YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ

It seems that my moods and feelings are drastically influenced by the books I read at a certain time. At the moment at work i am re-reading Catch-22, thus am becoming more and more cynical about the banality of my working life. It seems that there is a direct correlation between the bureaucracy of Yossarian's plight and my everyday struggle within this office.

After many years of holding onto the belief that I am constantly losing grip on my sanity, and at some times completely insane, my experience here has made me realise that maybe I, like Yossarian, am actually the only one here who is still sane. As by the Catch-22 rule, I would need to be in order to realise the insanity of it all.

Anyway, these constant forays into Joesph Heller's vision of complete idiocy + a bit of extra stress at work has begun to have a profound effect on me, to the point that i have taken up smoking agin after 5 weeks of giving up. Seems good old stressed Chris needs that crutch to fall back on, maybe cause it seems that no matter how much work i do, my generals keep raising the amount of missions i need to fly in order to get my release to be able to leave this war known as working in an office.

To combat this, on the other side of the coin, at home i am reading "Street Gang", which is a biography on the creation of Sesame St, a book which i am thoroughly enjoying and am reading in the smallest increments possible so i don't finish it too soon, and start reading some other depressive book that may just push me of the edge.

In closing, both Yossarian and Jim Henson are huge idols of mine. One because I think like him and feel like I almost know him, the other cause over all these years he has helped me escape and enjoy life away from the almost excessive over thinking thought that seem to clog my mind.

Book wank now over!

Also, happy 20th birthday to both "The Simpsons" and "Pretty Hate Machine". Probs the greatest cartoon and the greatest album ever created.