God Says You Should Work on Sundays

Tomorrow I wake up I have nothing to do.

Nothing - if you consider that my JOB is closed tomorrow, so I don't have to go to work.

I don't have a family.

I don't have a girl (at the moment - this should be remedied straight away)

And I have some friends here in Des Moines now, but none of them have called upon me to hang out tomorrow.

So - in all actuality, all I have to do tomorrow is...nothing.

I can wake up, get drunk, and go back to sleep again if I please.

And there are many who, in this situation, would do just that.

Tomorrow is Sunday. No matter what this blog post tells you. Yes - technically, today is Sunday, but I subscribe to what Tom Waits once said - "It's never the next day, until you've gone to sleep and wake back up again." And if this is true - I am 9 years old.

But what I'm getting at, in a round-about way, is that yes, God rested on the 7th day, and why should not I? For one reason and one reason only - when God made the world, it was perfect. What was not to be perfect at that time? It was the beginning of everything. We have yet to see perfection since then.

So - if the world was perfect, I too would rest on the 7th day. But the world is not perfect. Far from it. There is much work to be done. So no 7th day resting for me.

Tomorrow I will do many things. I will get in further touch with the Edwards campaign. I will write the manifesto I've been meaning to write to the 12 theatre companies across the nation who will make up the National Independent Theatre Community. I will try to find out why I have to pay the parking ticket I got last week. And I will write to you - the real democracy, the ones who exists to help yourself at the same time as helping others. The ones who understand the value of a day.

So - tomorrow - and every Sunday - we will work to make the world a better place. And once it is, we shall rest. And finally watch the Philadelphia Eagles win something meaningful, thank God.