I'm hanging out with Nora and Smonster! Or well, will be in a moment when smonster gets here! And eating delicious crepes and beer.

Wow, that sounds awesome.

Mini F2F! Always awesome.

I am back from the Gwar concert! Well, I've been back for five hours, but I'm old, so I slept. We had a great time. Gwar is ludicrous and gross and funny and really good at being a heavy metal band, which probably explains why they've been around for 30 years. They ended the show with a eulogy to their fallen band member Dave Brockie (Oderous Ungerus). I think they made a wise decision, not to just bring in new members and move on, but to incorporate Brockie's sudden death into the story of Gwar and let the band and the audience mourn and move on together. I think it makes it easier for the audience to accept the new members, too. Although some of them of course won't, none of the haters seemed to be there last night. It was a happy smiling slime-soaked crowd of scumbags that left the venue. My sister and I stayed far enough back to avoid the slime. We are old. This unfortunately meant I didn't get any good pictures. Sorry.

Sounds like fun Zen. I made a few dumb mistakes but mostly from being tired. My supervisor almost cost me a sale. I don't know how to address the issue but I told the custom to fill out the survey.

He can beasily very abrasive and the customer was a fathere and daughter. The daughter was waffling but I explained why the old MacBook pro would be more verify for her over the Air. And my sup comes over and just starts talking and didn't ask if I needed help or what was going on and ca used confusion. So the daugh yet wentry back to waffling and once my sup left the customer said "your coworker shouldn't have tried to tank your sale. You should tell your supervisor. "

AND so I'll talk about something other than work I've started a new collage. I also found out my holier than thou cousin K on Mom's side is being horrible. Her sister J's oldest C has come out as trans and is in counseling right now as part of the transition. K called C an abomination.

Ugh. I hope even if the aunt K is being awful, the parents are supportive of C.

I am typing to you from the sky! It's like magic. I never pay for In flight wifi but had a coupon code that I think had to be used by the end of the year.

That's pretty cool, meara.

It was! And now I'm in a very expensive cab on my way home. It's late and cold and I decided to splurge. I also discovered that the very smelly vanilla hand sanitizer in my bag exploded sometime in flight. Ewwww.

C's mom is being supportive, not sure about C's dad. I hope he is. I have a strong feeling that C's mom will be a good ally for C. Not sure which pronouns are approriate for C so I'm staying pronoun-less at this point.

I went to work and came home from work in record time. I have a UTI - I did the over the counter test and it turned in record time the other day but I'm waiting for tomorrow to call the doctor's office. This has also caused a Painful Bladder Syndrome Flare up (I think) and combined with feelig like I have GI issues. I was in the store for less than 30 minutes and spent most of that in the bathroom. I claimed GI issues because it's easier than explaining -everything else. I'm out of the D-Mannose it should be here tomorrow.

In the mean time I'm guzzling water and if I don't start feeling pain free soon because of the OTC stuff I took I may, uh, use one of the pills I have left from my tooth extration. I also didn't sleep well last night getting up and down all night to go to the freaking bathroom.

Oh, askye. Feel well.

Happy belated Thanksgiving, bitches. I hope your holidays are going well.

A bit of mearaing on something from over a week ago, but felt the need to respond to

There is so much injustice in this world - whole thing looks like it's headed for the nether regions in a modest hand-crafted container made from stiff plant fibers. I can't fix everything that's wrong. And to be honest, I don't know that I can fix anything. But I know it is more than I can do to fight on all fronts.

This city I love is so fucked, and it's all I can do to keep myself going. Blah.

Boy, do I hear you and then some. Whenever I do something within my own bubble of friends I feel like a hypocrite, with all that's wrong in my city and country. Honestly, the main thing I do is to walk around with a batch of anti-racist stickers, so that whenever I see a racist sticker/sign I can cover it with the anti-racist sticker. I don't really feel safe in most demonstrations or confronting groups of racists (why are they always in groups), so I hardly go to demonstrations.

But there is one thing I started to do which seems to help with the guilt. Whenever the situation looks grim/I had an overdose of news, I donate a small amount of money to a random white hat organization (usually pro-peace, socialist, feminist, etc.). Anywhere between 10-20$ - again, small amount. But it helps.

If we all do a little bit, we can do a lot.