We don’t totally get along. No, this isn’t about the election even though it’s election day. This is about general politics, particularly ones that get in the way of you doing your job. I don’t get them.
I am trying to get a demo of Echology up for Friday. It goes in this space in the center of the computer science building. The building also contains offices and labs. Echology makes sounds. Sounds during work do not make people happy. I understand that…but they are soft, quiet sounds and the demo will be 15 minutes at the most.
Still, there are issues, I understand that, and we need to develop a “protocol” for how demos like Echology will be held in the atrium so that we do not upset a soul. This could run smoothly or not. In the end it all depends on the politics surrounding the situation and that aggravates me somewhat. I feel discouraged which is why I am writing here and not actually working on the installation.
Speaking of politics, I watched I Heart Huckabees again this weekend. Love that movie. Ok so it’s not really about politics…but it is in a way because in an existential mindset can you really apply yourself to a single campaign? The fact is – you will always be left wanting, you will always find something wrong and at the same time you will always just be.
OK so I can’t apply that to the larger national scale politics because some ugly things can happen when we don’t get a choice in campaign…but at the smaller, day to day life scale it can work.