Tunneling

[mallorys_camera]

Weather did the old autumnal bait and switch: Turned miserably cold and rainy over the weekend, so cold I had to rev up the furnace. Supposed to be “temporary” as in “next weekend it will be back up in the 70s,” but of course how temporary can it be? It’s fall, right? Gotta figure out some way to motivate myself: There’s a ton of useful stuff I could be doing around the house but when it gets this dark and this cold – and this is just like the beginning, this is nowhere near how cold and dark it’s gonna get – then it’s very hard for me to bring myself to do anything but cower under the covers and watch bad TV.

Very dark time for me.

Really, I feel like I’m falling down a tunnel.

Also I am not quite getting what’s motivating the Wall Street occupations and why the fact that the personal savings rate is up is driving the world into another Great Depression, but then I’m stupid that way.

Comments

[robby.livejournal.com]

Did you see the doctor? I'm studying internet medicine, in my spare time, and it seems that tetracycline is a good antibiotic for pneumonia.
Please don't fall into the chasm of despair.

[robby.livejournal.com]

If you're still alive, here's a link to a rationale behind Occupy Wall Steet.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44786808

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Wow. Can you say class warfare? Mr. Rogers thinks you can!

Gotta say that none of those reasons sound at all well thought out to me. I don't think it's fair to tax rich people more simply because they're rich. And the lack of jobs is completely due to globalization policies that go back over several administrations -- I mean, blame Clinton for the North America Free Trade Agreement. There are very different sustainability metrics for a service-based economy then there are for a manufacturing-based economy. Finally -- well, what can you say? How is the government supposed to pay for the freebies? And why should people be educated when there are no jobs?

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a doctor. I would have if I'd started coughing up anything in technicolor, but all my secretions were very clear so I figured whatever I had was viral -- it wouldn't have been helped by antibiotics.

I slept a lot. A lot. And that seems to have put me on the mend. I mean, I'm still sick but I'm much better than I was. Hoping by the end of the week to be strong enough to ride my bike again.

Despair... I'm kind of melancholic by nature. I mean, I'm constantly having to remind myself that things mean something. I think that despair mini-spiral was due as much to being sick and so not able to exercise and a spell of incredibly grey awful weather as it was to anything else. I could be the poster girl for Seasonal Affective Disorder, and exercise is really necessary for me -- if I don't work out every day, I'm much more prone to dark, moody shifts. That's part of what makes winter so tough for me -- I hate gyms and I can't ride my bike in the snow.

Thank you very much for your concern. I'm really touched and heartened by your kind thoughts.

speaking only for myself

[katestine.livejournal.com]

The theory is that if people (including corporation-people) pull money out of the system by saving it, that reduces the velocity of money and leads to deflation. This is the argument for stimulus.

Personally, while I don't think the theory is unsound, the issue the US has today is lack of confidence in the system's longevity and too much regulation/regulatory uncertainty killing job growth. Stimulus packages make the former worse and don't help the latter. The good news about the latter is there's (some) pent-up demand for job growth, so if the policy concerns were cleared up, there could be a quick(ish) bounceback in job growth.

Re: speaking only for myself

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Job creation... Obviously with the price of gas where it is they could get some real traction from Marcellus shale drilling. It's just amazing that they're dragging their feet on that one.

[sulphuroxide.livejournal.com]

is doing something better than doing nothing? being around others who feel the same way must be invigorating even if all they are doing is standing around.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

My social isolation is definitely part of my melancholy. I'm just not seeing a way out of that. The people who love me, whom I love -- damn! even the people who like me, whom I like -- don't live around here.

[sulphuroxide.livejournal.com]

yes! so ppl who "occupy" wall street, or the banking district in LA or wherever... they find solidarity in that and can feel like doing something even if they aren't, is what i mean.

i guess you arent gonna move anytime soon then, esp for your son's HS.