I would like

I would like to temporarily resign from adulthood and not have to worry about things like budgets and scheduling and whether I even have a future in this career. I would like to build a blanket fort and hide in it and watch cartoons. I would like to eat pancakes and cupcakes and things that are not-vegetables*. I would like someone to buy me a stuffed animal or dollhouse furniture or a comic book.

But because I'm an adult and I don't have  a choice, I'm going to go and wash up and get dressed and go to work.

(*And actually, I think I need to dial back on the vegetables for a day or two, my digestion has not been happy)

A couple of things:

1. My bathroom sink drain is leaking. I don't know for sure if this is something I could fix with some putty or something or if the whole darn sink needs replacing. I admit I haven't had the energy to check, and the thought of replacing a sink, right after all the bad budget news, makes me twitch. (Maybe I ask for money for a new bathroom sink for Christmas). I haven't been using the sink which makes things more complicated.

2. One of my cousins is getting downsized in the new and ugly way some people are experiencing: the firm he works for is somehow justifying bringing in a bunch of H1B visa people and firing their long term workers (because they can pay the new workers less, doubtless). Cousin was told that he could quit now and forgo some benefits, or could stay for three months and train his replacement, after which time his job was gone*.

The good news is Cousin has a new job lined up and will be moving to it, but this kind of thing makes me twitch: couldn't they do a version of that to us? What will all these citizens do if they're downsized and can't find work? What happens to the quality of the work when you take people who have experience and familiarity and replace them with people with just three months of training?

it's bad times, people. Bad times. I wonder if we'll look back on this in 70 years and see it as being equally bad to the 1930s Depression.

(*It would be all I could do not to tell them to stick their job where the sun didn't shine, walk out of there, and never go back. I think Cousin is staying on the grounds that if he trains his replacement, maybe the customers of the company won't be hurt so badly)