My friend’s typical work day
90 emails to respond to
7-8 meetings to move through
3 fires to put out
5 staff people in crisis to support
7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It’s go, go, go
At 2 a.m. still awake
Her mind the Indy 500
But she knows what she needs
She reaches for her I-Pod
And listens to another Chomsky lecture
As he takes down U.S. power and ideology
She says he soothes her
![Noam](http://holditall.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/noam.jpg)
“… it’s all right, it’s all right”
As though it was waiting here for us, a decade on