I want his job!

I have watched CBS 60 Minutes for much of my life. I was born in 1978 so that life has included Andy Rooney. His retirement, or slowing down as he will still be observing and still writing, is not a shock. The man is 92. For the rest of us that is long past the retirement age and therefore, it is a well-earned slowdown.

Over the years, he has made several observations about modern life from consumer goods to driving to why we do things. Usually these weren't that astounding. They were things we ourselves may have thought of in passing. He even said in his last regular opinion piece that he wasn't making groundbreaking observations. That there are no original thoughts in the world. He was just writing things down.

But I have to thank Mr. Rooney all the same. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon as well because I never thought he was being grouchy. I thought he was just opinionated. And I like to think that many of bloggers have inherited something from him. We like to observe the world around us and find strange things to write about. Sometimes, it is doors. Sometimes, its politicians. But in all, we aren't afraid to talk about something even if it is obscure, irrelevant or pithy. Because as thinkers, writers and humans, we already think about these things. It's only fair that we write them down. He showed that one could make a career out of observing the world and writing about. Even if he does sound like he's complaining.

While watching last night, I couldn't help but say "I want his job!". I truly do. I know that is pretty difficult feat and a an even tougher act to follow. Even when considering that women do not seem to make very good complainers, at least, not publicly. We're too often considered whiners or worse, bitches, ungrateful skanks, etc. Men are cantankerous or curmudgeons. Women, when we deviate from the norm and/or expected, are usually something negative and derogatory. So I know to have his job would be difficult as a woman.

I'd still like to have it.

Been up, Been down. Been Here.

When I die, I want THAT on my tombstone.

It has been a rough 14 months in Meville. I have finished college. I have been tossed back in the mental hospital. And I have lost my father. He passed away in July. Of 2011. I realize I have to post the year because I last posted anything back in July of 2010.

But no matter. I'm here now.

Since then not much has really happened. I mean look at the news and compare. We're still dealing with Greece and it's debt problems. The job market still blows. The GOP is still treating Obama like he's being uppity. Michele Bachmann stills stupid things whilst Sarah Palin is irrelevant.

One of the few things that seems to be resolving is the Amanda Knox case in Italy. She convicted along with her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of the murder of Meredith Kercher in November, 2007. She and her boyfriend were arrested, tried and found guilty. Much of the evidence they were convicted has been tossed out during the subsequent appeal. The evidnece was the DNA-based evidence. It turns out that there was too little on the supposed murder weapon, a knife, to retest. Sucks to the the Italian police not to mention the prosecutor.

After the lengthy appeal, we are waiting to hear a verdict. Many Americans are hoping Miss Knox gets a much better verdict than she did during the original trial. But at this point as much as the news corps would have you believe, we are waiting and we do not know when this will come back.