Day of Mourning ....
My new definition of misery: living in DC, inside the Beltway even, on inauguration day for GB. Let me tell you - that frustration we all feel? It's magnified about a thousand times having to be here and watch it, watch the city shut down - 100 blocks of it - for this, this ... travesty. On the news the other morning, some brainless newscaster made a remark about how Inauguration Day would be an opportunity for the world to watch "democracy in action." If this obscenely expensive, outrageously smug and self-congratulatory display is truly the embodiment of democracy, we're all in deep trouble. Though I suppose it is, literally, a sign of democracy that the American populace is free to nominate and elect such a pompous fool. Rule by the majority (assuming this was that) certainly can be a race toward the bottom ....
Well, I shouldn't get started on this - can't tell you how many conversations I've had recently that have begun in this vein, but then ended because we're both just too full of frustrated, helpless anger to continue, and if we really got going there would be no end. So we wave our hands and say, aaah, I just can't talk about it, it makes me too angry. Sometimes denial/avoidance is the only way to cope!
At least I've left the city - even if only after most of it was over. My office, like most all businesses downtown, was shut today, so I visited Griggs in the morning, and then in the evening flew down to Florida to visit Bodie (oh god, how I love saying that: I can't describe the subversive thrill I get when I say that name to a "mundane"!). I suppose I should think happy horsey thoughts and read some nice B/D smut to get my mind off it....
Well, I shouldn't get started on this - can't tell you how many conversations I've had recently that have begun in this vein, but then ended because we're both just too full of frustrated, helpless anger to continue, and if we really got going there would be no end. So we wave our hands and say, aaah, I just can't talk about it, it makes me too angry. Sometimes denial/avoidance is the only way to cope!
At least I've left the city - even if only after most of it was over. My office, like most all businesses downtown, was shut today, so I visited Griggs in the morning, and then in the evening flew down to Florida to visit Bodie (oh god, how I love saying that: I can't describe the subversive thrill I get when I say that name to a "mundane"!). I suppose I should think happy horsey thoughts and read some nice B/D smut to get my mind off it....