Thursday, February 05, 2009  On the Rage, and Its Dissipation
Ok, first of all, I apologize for poofing posts and then writing
about things vaguely as if you all read the poofed thing! That
is so annoying of me! See, but I needed to poof that post from a
few days ago because it just wasn't the sort of post I like to
have on this here blog. It was too specific, too unmeasured, too
too too.  But so anyway, here is a more measured version of the
things that have been making me mad at the world.  I think it's
a combination of three things. First, I think that the world in
general, particularly a world in which budget cuts are at the
forefront of the conversation, is just really depressing right
now. If the cut happens that will likely happen in my state with
this budget cycle, it will mean that the budget of my university
has been cut by a full 15% over the past two years, between the
money we've been made to give back (retroactive cuts) and the
money that is no longer there in the future (ongoing cuts). We
are