Pink Moan

September 2nd, 2008 by Gnat

I just flew in from Austin and boy are my arms tired. Sorry, couldn’t resist that. Actually I arrived back in LA last night. My trip to Austin (Aug 27 - Sept 1) was SUPER fun and I’m still needing to catch up on sleep. Unfortunately I walked into a steaming pile of crap at work today, as my coworker is stalling on beginning a project that was supposed to already be rolled out. So now several of us have to go in and pick up his slack. I don’t know how much I’ll be able to blog this week, but here’s a theme I’ve been stewing on the last few days: disconnection. Sort of the feeling of experiencing life as an observer, rather than a bona fine member of the species. Detachment, but not necessarily by choice. Detachment by choice would make you a cool misanthrope like the anti-hero of Camus’s The Stranger, or James Dean’s broken and beautiful Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause. I think lately I feel more like Hamlet.

More later…