Working Again

Well, I've finally rejoined the workforce. Today through Dec. 3 I'm working at Wintec Arrowmaker in what will hopefully be the last short-term assignment for quite a while. I'm doing print production on a contract proposal, bringing together materials from different companies into a coherent whole. So far, everyone here is great.

On Dec. 4, I go to work at Synergy Enterprises, doing the same sort of thing plus some things ancillary to production, as a full-time, temp-to-hire employee.

The perverse upside to this is that I'll hopefully be posting more, since I won't be drowning in my own inertia at home, plus I truly believe that busy people get the most done--to an extent.

I suppose time will tell. But it is nice to be working again.

That Syria?

The state sponsor of terrorism? The torturer? The supposed resting place of Saddam's WMD? The country some posited was next on the invasion list? That Syria is going to "help bring stability" to Iraq? We're playing international footsie with those bastards? (Referring to the government; I have no rancor for everyday Syrians.)

And it only gets a blurb box on the front page of the Washington Post? While polygamists, fucking OJ and bible-reading grunts take up space. (Not that I'm begrudging the grunts anything, but c'mon, it's a feature photo unrelated to any of the stories. Unrelated art is by definition unnecessary.) I know the State Department is being run by Aunt Tom and that we've apparently become unable to control the Vichy Iraqi Government. But Syria? That Syria?