New Year, SOS

There are so many things Mom does not understand. She doesn't understand why people have to be so vicious, back stabbing and self serving. Or more likely just apathetic. I try to tell her it's because people don't think about other people, they only think about themselves. In fact, people don't only just think about themselves they don't even think about what is good for the whole. Good for...for instance, an entire library system. They just want to lord it over their small piece of the kingdom.

There is no cooperation. There is no listening to new suggestions or ideas. There is just me, me, me, what about me and MY job. How do I keep my stranglehold monopoly on x-services, y-services, media services, delivery services, z-services, abc branch....etc. etc.

There is no: How can I help make things better? How can I make things run more smoothly. Wouldn't it be nice if more people got involved? No, there is none of that. Communication.....bah....who needs it. Cooperation....ha....what's that?

Someone wants to be proactive and suggest something. Maybe someone just wants to throw an idea out there so we can all mull it over, perhaps collaborate on a large project.

We don't need any of that here missy! Stay on your own patch of dirt, shut the hell up and forget about all your dreams for a better tomorrow.

You may have worked on something for years and years but that doesn't mean you're entitled to keep doing it. We'll just give it away to someone else. Someone who hasn't done it before all because WE CAN and WE WILL and NOTHING CAN STOP US. Because we're THE MAN darn it and don't you ever forget that. The gods forbid you should actually enjoy your job and be fulfilled by it. We'll have none of that here thank you very much.

I am so glad I am a cat.

Mom's getting tense again

They didn't hire anyone to be the manager at Mom's branch. She is very upset at this. There is a rumor that they aren't hiring from within because those people would be too "laid back." Mom almost went off the deep end and one of her coworkers DID go off to the looney bin because of the last manager was a tyrant. What are those administrators trying to do to my Mom? Last time she laid in bed for three days which is great for cuddling but very upsetting because all she did was cry and watch Top Gear. She's also under stress because now they have a new interim manager who isn't around at all. Somehow mom is just supposed to know how to do all that manager stuff and remember to do things like turn in timesheets when she's never done timesheets before. The double job is very stressful on her and it's the holiday season. Someone please give her a hug and I'll cuddle and purr as much as I can.

can't we get along?

You humans amuse me with your "democratic country". You're being held hostage by a two party system constantly at odds. When will the rationalist party form? When will the people band together over morals not religion? When will you stp fighting andtruly pull together? Never is the likely answer as long as corporations are in control and people are disregarded in the name of making money. What will you do when there are no more people?

That's not a threat by the way, there is no cat conspiracy to rise up and take over the world. Damn your oppsible thumbs!

Airport Scans

You humans crack me up especially the Americans. You have such a phobia about nakedness. We're all born that way fur or no fur. Sure I don't wear clothes and can't imagine having to, but it seems to me I'd rather be scanned and safe rather than blown up in a plane. Of course I'd never get on a plane willingly and have never had the desire to fly, but if I had to scan away. I've got nothing to hide. If my naked picture gets looked at by some security drone, it's better than a strip search with a rubber glove!

Alone for three days...sort of

Mom and Dad left to go to some comic convention and left us cats alone. Maggie kept hogging the computer and Bengal wouldn't get out of my favorite window. I did manage to wrestle the television remote so I could watch hours of Doctor Who on the BBC. Then the best thing ever! Grandma and Grandpa came over and gave us WET food!!! I love them. Maggie hissed at Grandma for not being mom. She's so stupid some times.

Glee

I think Glee may have "jumped the shark" as you humans say. Last year it had lots of great plots with great music accompanying it. This year it's all fluff and no story at all. The slide started with the Britney Spears episode. Yawn. It's true I don't really care about Britney Spears, I mean I would probably go to a concert if I got free tickets (and they let cats in) but I'm not buying any of her songs. That said, what was the real point of that episode? Did the plot further anymore? It was just a sad excuse to promote Ms. Spears. I wonder who she paid off...hmmm.

So last night I was all excited about the Rocky Horror episode because I LOVE Rocky Horror but it was just ho hum blah. Come on, Mercedes as Dr. Frankenfurter. As If! It'd have been more edgy if they got one of the boys to play Frankenfurter. I know they were supposed to be adapting it for high school but they could get a scantily clad boy for once. I did like the sly use of the word "sensational" in place of "trans-sexual". Nicely done.

The original still rocks more. The end.

Security guards at the library

We've had: The nineteen year old kid who played DDR with the teens and had a picture of himself drinking out of a whiskey bottle on his myspace page.

The lunch lady

The pregnant lady who spent all of her time in the bathroom throwing up.

The racist lady from the Eastern bloc who told a woman she wasn't fit to have children and doubted the father of the child was still around.

The depressed guy whose wife just died. He speculated that her sister poisoned her. We didn't want him around with a gun.

Grandpa who gave a guy five dollars not to bug people in the library for money. In return he made the guy give up a (stolen?) sander he was trying to sell.