as usual, we spent our new year's eve with our friends and, as usual, it ended far before the strike of twelve. it's nice really because i'm able to be home in my warm house and blog in the new year. while all of that it interesting, i'm really writing to tell you this ...we went to see "up in the air" with george clooney. i'm not sure what i was expecting, but i certainly wasn't expecting it to end the way that it did. although, i guess it would have been safe to assume that any story almost completely focused on people losing their jobs couldn't really be all that uplifting.
so here we are in a movie about the failing economy, the increasing number of people losing their jobs and the burgeoning market for layoff specialists and in an incredibly ironic twist - ben bernanke was sitting a few rows in front of us. we all speculated how he must have been feeling given the fact that many people blame him for at least part of the problem - the real-life, super-huge problem, not the "conflict" part of the movie plot. i'm smart enough to know that bernanke is not the issue, but i still wonder what was going through his head.
he shouldn't have been that depressed though because he was doing his part to contribute to the economy. not only did he purchase a movie ticket, he was accompanied by no fewer than 4 secret service agents. his desire to see a movie on new year's eve certainly put some extra cash in those pockets - and probably cost the tax payers a pretty penny.
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