April 8, 2006

Spring Run Off

Filed under: Photography - Ric @ 3:45 pm

 

Spring Run Off
Spring Run Off

 

New Deal Writers

Filed under: Almanac - Ric @ 11:45 am

On this day in 1935, Congress approved the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the national works program created by President Franklin Roosevelt to relieve the economic hardship of the Great Depression. The program employed more than 8.5 million people on 1.4 million public projects before it was disbanded in 1943. It included the Federal Writers’ Project, which gave jobs to writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, May Swenson, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wright.

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Weekend Slump

Filed under: Reflections, Work - Ric @ 8:55 am

On the weekends we are supposed to recharge out batteries so we can charge back into the maelstrom of the corporate working world. But what happens when you battery charger is broken?

…my grumpiness and curmudgeon levels are an order of magnitude higher…

I’ve been home sick since Wednesday, the day of the “hazmat” excursion into the bio infected building. I don’t think the two are related, unless you count the fact that the activity was done in an unheated building in the middle of a blizzard. I am down with a cold or flu and am feeling miserable.

Part of the misery, however, cannot be attributed to the illness. Mind you my grumpiness and curmudgeon levels are an order of magnitude higher when I feel like crap, but I think it runs a little deeper. Spending time at home reminds me of how unhappy I am when I’m at work. Being sick in body gives time to reflect on the sickness of spirit that has taken root in my career. To paraphrase Huey Lewis, “I want a new drug….” Maybe this time away from the blackhole of time will let me come up with a better way to while away my time.

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