Aaahhh boredom

In order to assuage myself from the fact that I want to kill James Elkins right now (just trust me on that one) I'm posting a blurb I found in an issue of the Levee over the summer that both hit home and made me laugh. For those of you who don't know, The Levee is a satirical sort-of magazine that was started up in New Orleans a few years ago. Think the Onion, only specifically Gulf Coast related. Sometimes they get a little too silly for me, but every once in a while I love their stuff. This one, from what I believe was this year's August edition, was one of the latter, which is why it is currently staring at me from its place of honor on the back of my bookshelf:

from www.nolevee.com


New Stages of Acceptance
Zach Poche

The traditional five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - have been updated to accommodate New Orleanians and Gulf Coasters who have had to deal with the federal levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and now the massive Gulf oil spill that has changed and is changing lives every day. The new stages are:

- Disbelief
- Anger
- Sadness
- Acceptance
- Confusion. You subconsciously accepted what happened, but more oil kept spilling. It's like if your friend dies, then keeps getting more dead day by day.
- Back to anger
- Frustration
- Defeat
- Little more anger
- Ennui
- Hunger
- Sadness
- Frustration. The mind needs a release. It decided to watch a rerun of "The Cosby Show" to have some positive vibes, but it hits the wrong button on the remote and accidentally sees an oil-covered pelican on CNN.
- Anger. But not the furious type of anger - more like the type when a parent says, "(Sigh) I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in you."
- Horniness (Yes, the human mind is a strange thing)
- Reminiscence of the way things used to be.
- Boredom. Leading the id to need to waste time looking at random YouTube videos. Then it keeps seeing advertisements of how BP is helping the cleanup.
- Furious hatred
- Bloodlust. Directed solely at Tony Hayward.
- Forgiveness. For Tony Hayward. The super-ego overrules the conscious saying that no human deserves the torture that you would deliver if you could get that British bastard alone in a room for an hour or two.
- Anger. The mind reverses its position as the conscious tells the super-ego it can go help some old lady cross the street. If you ever meet Tony Hayward, God help him.
- Sleepiness.





Fantastic, right?


now enjoy this little gem: http://www.nolevee.com/?article=city_trying_to_kill_pothole




Katherine