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I am having one of those days when I hate everything and everybody around me; though I mostly hate my life.

I hate living with one who hates travelling. It's one of those activities that are fundamental to who I am.

I am therefore I'm everywhere.

A huge part of why I love the internet is that I am almost liberated from the burdens of the body and geography. I can move along places and among people as fast as my time, my bandwidth and my repetitive-stress syndrome allow.

That is, as long as I don't have my family around.

Ever since I came back from Austin, I have been made to pay for my absence. It's not even the guilt for I feel none. It's the whining, the complaining, the ressentment thrown my way for doing something that does not involve neither my kids nor their father. Of course, the animosity is escalating since tomorrow I leave for DC for the last commitment of the season.

We're not happy

Mommy wars? There are no “mommy wars” when it's your own family doing the attack. Most women could care less about what I do. It's my own family who make my work a horrendously painful process to the point of making any non-domestic work an oddysey. I time, space and quiet to write or code. I get very little of that these days. And since I waste so much time being interrupted, I have very little time for domesticity. So I am doubly “whipped” for not being the homemaker I used to be.

Being a working woman, and a mother? You just can't win.

A day in infamy, indeed. It's been three years since the first "Shock and Awe" carpet bombing of Iraq under the current president.

What does Bush have to say? Taking his father's chant to political alienation, "Don't worry. Be happy."

Problem is, more than half the country is very, very unhappy.

[via CNN.com - Bush: Iraq center of war on terror - Mar 20, 2006]:

"The situation in Iraq is still tense, and we're still seeing acts of sectarian violence and reprisal," Bush said in Washington. "Yet out of this crisis, we've also seen signs of a hopeful future."

While the president is upbeat about Iraq, a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll indicates Americans are more pessimistic about the war and where Iraq is headed.

In the survey, 41 percent of respondents said the prospect of a U.S. victory is unlikely or certain not to happen. In a 2003 poll, 1 percent was sure of a U.S. defeat, with 3 percent saying a U.S. victory was unlikely.

Most of the people questioned March 10 to 12 -- 55 percent -- thought Iraq was headed for civil war, while 40 percent said the country could emerge with a stable government.

WE (White Folks) HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH RACISM AND OUR BRAINS NEED WASHING

The ListeningConnect(tm) process means becoming diversity counselors for eachother. And encouraging each other to release our feelings and thoughts--however painful, negative or boring--while the listener remains relaxed, confident in us and keeps listening all the way through without advising, stopping our release by "comfort." When we discipline ourselves to tell our peer counselor everything we can remember from the earliest possible time in our lives about people with skin color other than pink. When we tell them the ugliest things we had to hear and release the terror and disappointment that came along with hearing that stuff, we do our own cutting-edge diversity taining. We find a free (no-cost, low-cost, affordable) way to brainwash ourselves. Truly our brains need washing. Racism is--colonization is--in the woodwork folks. It's in your crib and cradle. It's been there all along. Unfortunately you, like an alcoholic, don't feel you have a sickness. You bristle at the mere suggestion that you've been brutally programmed.
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