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Al took me to see THIS tonight and it was dope. It made me feel so many things! I was reading the bios of the perfomers and like 90% of them were like "so and so began training with their parent/grandparent in the art of ___" and then went on to this whole litany of study and mastery and years of performance and I'm just like drooling that these people devoted their entire life to these movements and skills and here I sit and get to just ENJOY it all! And I was kind of a dick about going. Just wasn't sure I could go because I thought I had to work really early tomorrow because my schedule annoyingly changed and I had totally forgotten we got tickets, so thank god for Alex because I obviously loved it. We are going to see the Magnetic Fields later this month! And to DC this weekend to visit with his parents. FUN!
I also got someone to cover my shift for tomorrow and it almost didn't work out and then IT DID, so yay, I get to participate in Day Without A Woman. I've been kinda checking out of reading the news so it just feels really important to me to engage in this way. So I guess I'll not work, wear red, buy nothing and call my reps about a million fucking things I'm pissed about. Ugh, always feels so awkward I really hate calling but whatever I'm always glad I did it. I don't know when I'll be able to read the news or get on Facebook again. I can kind of stomach the New Yorker. Mostly all this shit has been making me extremely angry and developing into this intense hate for a good 70% of my family members. I'll read about the latest ridiculous thing and be upset, naturally, then later be on Facebook and subjected to some idiotic defense of whatever issue and I kinda just lose it. I sometimes feel a genuine hate towards certain people in my family and am disgusted by their stupidity. I know it's wrong and I know I should be finding empathy and common ground but it feels like I'm yelling "2+2=4 GUYS COME ON, WE SETTLED THIS A LONG TIME AGO" and they're like "math was invented by terrorists" and I just want to fucking punch some fucking throats. Ok, sorry. See this is why I can't read the news or get on Facebook anymore.
Good things, hmmmm.... OH. Listened to the best podcast the other day, it was from On Being with Krista Tippett and she was interviewing Alain de Botton on an article he wrote that became the most popular article in the New York Times for 2016! And it wasn't about the election so that's pretty impressive. It's Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person. So read that and then listen to The True Hard Work of Love & Relationships. So good. It kind of just blows wide open all the ridiculous shit we expect from our partners and really puts this lens of pragmatism on things. Iiiiii am not the most pragmatic person, I will be the first to admit I am a dreamer, but I really really loved this. It just made me feel relieved. I don't know, I'm not explaining it well, I really want to re read and relisten and take notes and like be a serious student of this message because it struck a really deep chord with me. Ok, bedtime for this old lady.
I also got someone to cover my shift for tomorrow and it almost didn't work out and then IT DID, so yay, I get to participate in Day Without A Woman. I've been kinda checking out of reading the news so it just feels really important to me to engage in this way. So I guess I'll not work, wear red, buy nothing and call my reps about a million fucking things I'm pissed about. Ugh, always feels so awkward I really hate calling but whatever I'm always glad I did it. I don't know when I'll be able to read the news or get on Facebook again. I can kind of stomach the New Yorker. Mostly all this shit has been making me extremely angry and developing into this intense hate for a good 70% of my family members. I'll read about the latest ridiculous thing and be upset, naturally, then later be on Facebook and subjected to some idiotic defense of whatever issue and I kinda just lose it. I sometimes feel a genuine hate towards certain people in my family and am disgusted by their stupidity. I know it's wrong and I know I should be finding empathy and common ground but it feels like I'm yelling "2+2=4 GUYS COME ON, WE SETTLED THIS A LONG TIME AGO" and they're like "math was invented by terrorists" and I just want to fucking punch some fucking throats. Ok, sorry. See this is why I can't read the news or get on Facebook anymore.
Good things, hmmmm.... OH. Listened to the best podcast the other day, it was from On Being with Krista Tippett and she was interviewing Alain de Botton on an article he wrote that became the most popular article in the New York Times for 2016! And it wasn't about the election so that's pretty impressive. It's Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person. So read that and then listen to The True Hard Work of Love & Relationships. So good. It kind of just blows wide open all the ridiculous shit we expect from our partners and really puts this lens of pragmatism on things. Iiiiii am not the most pragmatic person, I will be the first to admit I am a dreamer, but I really really loved this. It just made me feel relieved. I don't know, I'm not explaining it well, I really want to re read and relisten and take notes and like be a serious student of this message because it struck a really deep chord with me. Ok, bedtime for this old lady.