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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
OK, so now I'm supposed to be going to bed. Instead, I'm up typing and listening to Alison Krause and Robert Plant. If you haven't checked out that CD, you need to. You're in for a treat, if you like your music...different. It's different. Robert sings Americana. Alison sings the male lead on two songs. I liked it on the first listen, but as I have played it over and over I keep gaining a new appreciation. It has that muted-bass sound typical of a T. Bone Burnett album. The deep end sounds kind of fuzzy, but it's deliberate. I'm also up because I'm just wired again. The president was on tonight, a prime-time news conference. I really didn't pay a lot of attention to it tonight, which I'm sure would absolutely shock most of the people I work with. They are convinced that I am a card-carrying radical left-wing liberal with an agenda for socialism and potentially bombing a public place. Seriously. It's because there are few, few, few Democrats around where I work, and even fewer of them there who are vocal. I seem to be their spokesperson. I actually had a guy pull me to the side the other day and, in low tones, ask me if it was true that I was a Democrat. He had heard it from people talking in the breakroom. Wow! I'm being talked about, and all I did was support the Democratic Party. Cool. They're convinced that I am Al Franken revisited. By the way, he wanted me to know that he supports me. It felt a little like that scene in Blazing Saddles where the old lady comes to thank Bart in the middle of the night, after he saved the town from Mongo, and as she is leaving she says, "Of course, you'll have the good taste not to mention that we talked." I didn't watch a lot of the news conference because I was a little preoccupied with a bit of worry about my wife. Her job as a full-time nanny for a couple of little girls will end this September, and she's full of stress about it. Of course the part about being unemployed, looking for work again at her certain age, is a major source of concern for her. What really compounds the problem is that she is so emotionally attached to the girls, and they to her. She has been, and is now, an important part of the family. When she leaves, it will be like losing close relatives. I can tell that it hurts her every time she thinks about it. She cries often when the thoughts of what's coming visit her. We talked a little tonight about it, and she has come up with some ideas of how we might get through and how she might be able to train for some other positions in other fields. At one point I told her that all that is very important, and that I know it's a huge priority for her. However, I told her, I really want her to be at peace with the mountain of emotions she is feeling. I know that when all is said and done, we'll be able to find her a job somehow, somewhere that will give her satisfaction, and hopefully good wages. It's more important to me that she is able to be happy and able to move on with her life after raising those two girls. I desperately hope that they'll be involved in her life from now on, and knowing her boss, I firmly believe that is how that part will turn out. But in the meantime, it makes her infinitely sad to think about it, and I fully understand how it would. I intend to encourage her from this point forward.
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