perspective

when you reach that last moment, when you've just got to finish packing and tidying and ensuring that everything you leave at home is something that you can live without... you're not supposed to find everything else interesting. right?

*ahem*

i slept brilliantly most of the night, woke up late, still exhausted. i'm almost done packing, and i think i've handled all the important stuff.

amusingly enough, i got a response today to a job application i sent months ago: "we don't have space to employ anyone not currently here". umm - i'm going to be "currently here" in two days. really?!

we just had dinner with pg's family, and by the time we left i was falling over. it's weird to say goodbye for two months and not to know if i'll be gone longer...

---be safe! this handy guide to stupid passwords is a must-read; thanks to nystire for sneaking it into my inbox.

---i don't know how i feel about mitt romney, but his attitude towards the middle east is surprisingly on target.

---i just came across an image doing the facebook rounds: "if income equality didn't exist... every american family would make $193,714.00 per year."

this... makes no sense. it has been demonstrated, time and again, that economic success only happens with capitalism. income inequality provides the incentive that causes the capitalist world's poor to have, on average, a higher standard of living. the fact that so much of "the 99%" have internet access from home already makes their arguments for income equality ridiculous.

what *should* be equal is the tax percentage that everyone pays. the poor should pay very little, and the rich very much, but no different in terms of percentage. that would be *fair*.