Enough already

You know how you always think you've hit bottom, and then another wave hits you and you discover whole new depths to the darkness that lurks? Remember how this kept occurring in 2008 and how we thought it'd be over in 2009?

It isn't. 

So much so that I'm inclined to think it wasn't 2008's fault. It was the Year of the Rat's fault. 

9 days to the Year of the Ox, and I'm so happy you're coming home because I really, really, really need you.

Let's go work in Peru

From Reuters: You can't fire me, I'm drunk!:

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent.

The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work.

The firing was excessive because even though Cayo was drunk, he did not offend or hurt anybody, Fernando Calle, one of the justices, said on Wednesday.

Calle said the court would not revise its decision, despite complaints from the government.

"It's not a good idea to relax rules at workplaces," said Labor Minister Jorge Villasante.

Celso Becerra, the administrative chief of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima, denounced the ruling.

"We've fired four workers for showing up drunk, and two of them were drivers," he said. "How can we allow a drunk to work who might run somebody over?"

Sunrise, sunset

I think one of my favorite movies of all time is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry. I guess because it's so memorable, but I think mostly because it's so well shaped to fit into your life that you think it's a movie that God made to tell you that it's alright.

Sure, you couldn't not cry, but in the end you feel just that little bit better. The movie shows you without doubt that no matter how bad it got, if you were given the option of erasing him/her from your memory, you wouldn't because it would mean letting go of every great memory, every great feeling, everytime you felt that this was the best day of your life.

And in the end, the only thought and feeling you could have walking away is that it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

- Alexander Pope