Sounds wonderful Connie.

I'm always nervous at airport immigration. I'm always a little nervous just going through the TSA lines domestically. I don't trust anyone in authority anymore, frankly.

Timelies all!

Meanwhile, the temperatures here are supposed to be in the mid-to-upper 90s, plus the humidity making it feel even hotter. Yup, summer in DC...

Or passive-aggressively poking at each other. "Three NO TRUMP!!!!"

My grandmother has been cheerfully posting on FB for months how much she enjoys playing bridge NO TRUMP.

All of this fucking drama over the fucking emails, and it comes out today in the hearings that only three of the fucking emails were classified? And not even marked properly?

Tempest in a teapot.

My fear is that when she gets elected (yes, WHEN!), they're just going to keep going after her, drumming up all sorts of bullshit scandals to investigate. They'll waste her time and our money and nothing will get done about global warming, Zika, police reform, financial reform, etc etc etc. She'll be as hobbled by Congress as Obama was -- possibly even more so.

OK, time to walk the dog.

My grandmother has been cheerfully posting on FB for months how much she enjoys playing bridge NO TRUMP.

Yay!!

A friend of mine (the mom of the kids I sometimes take to school) posted that as soon as the eldest is old enough to drive, he's getting a car. I was immediately filled with dread. But not because the usual teenage driver fuss. No, because he's black. And it's just an additional scenario in which he'll be profiled and at risk at the hands of the police. And it isn't hypothetical.

I use to travel (3 jobs ago) with an African American coworker. Three trips together--six airport security lines--and she got pulled for extra security questioning every time. I (white) never got pulled. The coworker died of a stroke in her mid40s, and I wonder how much stress from systemic racism contributed. Because that was just the crap I noticed at the time. I'm sure she lived with a ton more, every day.

...meara time...

This morning, the mother wrote me back that she absolutely had the correct address and I should stop this right now because she was my mother. Nope.

My 1st laugh today!

Husband just got a call for a job not only in this area, but in the specific suburb we live in. I told him that if he ends up getting a job 10 minutes away, after all of this, I might snap.

My 2nd laugh today!!

I'm stepping away from Facebook for a while. Might be a day, might be a week, might be a few hours...but between the politics and the latest murders and the politics around them...I just can't handle it any more.

I think I have to do the same. See comments 1 and 2 above.

Microsoft addressed a group of its interns as "bae" and invited them to a party with "hella noms" and "lots of dranks." And then closed it with "HELL YES TO GETTING LIT ON A MONDAY NIGHT."

My 3rd laugh today!!!

I could use everyone crossing their fingers that my dentist can see me tomorrow

~tooth~ma~

then asked Mac his age and both names while they had his passport.

I don't know if it is a thing, but when we traveled to Ecuador they asked the boys their names while they had the passports in hand. (eta: and Bobby got his age wrong much to my horror) Although, I do know and understand. My many extra sons from DH's coaching go through so much that my white boys just don't have to endure. It breaks my heart.

Or passive-aggressively poking at each other. "Three NO TRUMP!!!!"

My 4th laugh today!!!!

Seriously, I am just going to stay here and stay off the news and FB.