I did not go to my needlefelting class. Or, I went and was there and feeling kinda out of sorts because I got up late and was rushing.

Then people started showing up. When I signed up for the class there were 4 people total. That would be manageable but some people decided the day of to come or brought a friend (I'm not sure) so there were 8 people taking the class, the owner, the instructor, her daughter, one of the women taking the class brought 1 daughter to take the class and 1 who was too little to leave at home, plus the owner and the instructor both brought their dogs.

It was chaos and everyone knew it was kind of chaotic. I got overwhelmed and anxious and was fighting back tears just from the anxiety so I found the owner told her I was leaving and she asked if I was okay. I'm going to go back this afternoon to get some assistance with my scarf which I totally messed up.

I don't think I can go watch the game with Will at a restaurant.

Monday I'm calling my shrink it see if he can adjust/increase the anxiety medication. It's getting to the point where I can't deal with people except in extremely small groups,

askye, I'm so sorry. Anxiety is a total bitch. I'm glad they're going to credit you for the class.

Yeah Katy (the owner) is awesome. I'm going to go back later today so she can help me fix the current problem with my scarf. I hate feeling so freaking fragile.

If they cannot believe that Obama is engaged in some secret plan to oppress them later, what reason do they have for voting against him? I mean really, you would prefer to have Romney as President? When Romney (coincidentally) is much more likely to have a secret plan to screw all of us because he has been so obtuse about all of his plans?

There likely is no objective reason to vote against him (and while I am partisan, I am actually to the left of Obama) - he has adopted many Republican policies (at least they were Republican policies before the GOP went off the deep end). Democratic policies from the 1970s are not even brought up in political discourse anymore.

I think he's trying to spoil me, and I think I might let him.

I approve! You bringing him to da courtyard tomorrow for inspection, er, approval, er, us to meet him/him to meet us?

Sean, I'm sorry. How's your back doing?

I cannot even handle the level of racist-ass Othering that's going on in this election.

I was foolish and asked for a list. This is what I got:

I refuse to live in a socialist nation. That is NOT why my father fought and nearly died in Iwo Jima!

Also, my husband did not serve in Viet Nam so we could become a socialist county with a president who won't even salute the flag!

Mind you, he is getting VA benefits, and she Medicaid.

And Obama salutes the flag. Omnis, it isn't rational. She has no idea what's really going on. I repeat, don't feed the energy creature.

Where is this flag thing coming from? Someone threw that at me too, and when I asked for clarification, I didn't get any.

It might come from this [link] or this [link]

or just people making shit up.

I repeat, don't feed the energy creature.

Yup. When you do that -- in this instance, asking for a list -- you give them EXACTLY what they want, which is an opportunity to get their self-righteous rant on. Don't play in to that.