I wouldn't mind seeing the people I went to high school with - it was a small school so I had at least a nodding acquaintance with everyone in my class. I really just want to spend about half an hour or so hearing how everyone's doing and be done with it for the next ten years, and it would be along trip for that. If I even heard about a reunion to go, which I have not. Seeing those of my classmates I see on Facebook (and haven't blocked) will have to satisfy that particular yen.

Non-electric heating pads: you really can't top a hot water 'bottle', the rubber kind, for nice heating, as well that it cools off as you do, which makes it great for my cold cold feet. OTOH, they're not so great for forehead type use.

The pedantic part of me is bothered by the "lungs of the earth" thing, but then the practical side thinks it's probably best to let people get panicked by hyperbole on this issue. It's not as if slash-and-burning half the Amazon rain forest is good for the planet's atmosphere.

I'm not so distressed about "the lungs of the earth," so much as the Ultra Right Wing President of Brazil purposefully burning down the Amazon for oil and agriculture.

Putin's done a fantastic job of installing right wing demagogues all around the globe.

Lately I've been thinking about how well capitalism pairs with Fascism.

I have some of these:

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chemical reaction heating pads. I like them, and they come in several different sizes (and they're starting to do some aromatherapy - or at least lavender scented heating pads).

And apparently the president of Brazil refused financial aid to help fight the fires, which seems stupidly petty.

And apparently the president of Brazil refused financial aid to help fight the fires, which seems stupidly petty.

From what I saw, he's going to keep burning the Amazon until Macron apologizes to him for something mean he said. Because apparently the president of Brazil is in FUCKING MIDDLE SCHOOL.

He clearly is Trump's brother from another mother.

I have those microwave rice things, for heating pads, but finally got an actual plug in heating pad a while back and was like "why didn't I do this before??"

I can't believe how many toddlers are running the world's nations these days. Good god. It's so depressing for the future. I try and remind myself that people in other eras were probably convinced humanity would destroy itself, and we didn't, but global warming seems like something we can't really avoid...

And high school was before facebook, but mostly I just want a 30 second update on a lot of people. Like, college, I'm pretty much friends with anyone I cared about, on FB. I have a few hs friends on fb. But there are a bunch of folks I just want to know what happened to them. Married? Gay? Crazy career? Moved to Japan? Became a musician? No idea, and I want to know! But then once I know I don't need to like, keep being friends with them?

And high school was before facebook, but mostly I just want a 30 second update on a lot of people.

I care less about 98% of my classmates than I do getting to see the Forbidden Floors that were formerly the convent. I'm seriously super excited. (Catholic school kids are weird, yo.)