The first major story of injustice that I can remember is the Rodney King verdict.* I was at home by myself when the verdicts were announced, and my parents came home not long after and found me in tears. That was April 29, 1992, and I was almost 15 - the time in a relatively sheltered White girl's life when her thoughts turn to social issues.

I was ( Read more... )

So Sunday I took half an Ativan at bedtime, as I said. Slept like a rock. Monday night I pondered whether I should do so again, and Himself said he thought I should - not that I should take it every night, but as I was still feeling the dad's-hospice-anniversary tension, it wouldn't hurt to ensure another night of good sleep. And I took the Ativan ( Read more... )

1. Are you an essential worker? I am not, but my work can be done entirely from my home, so thank god I'm still working (because Himself has been between jobs since March 4; new gig starts Thursday).

2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started? About five, one of which was a glass of wine (standing in for all four cups) at seder ( Read more... )

I've been working from home since March 12, but for the first week (March 16-20) we kept sending the prince to day care, because it was open and they didn't have clusters of more than 10 people and the slight veneer of normalcy was good for all three of us. We had some anxiety about it, but. (It was the only place he was going, and I wasn't going ( Read more... )

I don't mean to be away for that long at a time. I think the issue is actually that I seldom use my laptop at home anymore - I'm on my work laptop at work or when I'm working from home, and when I'm at home not working, I get my internets on my phone, where it's harder to post to DW and much easier to post to Facebook or Twitter. (I'm on the work ( Read more... )

A childhood friend of mine did a PhD on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and architecture and spent some time learning Yucatec - so I forwarded her the RAICES Texas volunteer-seeking message where they need people who can translate indigenous languages. She may not be able to do much herself, but in turn she may know people who can help more ( Read more... )

Wow, friends and family, some of you have friends who are real assholes.

Like many of us, I've been suffering from rage-and-despair fatigue for the past year and a half, and I have extremely limited confidence that voting (which I early-did on Sunday) will help worth a damn in the midterms or even, maybe, in 2020; it's great to reflect that the moral arc of history is long and bends toward justice, but I want to improve ( Read more... )

Carrie Fisher has died.

Can everyone else who hasn't already died please just keep still for five more days and maybe take an aspirin to be safe or something?

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