They are redistricting the fuck out of Texas.
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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
For example, Austin, TX, is split across five or six congressional districts, so that Democrats can't get a majority in any of them.
What a push pull of emotions. Yay for DOMA and Prop 8 decisions. Boo for Voters Rights decision. Yay Wendie. Boo Texas.
They are redistributing the BLUE out of Texas.
I don't suppose there's any chance of the discrimination being so glaring and noxious that it gets a bunch of the parties responsible booted out come the next election in spite of the gerrymandering?
Nope. That's the whole point of it.
Tom and Lorenzo have gotten engaged over Twitter: [link]
So did anyone else in Chicago get an emergency alert for flooding on their iPhone this morning? It sounds just like the emergency broadcasting noise they play on the radio. I got one around 5:00 a.m. and I didn't know what the noise was and where it was coming from so I went back to sleep. Then I got one in my car-my iPhone played the noise over my car stereo while I was driving to work, so at first I thought I was hearing the emergency broadcast noise on the radio.
Then my boss asked me about it so I finally figured out what happened.
I was not ready to come into the office. Mother FUCKER. It's not ten yet.
I saw a therapist yesterday. My file now officially includes "not drugseeking, not suicidal". Technically that's all I needed from her, but she's willing to work with me on coping techniques--her specialty is people in chronic pain, of which I am a textbook example, it seems. Depressed because shit is depressing, prone to taking too big steps, failing, stopping. However the lights are on in my apartment. Only because of the drawing, though. Otherwise they'd be off like everyone else.
So, a couple times a month.
So did anyone else in Chicago get an emergency alert for flooding on their iPhone this morning?
A non-Buffista friend in Chicago posted about that on FB today. ("Avoid flooded areas," he said. "YOU THINK?!?")
ION, you know how I left work yesterday because I threw up AT WORK? Like, in the kitchen of our office? A grand total of 2 people asked me how I'm feeling today. Nice.
t edit Kinda don't feel bad AT ALL that they're not invited to the wedding.