my general joyousness absent today

It's that time of year again. Jeopardy is preempted by (ugh) football. Rear windows require defrosting without a moment's notice. And the gloom of dusk hits you even before you begin your evening commute. Can't even watch a freeway sunset.

Anyhow, so I was having an especially bad day yesterday, realizing that adjust to the feeling of life passing me by in an entirely new campus. In college, I had my vantage points, and I wasn't yet a crusty graduate student. But here, people only get beautifuler and beautifuler, as I grow older and balder.

But on the bright side, you only really generate pithy commentaries on the human condition when you're not worrying about the bright side of everything. Content people don't pontificate, it's just the mildly discontent ones that generate... well, blogs.

So it was that I was talking to a good friend last night, when I solipcistically mentioned that happiness is a placebo, to which she replied, "Dev, you ARE depressed." So... I will take small comfort with the news that Kerry is doing better in the polls, that "Tanner on Tanner" doesn't entirely suck and there's hope yet for Cynthia Nixon's career, and that the verb "blandish" is now in my arsenal of words to occasionally misuse.

Alright, time for a fun day at the shop.