great harmonies) better than anyone else. They just never got that big break. That’s probably the best show of the weekend while next week will be one of those weeks where I’m seemingly always in front of a stage. It’s odd, I can go weeks without seeing any bands and then I’ll do five shows in a week.

I’ll watch the ND-Michigan game, which should just be called the “They’ve got to win eventually” game. I think this is being shown on ABC as they really feel that we all need to be punished. I’m sorry but even as an alum I’m expecting this to be an ugly game. I’ll watch it and cheer but I’m down to hoping for an offensive touchdown that is not totally offensive. People have asked me why I tend to watch games from home as opposed to going to bars. One reason is that I can multitask and use the fact that I’ll be in my apartment for three hours as a great excuse to do laundry. The main reason though is that I need to reduce the amount of time during the week that I spend at the end of a bar, looking down at the veneered surface and muttering obscenities to myself.

Ok, that’s it for this week. I really need to get some sleep. Have a good weekend everyone.