{"id":306,"date":"2008-11-03T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/11\/where-to-put-that-election-anxiety.html"},"modified":"2008-11-03T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:32:31","slug":"where-to-put-that-election-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/11\/where-to-put-that-election-anxiety.html","title":{"rendered":"Where to Put that Election Anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Election Day Eve, tomorrow (hopefully) the next four years of this country\u2019s political future will be decided, and I\u2019m sitting here freaking out about cockroaches in my apartment.<br \/>\nIt all started this evening when I got home from work expecting a nice, quiet two hours of watching bad TV and cooking pasta with mozzarella cheese and broccoli. I was multitasking: chopping veggies, boiling water for pasta, and juggling my cell phone on a call to my gynecologist\u2019s office to get a prescription renewed at the last minute. Just as I finally reached a receptionist, a baby cockroach scurried across the countertop, past my broccoli, under the counter. I gasped and my first though was, <em>Can I take care of this roach and talk to the doctor at the same time? Because I really don\u2019t want to have to call them back<\/em>. Realizing this was, in fact, ridiculous, I hung up the phone, trapped the little bugger under a small Tupperware container while I reached into the cabinet to get the \u201cgreen\u201d roach killer spray. Nary a thought about not killing the poor guy, I lifted the Tupperware and sprayed him with the minty-smelling stuff til he met his maker. After disposing of the body I called the doctor\u2019s office back, went on a cleaning rampage, finished my cooking, wolfed down my sad pasta, and hopped on a downtown bus to the ID Project where we had a discussion about anxiety.<br \/>\n<em>Whew<\/em>.<br \/>\nI often tend to worry about little things that are easier to control, like obsessively cleaning my apartment to prevent cockroaches, perhaps displacing a little bit (a lot of) anxiety I have over big things, such as a really f**king important election, which will maybe (definitely) impact my life in a much more salient way than a couple of bugs ever will. But it\u2019s so much easier and more satisfying to spend time dwelling on things that you feel like you can fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Election Day Eve, tomorrow (hopefully) the next four years of this country\u2019s political future will be decided, and I\u2019m sitting here freaking out about cockroaches in my apartment. 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