You… OFF MY PLANET!

my day of vacation:

1. all day in jammies
2. watch terrible movies all day
3. snuggle with your significant other while your dogs licks your arms incessantly in an effort to groom you…
4. your only outing of the day is to go to another movie…

i love my day of vacation…

~ciao

ever wonder where here is? or how the hell you got here? and most importantly…how do you get out of here?

i sit on the train, with music muffling the noise from the tracks…and watch people. everyone’s expression is varying degrees of sameness. no one is excited to go to work in the morning i suppose…but there are looks of downright despair on some faces…maybe even mine.

so why are we all here…gathered every morning on the same platform, seeing the same faces yet never interacting with anyone…dragging our feet to the final destination, knowing we’ll be sitting for the next 8-10 hours (some even more), only to drag ourselves back home to do it all over again tomorrow. oh right…mortgage, children, responsibilities.

so here we are then…this is adulthood. it’s depressing if you think about it. we used to get together with friends at a drop of a hat…if someone calls, we’ll be out the door before the conversation ends…but now, everyone refers to their PDA’s, blackberry, calendar, datebook, whatever it is that you carry. to get together, you have to be celebrating something…birthday, job, promotion, divorce, marriage, death…whatever. when did we lose that innocence…that spark for life? is it that we’re more self/family-centric now? or that we’re selfish with our time…the precious few moments we have between days of work to relax and do something we want to? ever realize that even in your “spare” time, you still don’t do what you need to? obligation, tasks, to do…what else is there? vacations aren’t vacations anymore…bring yoru laptop, your bb, your cell phone so your boss can always call you and ask you about something that you probably didn’t even work on. when has that become the norm?

we work for that better future…but when is it that we’ll realize that in working for the future, life as we want it is getting further away, and life as we’ve come to accept is settling in?

~ciao

so monday was the day of the march. apparently, you were suppose to march if you were an immigrant, and in support of this cause. the problem is…i searched high and low, and well, i’m not sure what the cause is…or maybe i’m not looking hard enough.

so i think everyone is saying, it’s not fair to penalize someone just because they want a better opportunity for themselves, and manage to come here illegally. shouldn’t be a felony. but then again, as an immigrant (legal one at that) i beg to differ.

isn’t it one thing to say, i come from a bad situation (say you’re being persecuted because of something) and i “escape” to the US for asylum. sure, they start illegal…but once they apply for asylum, and depending on where you hail from, asylum would be granted (like, a cuban baseball player for the yankees and his family?)
however…for the most part, people want to come to the US because they believe this is still the land of opportunities (and extraordinary high gas prices), and they apply for a greencard the legal way. or they apply for a work visa…or a student visa…whatever…then you wait your turn in the lottery and hope you get that little card that allows you to stay in this country beyond what your stay is suppose to be. What’s wrong with that? any legal immigrant family had to wait the same million years to get that greencard, then you wait that mandatory 5 years of residency to become a citizen. everything is on the up and up. it’s not instantaneous…and that’s suppose to be bad? how is that fair to me or my parents who waited out the million years, and became a citizen through (wait for it) LEGAL MEANS!!??

okay…then there’s a whole guest worker program that i don’t get, and doesn’t make sense…but then it was handed down by our resident idiot in the oval office, so that doesn’t surprise me. just because you work here, doesn’t mean you should get citizenship.

so what the hell is the real issue? why isn’t the legal way…the good way anymore? i’m not only suppose to pay out of my social security and taxes for that woman in bumblefuck who is on welfare and still can’t seem to stop popping out babies, i’m suppose to pay for some guy who cross the border in the trunk of a car…or that guy that hid in the cargo of a ship for 3 weeks? why? so they can make more money and send it back to their families? i sympathize with the cause…i do. i understand about wanting to give more to your family than you can possibly fathom in your own country…but c’mon…there’s a better way than to give everyone amnesty and offer them citizenship.

what kind of message does that send to the people who are waiting on line?

~ciao