Didn't realize this post was never posted - was supposed to go up on Easter. Oh, well, better late then never....
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UGH!
Everything is closed today. Flat out closed. Not Starbucks, praise the heavens. But everything else. And I, for one, am ticked off. Why in 2008 must we observe random pagan holidays so much so that we cannot participate in normal everyday business and commerce? I have credit cards and I want to use them, damn it.
The problem is -- and I know I'm not alone here -- that I live in a world where I have 2 days per week during which I have the option to be a normal human being. The other 5 are spent working 12+ hour days and driving a horrendously long commute alone in a car on a highway listening to solitary music of my choosing. For those 5 days I'm in a complete bubble and totally unaware of the rest of the world. On the weekend I get to find out what I've been missing. These are not the days to screw with me by closing shop in observance of a day that frankly, with each passing year is less and less spectacular. I mean COME ON... Nothing miraculous has happened in 2000+ years, and, really, the world has gone to shit, doesn't that, in it of itself, tell us all something about the nature of the accuracies or inaccuracies of a primitive people's storytelling???
And, that aside why does someone else's holiday mean that I can't have a day doing normal, productive errands? Why do I have to pause and contemplate the nothingness I feel in the universe just so 33% of the world can imagine that once upon a time, long ago, something magikal happened in Oz?
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