RIP Leonard Cohen.

no, no

I really need to build that wall around Sondheim.

this fucking year!

WikiPedia has a list of the names of the 2016 electors for every state. I'm considering writing a letter to every one of them begging them to elect Clinton because she won the popular vote, and they know Trump's a lunatic.

I really need to build that wall around Sondheim.

And make Broadway pay for it.

I'm having a hard time concentrating. I can do OK at work, I focus on putting one foot in front of the other; I focus on the fact that I am there to serve others. That gets me through. Please believe that I love you and care about you. But I can't seem to concentrate on reading and remembering....I'm sorry.

I think the Northern California site is wonky. The main ACLU site let me donate successfully.

Here's hoping they are getting too many donations for their system to handle!

At the Art Wine and Chocolate Fair, there was a booth for a local gym that teaches a sort of mixed martial arts and their big focus is on kids, kids who are bullied and kids who do the bullying, trying to reach both and teach them how to wield their power for good. They also offer free self-defense classes for women. I should get in touch with them, take a class, see what else i can do to support their work.

Leonard Cohen is more than I can process right now.

{{{WindSparrow}}}

Doing chem in school was already hard, but even harder now. Perhaps because she didn't know what to say, my prof didn't acknowledge the way the election turnout may have increased stress (my community college is largely Latino and Asian, many immigrants). I am happy to see online friends in teaching and librarianship are very sensitive that way and I admire them for it.

I'm trying to do hard-for-me STEM work, figure out how to get on my feet again now that a new regime has been added to the challenges, figure out how to fight off the depression I suffer before it robs me of my energy and hope at the time I most need it, and I'm also trying to strategize how I can carve out energy/time/resources to help others in some way. And, of course, worrying about my friends in various communities that this campaign targeted.

I was heartened by this tweetstorm relating a conversation with a co-worker that voted Trump that was reachable and wants to turn around now that she realizes the mistake she made. [link]

I think there needs to be a push to teach girls self-defense so they can take down gropers.

We have been going to a bunch of craft fairs over the last couple of weeks and at every single one there has been a Damsels in Distress booth. They are a MLM that sells self defence tools - alarms, pepper spray, tasers... I've heard about them for a few years, but this is the first time they have been so visible.

I'm 41 fucking years old and there's google, but I really want to ask instead my ap history teacher, Mr. Smith (fer realz) is there precedence for this re: protests in Baltimore and else post general. Because he was so soothing and fucking honest (it was his voice and demeanor, he told is the awful shit so nice you'd absorb and then erupt in fury.)