Free Floating Anxiety

There's problems everywhere, the computer not working first thing in the morning and endless frustration over just about everything, headache in the corner over one eye. Heading off to the country on Tuesday, looking forward to getting away. The kids don't seem very interested. I'm right, says Sam, and I guess I don't blame them. They're teenagers and the city is full of opportunity. We are regularly falling behind; and I feel in the same place at the same time; consciousness wired to insult.

Nothing works, that's what's driving me crazy. The dads website has locked out all the administrators and not even Jeremy the web master can work out why, seeing as he also is locked out. There are other problems; shame guilt regret remorse kicks in bigtime sometimes; and I wonder why, why was I so damned stupid.

Been hanging out with Joyce a lot. We've been to see Becoming Jane, which we both enjoyed, loved the atmosphere, the English landscape, the colouring, the characteristation. The woman who played Jane, from the Devil Wears Prada, was great. Then we saw Woody Allen's Scoop yesterday; and it was just a pointless exercise; all the actors miscast and really, what was the bloody point of that? All that money it would have cost to make; and really it carried you nowhere and transformed you no how. It's another busy day, but the last day before the holidays. Yeeh Hah!!

THE BIGGER STORY:

WASHINGTON -- Discontent with President Bush, the war in Iraq and politicians in Washington is playing out in the dollars and cents of the 2008 presidential campaign, where fundraising by Democratic candidates has far outstripped that of Republicans so far this year.
A new AP-Ipsos poll lays out underlying trends: More voters are identifying themselves as Democrats; regard for the Democratic-controlled Congress is on the increase; and approval for the overall job that President Bush is doing and for his handling of the war in Iraq are stuck in the cellar.

While even Republican candidates have raised impressive amounts of cash, Democratic donors have been increasingly energized by dissatisfaction with the status quo and by the notion that their party has a shot at reclaiming the White House.