Damn, you guys. Much love all around.
I second this.
'Not Fade Away'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Damn, you guys. Much love all around.
I second this.
((Laura))
There is really no other place I can vent about this. This community is a small island of sanity, for which I am thankful.
Ditto
There is really no other place I can vent about this. This community is a small island of sanity, for which I am thankful.
Definitely, I'm so grateful we still have this place.
I think it's more mutual insanity but in different ways and on different days. Somebody's always home and relatively lucid and able to relate. I'm so sorry, Cash. And you too, Laura.
Cashmere, I am so sorry. Your family has really been through it, lately. Your poor dad. How is your niece holding up?
Couldn't the universe give Cashmere's Dad a break already? He has had enough dangerous guys in his house for an old guy, okay? How awful for him to have to feel bad about this.
Michelle Obama a man? That... doesn't really make any sense to me.
Cashmere, I am so sorry. This is terrible.
All sanity~ma in direction of yours and Laura's and Steph's families. And whoever else might need it (aren't we all?).
I think we're seeing the long-term isolation and stress of the lockdown really playing out -- whether it is the personal, like all the woes experienced here, or random customers having meltdowns, general incivility, rioters and shootings. And I don't know what we can do about it (the stress) other than acknowledge it and soldier on.
Feeling kind of depressed here just now. But I'm so grateful that this is an island that I can go to and feel it's OK to talk about details (work, roommate worries and annoyances) without worry that it will get back to people that it might hurt.
How is your niece holding up?
She's shaken up. And filing for divorce. Dad said she is welcome to stay and I think she needs the stability and someone to support her through this, too.
I'm trying not to get too low. Even watching things in Kenosha. We had a BLM demonstration planned for Saturday and now we have similar "militia" groups putting up a call to arms.
I'm sick of white supremacy. I'm sick of violence. I'm sick of a system that rewards bad behavior and punishes minorities for just being minorities.
I'm working on staying positive and doing small things around the community to help. Make a donation, patronize a minority owned business, just be fucking nice to people. GAH.