Feeling unmotivated

Today the boss is away, so I'm feeling pretty slack-@ss. And - d'oh! I just realized Edyta - the only other person who will be here today - is at an all-morning event! So glad I didn't wait for Starbucks for her!

Sigh...

I have to stop reading the stories about Heath Ledger. It is sad and tragic in it's timeliness, but really. Do we need minute-by-minute updates on the fact that NOTHING new has happened??

And don't even get me started on today's lack of respect for the deceased. I couldn't believe my eyes when one news channel showed the body bag being carried out of the building. OK, ok, I believe you, he's dead, you don't need to show me his corpse!

And then I see this today in WaPo's Style Section online:

Which cable-news yakker might want to consider a new line of work?

Fox News's John Gibson, who opened his Tuesday evening radio show with the famous "Brokeback" quote ("I wish I knew how to quit you"), then jibed, "Ehhh, well, he found out how to quit you!" Gibson called Ledger a "weirdo," kept joking about why he committed suicide (police say there's no evidence he did). By comparison, Courtney Hazlett's comment on MSNBC that "we've almost had a dress rehearsal for this, almost, with Owen Wilson" is merely tacky.

Seriously?

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Sigh again. Is it time to go home yet?