I'm also wildly angry about the SCOTUS rulings, so I'm trying to channel that into ruthless efficiency at work.

Timelies all!

I voted in the MD primary before I went to work.

Shrift - sorry for your sad news.

Random: there is a giant black cloud heading over DeKalb right now. I hope some of this weather clears out before I leave work tonight. (I already got soaked on my way over!)

Also: heard that the senior staff at my old office have left. . . timing suggests that the university did not renew their contracts. The only staff left are civil servants. Is it wrong for me to feel gleeful?

My cubicle neighbor got a new set of headphones that are apparently Very Nice. All day guys have stopped by and gone ooo and ahh and geeked out over specs and the deal he got. I told them they were acting like girls over shoes. They weren't amused.

I voted this morning. Saw a lt.guv candidate outside & wished them luck (I wouldn't object to them.) Flat out told Mosby volunteers to not waste their efforts on me.

And my tweaked neck is still tweaked & playing with my stress back and it is seriously uncomfortable. Foam roller plus no pillows tonight.

shrift I am so sorry.

KARL! I'm so glad you're ok. scary.

lisa - that does not sound relaxing. I've been stung by scorpions 5 times, I am not a fan.

I am trying not to spiral into despair because of the world. it's a lot of suck right now.

I am trying not to spiral into despair because of the world. it's a lot of suck right now.

It's discouraging. And you know...it was only in 2015 when the White House got lit up in Pride colors to celebrate gay marriage. So I have to hold on to that because my faith is stretched very thin right now.

Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is 28 and a member of the DSA, won the Democratic primary in Queens today. Beat a ten-term congressman who was seen as Pelosi's heir. This is... encouraging.

And a federal court just struck down family separation.

The expected person (white man) son the Louise Slaughter seat. We actually had a white man, a white woman, a black man and a black woman running, which seemed odd as they all pretty much had the same views. Like the debate was mostly them agreeing with each h other! The man who won does have the most government experience as a state assemblyman. The two women had never held office and the other man was a city councilman. I voted for the councilman because he seemed both fired up about Rochester s issues of poverty and racism and also like a reasonable and kind person, but I was pretty sure he wouldn't win. I

The Republican is a neurosurgeon. I know a few kind and reasonable surgeons, but in general the surgeon type is not who I want in government

I'm trying to look forward to November, but I may have to schedule a trip out of reach of media at that time. I am trying to avoid polls and predictions because I don't think I will ever recover from the confidence they gave me that I would be celebrating President Clinton.

I've spent a lifetime being steadfastly optimistic in the face of inevitable disaster, but recent history has changed me into a bitter realist with a lack of confidence in her fellow citizens' ability to make rational decisions.

So that was a long sentence, but true so I'll leave it.