Rebel Prince

I have an unwritten rule to not blog about my workplace, just for fear it’ll somehow come back to haunt me, but let me just say these past few days back at work have been a rude re-awakening. Ugh. It’s to be expected, but still. Not only do I have shelves slowly filling with documents that have accumulated since last month, all of which I have to edit, but it’s performance evaluation time again, and boy, it is not fun writing them. Rating your own work is one thing; having to evaluate others—apparently part of the “managing” in my job title—is quite another beast.

While I’m whining: as much as I love this time of year—well, whenever I use that phrase “this time of year,” I guess I really mean the holidays, Halloween to New Year’s, not the post-holiday doldrums—I can’t wait until it stays light out long enough for me to leave the office in daylight. All this late-afternoon darkness is starting to affect me. I don’t know, going home when it’s dark makes me feel like I’ve been at work forever. And so with that, I am outta here. Yabba-dabba-doo.

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Interesting article in USA Today—no, it’s a periodical not on my usual reading list, but this morning I briefly scanned the front page of a copy in the hands of a fellow Metro rider—on the state of gay civil unions in Vermont, “mostly affairs of the heart”:

Vermont statistics indicate that gay marriage has a limited appeal, to couples both in and out of the state. The annual number of civil unions has dropped steadily after the first year. Just half the gay households in the state have taken advantage of the law.

Vermont also provides a glimpse of how society reacts to gay marriage. The strong opposition to civil unions that initially resulted from the law has dissipated as it has become clear what gay unions are and what they are not. And the predicted “gay invasion” of the state by outsiders seeking legal haven has failed to materialize.

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