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.
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?
So why do the political conservatives always seem to be on the wrong side of history?
And why do they react with so much anger when history is discussed? My experience has seen people that were all about getting rid of the horrible restrictions on pollution that are killing our industry, except the plant next to my playground. Hatred for all 'those people', except those I happen to have worked with or family, and they are exceptions. Screw the homeless or disabled, except when it is this exception or that, generally close to home. The inability to see beyond their own backyard. eta: and of course love the guns until their loved one is shot
But, then again I have disowned many friends and family recently because I just can't deal with the hypocrisy anymore. My circle is smaller and I am building my walls. I just can't anymore.
