It is 10:03 am, and I am here at my 9 to 5, which oftentime feels like a 5 to 9. I've been at my place of employment for just about 5 years and to date, I feel like my intelligence quotient score has fallen by at least 30 points. Do you ever feel like you work with and around intellectual siphons -- people who drain every bit of wit and common sense you have by just being in their presence? It seems that is ALL i work around. I can NOT have an intellectual conversation which spurs healthy debate or dialogue UNLESS it is about America's Next Top Model. [side bar: do any of them top model broads get work after leaving that show?] By definition, to siphon means, "to convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon —often used with off" as per Webster's Dictionary. Well, these bastards have emptied what was left of my mental acumen, not because I actively engage in the "unscholarly" debate, but rather for a lack of actual discourse in which issues of substance are discussed; my mind has atrophied. Now let me also say that flippant discussion has merit as well, just not 100% of the time. I am one of the first persons to argue over who's the better MC - Biggie or Tupac. However, I can also discuss how the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's lawsuit will affect NYC educational policy. And I should not always have to hear things like crunchy cheese doodles go better with a ham & cheese sandwiches as opposed to puffy cheese doodles, or how playing along with WHEEL OF FORTUNE last night, you got all the answers correct, except the last one! [side bar: wouldn't that mean you STILL LOST?]
