The Road to Farley is Less Traveled

Don't get me wrong, I am blessed to have a stable job that provides a comfortable salary, benefits, challenges to keep me on my toes, and a somewhat flexible work schedule. Additionally, knock on wood, I am blessed with a pretty good immune system so I rarely suffer from colds, the flu, or other ailments that keep me away from the office. While I do find it very easy to use up all my vacation days, I am always left with more sick days at the end of the year than I am allowed to carryover. When I woke up at 5:15 this morning and was hoofing it around the block with Bailey, I seemed even more tired than normal. Now, this was sort of odd because I had actually gone to bed at 9 p.m. last night. Who knows, maybe I've got some freakish system where I function best with only between 5-6 hours of sleep (my usual). I vaguely remembered that I had NO meetings scheduled for today. Therefore, with a huge project looming that will keep me up nights and weekends, I zipped off an e-mail to ...

We are a full eight months to the presidential election, and I have already had it up to here with the negative campaigning, political posturing, and name calling. The latest items to irk me: Rick Santorum calls President Obama a "snob" for having the audacity to think that every American should be able to go to college. Rush Limbaugh calls a Georgetown college student a slut and suggests she posts her sexual encounters on the Internet for everyone to watch simply because she expects that her health insurance should cover contraception. Mitt Romney states he doesn't care about poor people. A Congressional hearing to discuss whether contraceptives should be included in health care coverage does not include any women. News reports circulate that Girl Scout cookie sales are funding abortions. The Susan Komen Foundation pulls funding to Planned Parenthood then restores it after a huge backlash. I could go on and on. It's insane. I like to think that I am a pretty...