Callaluna, I'm wishing you allthe best with your new start in life.

Jilli - do you have this Funko POP!

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I wore Nasty Woman again today, first time since the election. I don't actually like the scent that much but glad I bought it.

I came in early today and I am here late and I have not finished what I wanted to get done today. This is very frustrating.

Congratulations, Callaluna. May you shake the dust off your feet and stride forth into a shiny new life. (Sorry America just peed all over the couch cushions, though...)

I'm not on FB, haven't been in years, and am this close to just deleting my account, what with all the discussions about how badly FB contributed to the spread of untrue information. I'm sorry to hear PN is filling up with white women's tears, though. Am I sheltered? I am hardly a radical, but I thought lots of folks understood about intersectionality now? At least on the left? Shows what I know.

I left work early to get a biopsy today, for the same thing Gwen Ifill died of. So, there's that. I may let the surgeon talk me into a hysterectomy yet, because biopsies ain't no fun atall.

I have 40 minutes to decide if I really want to go to chorus tonight. I guess I do, although I'm not loving this year's songs like I did last year's. That said, someone suggested we sing "Hallelujah" tonight (which we learned last year) in honor of Leonard Cohen, and I don't want to miss that. So I guess I'll go.

So my mom saw her NP of 20+ years today, and is now on her way to see a cardiologist and a neuropsychologist. The former because her eldest sister went in for a routine checkup and they sent her straight to get a stent put in, and my mom's been experiencing what she calls pre-shortness of breath. She never actually gets there but feel like she's about to. So they're being proactive.

The latter....mom went in with a list of dislocation/memory issues she's been experiencing the last year or so and an email I sent (after offering and her accepting gratefully) describing things I'd seen. Apparently, my summation comparing memory to a database, and it's as if my mom's database index (and explaining indexes) has been corrupted was found to be both amusing and very useful to the NP. The neuropsych will do all the physical battery of tests, where a straight up neuro in the area wouldn't start there.

I'm proud of my mom for being so open about this. Dad doesn't want to talk about it, which I find frustrating. He's boots on the ground witness, he could provide important data, but he's denial noping hard. I get that, whooboy, I AM his daughter, and it isn't a new trait in him (see:stroke he probably had and just sent email detailing symptoms then got in a car and drove 300 miles.) But still , I want to bonk him. So I'm glad I could offer a partial view and her NP is taking it seriously.

And work was hair on fire. Again. It's wearing me out.

Go saramegs mom taking charge of her health!

Social media is awful and great at the same time. I can't quit you. And I'm sad when others do (I can't handle twitter, I'm on there maybe once a month, but I've pared fb down a bit and need to do some more)

Spent the weekend with my bestie and her wife and their adorable 8 month old. Went dancing twice. Saw a few local friends. And today got to go tour Skywalker Ranch thanks for a college friend of my friend's wife, who works for ILM. Pretty neat.

I've encountered rapant hatred of Sanders supporters. Don't know the particular thread you are talking about, but I've heard lots of people talking about how the fault for the Clinton defeat lies with the "hard left".

As to rapant Misogny, don't deny it. Don't see how anyone lacking it could vote for Trump. But doesn't mean it could not have been overcome by a different candidate. This election was lost in turnout. While nobody knows for sure what would have happened to a different candidate, the HRC campaign did an awful job of turnout. The Black community was supposed to be one of her special strengths compared to Sanders, yet she was unable to turn out the Black vote. Maybe giving how large a portion of the Black population are working class, middle class or poor, her weakness on class issues dampened enthusiasm among the Black general population in a way it did not among primary voters. As to Bernie being "destroyed" the same way Clinton was - not as much opportunity for last minute surprises.Sanders' radical past is out there on the public record, and proudly owned by him. Even if the big guns had tried to save things for the last minute, smaller right wing bloggers would have fired all the ammunition available within weeks of his nomination. He would have had one thing Clinton did not have - plenty of time to deal with the shitwave.

Typo, just please don't. Not right now. Please.

I think that social media can be used as a great tool to connect people locally. (for me, fb more than twitter). Like the event I went to tonight, a presentation by the police Citizen Advisory Board at a local coffee shop, I wouldn't have known about except through fb.