Its the end of the world as we know it

It is over. The mad frenzy of creativity and trying to please crowds is over. The neverending patience and belief in the greater good is over. Ok, so this can also be applied to the chaos in PR… but no, I am speaking of the bloody, messy job of doing activities for work. I’ve been doing so for 5 years. I have tried bringing people to give speeches to see if minds get unlocked, but no… I have tried happy pretty scenographies that takes you back to childhood, but no… And now I tried to make them connect with nature and their roots… but no… I saw a sand castle being tripped by loose horses… That’s how I can describe everything. For 2 weeks I took care of plants that were completely ignored by 95% of the people that was to take them home. A complete afternoon agenda was clamped into 30minutes because of the delays that music caused, and then the delays of the small group that wanted music to go on forever. Invitations that clearly established a time were ignored, as most people arrived just before midday (same people that dared to say that there had been no activities in the morning, that it all had been bad and boring). I watched as the hosts that wanted so much control to show off actually lost that control, people didn’t respond to them, and the attempts to give direction to their messes by my answering questions were ignored. Soooo… I don’t know if the activity was successful because I had a mental plan and it all went downhill. Maybe it was not perceived by people, maybe I am oversensitive… Too many maybes for my taste. I just know that I am doing nothing else for this people. My office is closed for activities. From now on, work or nothing. No one pays me the bad experiences which turned into common daily moments for the last 3 weeks.

In other news, this island is in chaos and tension is everywhere. Answers about payday are hair raising. For me, no payday from May 1 to June 30 means 2 months of unpaid mortgage, unpaid water, unpaid contractor, unpaid debts that usually leaves me in $0.50… So… The forecast is dark, very dark… The seven years of thin cows are in all their glory. Gotta win the loto and get away…

10-4


That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, b
irds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs,
don’t misserve your own needs.
Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no.
Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height.
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
in a government for hire and a combat site.
Left her, wasn’t coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop.
Look at that low plane!
Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it’ll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture
and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.


It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine.


Six o’clock - TV hour.
Don’t get caught in foreign tower.
Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn.
Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate.
Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down.
Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier.
Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.


It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine.


The other night I tripped
a nice continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev,
Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake,
jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine...fine...
(It’s time I had some time alone)

-REM, Its the end of the world as we know it