Depressed?

So, it's true. I am a horrible blogger who completely forgot, and two days in a row at that, to update her blog. The truth is, it's been sort of a roller coaster week for me: grades, primaries, class, work, and I've not known how I felt about something at any one time in order to present a coherent blawg about it. I'm sorry, I am imperfect. I am not even perfect by the man standard, much less the higher level of perfection that women are held to. But that is neither here nor there.

Even my blog file is running perilously low on ideas (Special thanks to Collin for vetoing the Collin Schueler's Day Off idea). Perhaps it's a summer slump or maybe it's writer's block, but I really just have nothing to say (This is also true of my Perspectives piece. Sorry Rosie, I love you, it's next.) And so the question becomes, write nothing of substance to appease my adoring fans or wait until I'm inspired to write my usual high caliber of genius commentary on the world. Clearly I should have waited.

The problem with the world is that all that's really going on is Political. And when I talk about things that are Political, I get in trouble/my opinion gets mocked and dismissed by others who seem to somehow know better than I the unique issues facing this whole uniting the democratic party thing. (This is why there was no blog on Wednesday.) And when I turned, as I usually do when I'm stumped, to the headlines to search for a topic, I found nothing but depression.

I mean, look at the CNN.com headlines right now:

1. CNNMoney: Stocks drubbed on jobs and oil
2. CNNMoney: Oil skyrockets as dollar slides
3. Obama, Clinton meet privately
4. Obama's dodge miffs press corps
5. Ticker: Edwards says no to being Obama's VP
6. Commentary: It's time for more Hillary Clintons
7. Commentary: Is best woman for job a man?
8. WCVB: DA: Unhappy sex drove murder
9. Navy missile intercept successful
10. Rescuers scour sea for lost divers | Ten minutes of terror in a diving paradise
11. WABC: NYPD guards building after climbs
12. Unabomber kin finds new 'brother'
13. 800 gallons of gas stolen on video
14. Mother: 'How could his heart just stop?'
15. Time: Who will rule the new Internet?
16. iReport.com: Your not so perfect weddings
17. Why Kathie Lee Gifford forgave adultery
18. Ed McMahon explains his mortgage mess
19. Holyfield's 17-bathroom home in foreclosure

So first of all 3-7 are out, as they are about the election and I have an opinion with apparently little worth, and let's face it, there are already enough places on the internet where people feel it's alright to spend hours commenting on things written by people they have never even met or bothered to meet (even perhaps despite being in the same school or classes) and there will be no outside ramifications. In life, people censor and think before they speak, but on the internet, people have no fear and are willing to type, or post videos of, anything. And that's why we have blogs in the first place (and youtube).

1, 2, 13, 18, 19 are just depressing commentaries on our economy and there really isn't anything funny there. Poor little old McMahon on the streets, waiting for it to finally be his turn to answer the door to the Prize Patrol, is not something I want to think about, and I'm sure you don't either.

8, 9, 10, 14- nothing with murder or missile or "ten minutes of terror" can possibly be entertaining.

Even my old standby, fark.com, brings nothing but stories of fallen soldiers, dead animals, and sadness. Well, plus one story about KMart making abstinence sweatpants (seriously, they say "true love waits" on the butt).

So I have no other option but to conclude that world is suffering from a moderate case of depression. Television would have me believe that the cure is Paxil, or a similar mood altering substance. I'm not sure how we'd go about that, short of having everyone in the world take paxil, and really there are a number of people with more pressing needs- like housing, food, clothes. (Though, I guess if they were on Paxil they wouldn't care that they were helplessly under the thumb of a military junta who did not mind that its citizens were homeless and diseased.)

Should the world seek therapy? Perhaps someone in a smart little pantsuit... like Barbara Streisand in The Prince of Tides? Or I think maybe there's a Bette Midler movie where she's a therapist... I guess what the world needs is a Jew in a Pantsuit to set us straight. (Hillary had half that down at least. So close!)

But maybe what the world needs is a little vacation, just a week at the Beach to rejuvenate. God knows I do.