what is labor day for, if not cleaning one’s home, throwing out acres of paperwork (or setting it aside to be shredded), and listening to political speeches?

actually, i’m really liking audible.com, which i signed up for last week after seeing an ad for them on salon.com, noting that free gifty swag for signup was a copy of “Jon Stewart’s America (The Audiobook).” which, i have to say, pretty funny. as noted previously, niqui <3 Jon Stewart.

today i’m listening to all the audible recordings of the RNC speeches, because i haven’t gotten around to it yet. it’s good background while sorting through old mail, because i can’t, say, read a book and listen to the audio at the same time, and so this makes me get off my ass and do the cleaning i’ve been putting off for ages. i decided saturday that my goal for the weekend was to make my desk usable once more, but so far — although i’ve tossed out a whole bag of junk, recycled more, and have a decent pile of to-be-shredded — i don’t think i’ve actually made much net progress. alas. such is the perpetual state of my life, i suppose.

oh well, back to laura bush. so far, i think cheney was the best speaker (yes, i’m listening out of order), but, you know, she’s not half bad either — though i really wish she’d quit saying “terra” for “terror.” so far, cheney’s the only one i’ve talked back to, which either speaks well of my comportment or poorly of my hope, i’m not sure which.