It's that time of the year when things go a little wacky at work. All this gift giving, card sending and so on really boosts the volume, and with it, the work load. Love the work (without it there would be no job), the overtime is good (provides dough for some of the extras), but there is also a tired factor to put into the mix. I used to look forward to Christmas, now, more and more, I look forward to Christmas being over. No, I'm not in the "bah, humbug" mode, it just seems to have lost the joy it once held.
On another note, today on CNN Jim Bitterman in a story about fmr. Secretary of State Jim Baker going to Paris and then a few other European nations to help formulate a plan for the EU naysayers to save face on the Iraq issue with loan concessions/adjustments, made a statement something like this: "Jim Baker is there to assure the Europeans that the grownups are back in charge and the neo-Ayatollas are gone." What was that all about? Is he implying (or even explicitly stating) that the Bush administration is a bunch of immature demagogues and power mongers? Sounds like Mr. Bitterman has migrated from reporting to opining. So what else is new? Sounds like he is a "bitter man."