Headphones without Music

One of the girls on the team behind me is being extremely loud. She's trying to verify a client over the phone, and the client either doesn't get it, or is hard of hearing. It is situations like that that make me very glad I don't have to take phone calls any more. I can hear, even from a good 20 yards away, that she's getting really frustrated, but is trying not to let that frustration filter into her voice. It's a tricky game, over the phone, really. It's easy in writing, because you can voice your frustration without the client having to hear it.

Anyhow. I wish my iPod was charged so that I wouldn't have to listen to all of that nonsense. It makes me sympathetically frustrated for her, because I've been there and it sucks. Unfortunately, however, I did not have the forethought to plug my iPod in to charge when I got here this morning, because I didn't have the forethought to see what the battery power was before I turned it off last night. I really should pay more attention to these things so as to make my life easier.

So, I was thinking about the whole Elliot Sptizer thing today. Not that I really had a choice in the matter, considering that he has been the headline on every single news web site out there for the last four days. So it's not really that I WAS thinking about the situation on my own, it was more like I was being force fed the situation, and have furthermore decided to contemplate it more fully.

First of all. WHAT THE HELL? Seriously. What is wrong with people? I will never understand WHY in the WORLD someone would do something so stupid in the first place, especially when the person is a PUBLIC FIGURE!! Did Bill Clinton's debacle teach anyone anything? Maybe I'm just an overly rational person, or maybe Elliot Spitzer is just a complete idiot, but why wouldn't someone who is in a public office (even someone who isn't in public office) say to themselves "Maybe it's not such a good idea to hire a prostitute because it would be the end of my career and devastating to my family if the news were to get out." That, to me, just seems like common sense. But apparently, common sense is scarce in the political world.

This man had been planning to run for President, which makes me wonder what country he thought he was in. He must be new here, because any conscious citizen of the United States could tell you that it is not a good idea to hire a damn prostitute if you plan to run for President. Even if no one finds out about it right away. News flash: Your opponents have people dedicated to digging stuff like this up!

I honestly do not get it. I really don't. I probably never will. I just cannot even begin to fathom what would drive a person to make such an idiotic decision. Not only did Elliot Spitzer ruin his own life (he will forever be the disgraced ex-Governor of New York), but he ruined his family's lives as well. Sometimes I wonder if it is all just a big fat ruse (and by "wonder" I really mean desperately hope). I wonder if maybe there is some bigger force working behind all of these politicians. A force that decides whose turn it is to mess up and how, in order to keep things interesting. The Media, perhaps? I think that the Media is really just a direct benefactor of the plan. No, I wonder if there is something or someone bigger than that whom all of the Politicians know about (but naturally keep their mouths shut), who gets to say who is going to have the next big scandal, and what the scandal is going to be.

Sounds a lot like selling your soul to the Devil to become a politician. Sometimes I truly hope that is the case. Of course, I know that it is not, but somehow it would make it easier to contemplate such things. Unfortunately the simple truth of the matter is that these stupid men in power become morally bankrupt. Or, in some cases I'm sure, they are morally bankrupt to begin with. Either way, it's not cool. I don't want those kinds of people running my country. And you know me, I'm no conservative by any means. I believe that people should be free to do whatever they want. Who am I to tell someone how to live their life? But there has to be some sort of consciousness to it. People should ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be aware that their actions are going to affect the people around them. No man is an island...