I was down in Ratlanta all day yesterday for work. Woke up at 5am, got home just a little before 10pm. I'm still kinda fried today. Flight back was supposed to leave at 7 but ended up delayed about 1 hour+ so I got to spend almost 3 quality hours at Hartsfield. Which wouldn't have been that bad -- there were no screaming babies nearby, I got something to eat and a tasty beverage, I had a book to read... Except. Except, all the TVs were tuned to CNN. Hoe. Lee. Shit. Wolf Blitzer, Lou Dobbs (don't get me started) and just the general inanity of it all. A couple of hours of that and I felt stupider and just seriously emotionally and morally demeaned by the whole thing. How can people listen to that drivel every day and not become lessened, diminished, just less worthwhile human beings? And, hell, that's just CNN. It's no wonder Fox News turns folks into frothing maniacs. I suppose if I'd been less exhausted I'd probably have been better able to just block the TVs out and read my book. But it go so I greeted the incessant PA announcements with silent relief as they at least drowned out the blather for a few moments.

Note to self: next time, bring iPod