I told Tim that my secret dream is that the results of the election will be invalidated and Clinton will become POTUS*. And then I said "Imagine it: when you come home from work, the only conversations we'll have to have will be things like 'Hey, the dog ate his whole dinner tonight!' and 'I got tickets for Guardians of the Galaxy!' and we won't have to talk about a single political atrocity!"

And Tim said, "No, the conversations will be 'Hey, did you hear how Clinton totally OWNED Congress?' "

Me: "Isn't all this reproductive freedom wonderful? And all the girls getting STEM educations? And the rising wages?"

*(Yes, I know it can't happen, so no one needs to explain that. It's just my secret dream, is all.)

I have finally bought my two boxes of macarons for my birthday. One is open beside me and I'm delicately nibbling my way through it. I have also refreshed my supply of fancy cheese, so it's yummy ham and cheese for dinner. The person at the cheese counter said "No one's ever asked for a bigger piece of that cheese before, they always complain that the pieces are too big and expensive." "That," I said, "is because they eating little delicate pieces of it. I'm putting it on grilled ham and cheese sandwiches." "Oh," the cheese person sighed, "that sounds so good."

I also did my taxes today and I'm getting a four-figure refund. Fancy cheese is in my future. And maybe macarons on my Vegas vacation in July. Boy, Vegas is cheap when you go in high summer and are flying in from one state away.

I have also had that wistful dream about Clinton, except I'm sure it would lead to armed revolt.

I wistfully remember when I thought there would be an armed revolt back in November. Y'know, on account of her winning. Ah to be so young and hopeful again.

Who has two thumbs and just agreed to go to a Town Hall with Nancy Pelosi on the ACA?

JZ! Is also attending. You might want to coordinate.

I think it's a bit early to be thinking the Russia developments are going to lead anywhere. I'm pretty sure Sessions isn't going to investigate. I still think Congress investigating is kinda unlikely. I'm sure the administration is working hard to make sure everything is buried in agencies as soon as possible.

JZ! Is also attending. You might want to coordinate.

I do want. Thanks!

Awesome, shrift & JZ! My rep is also having a healthcare town hall on Saturday, but I am not going because I have dog agility class.

They finally put up DJT's official portrait in our office today (ptuie). Even without the person who is the subject, it's a horrible portrait. He's got a godawful glower, and he's orange, and it's much more staged-looking. In fact, it looks rather cheaply photoshopped. Bleah.

I shall be walking the long way around to avoid seeing it.

Also, I want to thank everyone who offered me some ACA questions to ask. I meant to do that earlier, but work was chaotic and so was politics.

There's something that has made me uneasy about politics now. I mean aside from the obvious. It's that I get this feeling that conservative reps are, well, kinda villains. I find that really unsettling and it makes me question myself. Am I just becoming blindly partisan?

It's like every time there's an issue with assisting people it's always, let's assist less or not at all. Whenever the issue is civil rights, it's let's restrict them. Whenever it's the environment, it's let's allow more pollution. It's never, let's work out a better solution, it's always less assistance is better, expanding civil rights is bad, less restrictions on polluting is always better somehow.

I know conservatives and they aren't bad people. So why do the political conservatives always seem to be on the wrong side of history?