Meaningless...

Today it seems like the writer of Ecclesiastes had it right -- "meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless."

Work today is more of the same running around in circles trying to get ahead of the deadline we've already missed. Proposal madness continues - it's due tomorrow. Kate has passed freaking out and gone straight to self-pity + witchiness mode of "No one is helping me like they are supposed to be so this can just go to hell." While, of course, still trying to scramble around and get stuff done -- while also being irritated with me that I got pulled back to my other project to help out and so haven't been able to help her. Not that there was a ton I could do -- I was essentially her secretary doing document formatting. I just don't see why she can't do that while she edits and proofreads. But we've already established that I clearly don't get it when it comes to proposals.

The project I am working on just seems like all we do is re-do and re-do and re-do the things I thought we finished yesterday but turns out x didn't work quite right so we're back to the beginning. AGAIN. Totally un-motivational.

The intern who I had been assigned to have help out with all the stuff that I am not getting done while trying to help on this other project got taken and put on something else and no one bothered to tell me until I happened to ask her for a status. Communication would be nice. I don't care one way or the other about her helping me...but if I have to end up doing this stuff myself it'd be nice to KNOW...as opposed to just going on thinking it's being done and then missing yet another deadline.

The House passed the stemcell bill, which is just amazing to me. Seems like no one in politics actually considers the repercussions of their decisions. They wander around rambling about how they're standing up for the "minorities" of people who have diabetes and so forth...but then they don't actually read the research that shows that adult stem cells are actually more useful to hoping to find a cure for these diseases -- but no, we can't focus on that. We can't focus on doing something that would benefit an unpopular minority (like oh say the Christian community.)

And on and on and on.

On the positive side, the Georgia Grand Jury has indicted the "runaway bride" so it looks like she may pay for her idiocy of making false reports and dorking around with the authorities. Hopefully (though I have to say I doubt it will) this will help people realize that there are consequences for actions and you need to think carefully before you act. We'll see. I imagine they'll settle out of court and she won't do jail time, but maybe it'll at least send a message.