Tuesday, October 31, 2006

OK, I'm pissed

I just stay so mad all the time. I'm pissed off because we let Republicans lie to us. Bush says the economy is great, and that's true for his billionaire constituents. But I got my property tax bill this month and it's scarier than anything I'll see on Halloween. For the first time, I'll have to pay it with a credit card. This great economy has me on the ropes financially. I'm cancelling magazine subscriptions just to get by! There's a little light at the end of the tunnel - I'll pay my car off in about three months. I'm pissed off because our Republican governor is telling us what a great job he's done on education, but the schools here are so bad and so unsafe, we've been homeschooling for 8 years now. So I pay sky-high taxes for schools so bad we won't use them. Yeah, that pisses me off. And it pisses me off that I live in Texas, land of the "rape-my-sister" Republicans. I call them that because Dick Cheney or W. could come to their house, rape their sister right in front of them, and they'd still vote Republican. I mean, the Republicans have already raped and pillaged our federal budget, raped and pillaged Iraq and Afghanistan (in the name of freedom, no less), raped and pillaged the Constitution, but hey, Bill Clinton got a blow job in the Oval Office, so they can never vote for a Democrat again. And I'm pissed because, for the first time, I'm teaching methodology to other teachers. I'm qualified, motivated, and really good at it, but I've got this student who's decided to be pissed off, too, so she's miserable and she's making damn sure I'm miserable, too. Talk about a turd in a punch bowl. And, secretly, I'm still a little pissed that my kid got into Rice University as a National Merit Scholar, then went down there and just plain old bombed. Lost opportunity of a lifetime on his part; lost $20 grand that I'll be paying for the next three years.
Well, I'm being paged. What the hell, that pisses me off, too.