What the?

So, I sit here at work on a Sunday, doing pretty much anything I can in this office without actually doing any work. It's strange. I had such great goals for the day.

First, I sleep in. It's the weekend and the only time I can sleep and not worry about an alarm clock, so I always take advantage of it.

Second, I go to my favorite coffee shop for a coffee and an egg sandwich. Yummy weekend treat.

Third, I go to yoga. Feeling great! And it's only lunch time!

Fourth, I make a healthy lunch choice with a fruit smoothie and a salad. I am sooo on a roll.

Fifth, I come into work. I am alert (non sleep deprived), focused (yoga), nourished (both with comfort food and nutritious options) and ready to get a head start on the week so I actually accomplish goals in my future.

And what results? Well, I'm very up to date on my celebrity gossip. I got a little weepy over a great article about a father and daughter that read aloud each night for over 3,000 nights. I'm getting in a blog entry for my blog that absolutely nobody reads. Work? Perhaps about 15% of the way through my goals for the day and I'm already contemplating just heading home.

Ugh, such a great start with such terrible follow through. Maybe that'll be my goal for next week...

Ok, so here's where I start talking about stuff.

Many of you probably know about the controversy surrounding Anne Coulter's recent visit to Canada. She cancelled an appearance at U of O because of dangerous 'thugs' who were protesting her views. Now, I'm not the one that told a 17 year old Muslim girl to 'ride a camel', nor am I one of the people who caused so much 'danger' outside of the venue, but here's my thought:

Ann Coulter, and other extreme right wingers like her, enjoy causing turmoil and controversy. They do it to excite the population and cause others with those views to get riled up and rise up to fight. I think they're a small percentage with a mighty voice. Those that lean left are often not united (enough) in terms of political positions to have such a mighty voice. In fact, I think what draws people to the left is this very freedom of opinion (we differ, and it's OK for us to differ).

I, for one, would likely not be lining up to see her speak. (In fact, the person who posted on a facebook site saying they would like to "dip her in gravy and lock her in a room with a wolverine high on angel dust" made me laugh and laugh and laugh..) but, she should have been able to speak. If, in fact, it was the protesters who prevented her speech, it's embarrassing. It's the extreme of the left fighting the extreme of the right (neither of whom properly represent the Canadian people).

BUT... was it the protesters?? There are reports out there that seem to indicate that it was Coulter's own people who did the cancelling.... that the timeline itself shows that she had no intention of speaking long before the protesters showed up. Also, that the numbers and the extremism of the protesting was vastly over estimated/exaggerated. What is clear is that the cancellation has caused media attention - people like me are talking about it, where I would have ignored her visit completely otherwise (except for the camel thing, that's just too much). It also fed in perfectly to her Calgary audience the following evening.

As Lainey would say, my smutty sense is tingling...

So, it's not that I think anyone is really reading this, but I hope that one day (when I'm independently wealthy) and tons of people read my stuff, you'll all go back and read these early posts. Like I did when I discovered Waiter Rant. I wasted like three days at work reading all those back posts.

Now that guy has a schtick - a waiter ranting about customers and other parts of the job. As a former server myself, I could definitely relate - that drew me in. This once again brings up the topic of a schtick, I can't help but think I need one - you know, to draw people in. So you readers (who are back reading) are smirking, because you are from the future and know what my schtick is.

I, unfortunately, am still trying to figure out what I want to talk about and how I'll parlay that into independent wealth..

For now the best I have is just talking about stuff and telling you things (complex plan, I know). At this point I'm hoping it turns into a cross of John Stewart, Lainey Gossip and the Fug Girls. We'll just have see how this plan goes. (Is 'wish me luck' going to become a thing?)

...I'm about to publish for the first time! I am not going to lie (uh, today - or more specifically, in this upcoming sentence), I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while. So, I know my many, many readers are wondering why I didn't? It's because I didn't have a schtick.

I have absolutely nothing to write about.

There's plenty "I'm a lawyer I hate my job" blogs out there. And really, I don't think I hate my job more than the next guy, certainly not enough to rant about it every day. I have good days and shitty days, just like every other person who must work for a living. Plus, in the grand scheme of things, I make some decent coin. Not really in relation to other lawyers, but in relation to the average income - so who am I to complain? (please don't remind me of this on days I complain).

So why now? I think it's because I have a secret dream that my blog goes viral and I make tons of money off of just saying stuff I think thus allowing me to quit my job and live the dream of independent wealth. The dream that allows me to cease all use of alarm clocks and mix caesar's for breakfast every morning. I'm about 82% sure this will happen to me. But I'm 100% sure it will not happen if I don't write this freakin blog already.

So seriously folks, here goes... (wish me luck.)