View From the Bushes

I'm not sure if it's the weather, or job-fatique, or something else, but I've been really enervated all week. I think I'm starting to come out of it, but I'm still moving really slow. Hopefully the weekend will help reinvigorate me, though I probably shouldn't count on it. I generally feel worse after the weekend. Which I guess sort of makes me like the guy on Office Space:

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.

I don't think every single day is worse than the day before, but sometimes I fear that every day I'm less motivated than I was the day before.

In any case, I have managed to get some reading done recently. I read "A Tale of Two Cities" for the first time, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say. I also read "Amusing Ourselves to Death." Which, I'm sad to say, was the first book which left me less convinced of its premise after I read it, than before. I also started a new fantasy series, "The Runelords by David Farland. I finished the first book last night. Overall I enjoyed it, though it had plenty of weaknesses, but after reading the first two books I mentioned (and before that, "The Closing of the American Mind") I was in the mood for something pulpy, and this certainly fits the bill.

The premise of the world is that by using magical runes you can transfer one person's attribute to another. So you have Runelords (thus the name of the book) who could have the brawn of 20, the grace of 15, the hearing of 10, the stamina of 20, etc. Of course the people who give these "endowments" are left fairly helpless. Which leads to some interesting reprecussions, situations where it's easier for an enemy to kill a Runelord's "Dedicates" than to kill the Runelord himself. (Most of my complaints about the book stem from the fuzzy math of this process. Basically everyone you meet has at least a half dozen endowments.)

In any case, that's it for today, I had a whole other subject I was going to get into, but I better save it. Content has been scarce recently and I need to husband what I have.

Hoping that the weekend will heal me
Ross