Mmm, fish tacos.

I was influenced by a friend yesterday who posted about mangonadas and I decided I needed to go. Luckily a different friend lives nearby and was willing to meet me and hang out for a bit, so it was delicious AND good times.

Not great—one of my teeth is hurting and I fear when I go to the dentist he will say I need to have a filling or a root canal or something. Boo, stupid teeth grinding!

Boo, stupid teeth grinding!

Dental -ma!

Also, I hear Oregon's got a Covid surge going. So boo to that too.

Matilda's summer job doesn't start until July, so she'll have plenty of time to recover from her June 11th wisdom teeth. Once she starts working she'll be doing 4 hours a day / 20 hours a week all the way up to the beginning of the school year, August 16th. And they better fucking have it in person or I shall lose my mind.

I'm already super grumpy that JZ's job, which had originally committed to WFH to June (starting last March), is now extending to October. I fucking hate the Dean and I hate SFUSD.

In better new, JZ's brother Lukas, and his husband TJ are both out and visiting. They're both fully vaxxed and flew out from NYC. (Lukas couldn't come out initially because his immune system is compromised with his chemo treatments - which have proven completely successful, btw!)

As soon as Matilda gets out of school I'll be driving her over to meet with them, and go JZ's dad's gravesite.

I get my second jab tomorrow. Excited! Though it really won't change my activities that much.

Sounds like the should have the teens (12+) available to be vaccinated within the next few weeks. That would be amazing to have them all done before August.

My job today involves explaining to an author why (the fuck) we cannot use the term "Coloreds" as a racial category. They were specifically discussing South Africa, and used the term "South African Coloreds" as a catch-all term for mixed-race people. And I was like, in the year of our Lord Black Jesus 2021, how have you NOT heard of the term "mixed-race" what the fuck is wrong with you????

Literally never thought that was a thing that would come up in medical editing. (For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race." THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A TRUMP????)

For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race."

Ha! "I suppose..."

There's no supposition, asshole! It does not imply it but states it directly.

There's no supposition, asshole! It does not imply it but states it directly.

Right? That's its literal meaning. God almighty.

Are the authors UnAmerican? Because iirc “colored” is a normal term in use in some areas, although NOT American English obviously.

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Literally never thought that was a thing that would come up in medical editing. (For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race." THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A TRUMP????)

Sadly, I am not surprised. I'm working on a revision of an American Government textbook and I think the bothsidesism may kill me.

ION, I'm more than 48 hours past my second Moderna dose and besides a fevered first night and general sluggishness all Saturday, I'm fine.

Fingers crossed for Matilda's wisdom teeth removal!

Teppy, you were with me the whole time, you said "You've never had Graeter's, Parker? WTAF?" and off we went.

Hey, Hec, I'm holding my thumbs that Matilda's experience is as good as it can be, and that she recovers quickly and easily.

megan, that's good to hear.

Ken is scheduled for his first shot next week. Goodness, I seem to have been crying a lot the last few days.

Fingers crossed for Matilda's wisdom teeth removal!

Hey, Hec, I'm holding my thumbs that Matilda's experience is as good as it can be, and that she recovers quickly and easily.

Thank you! It is my One Big Worry at the moment. I think I'm going to have Emmett come down and hold her hand while she gets her anesthesia.

(She's very anxious about it herself.)

Are the authors UnAmerican? Because iirc “colored” is a normal term in use in some areas, although NOT American English obviously.

The authors may be UnAmerican, but the article is definitely about South African individuals, and apparently "colored" is a normal term there, per your link. Dang. We still won't use it,* though, so it got changed to "mixed-race."

*We are being extra-super careful about articles that address race, because there was a whole (deserved) uproar over an AMA podcast in February where a physician and editor for one of the JAMA journals said that structural racism isn't a problem in medicine because -- I swear to you this is true -- racism was "made illegal in the 1960s" and discussions of structural racism shouldn't refer to race but socioeconomics.** (The physician is, of course, white, as was the podcast host, who didn't question that assertion.) (Not to mention all TPTB at the AMA who were just fine with putting that podcast on the website. Jesus.)

**Is socioeconomic status a problem in medicine? Sure. Does that mean that racism doesn't exist anymore? Jesus Christ, no. Are race and socioeconomic status intertwined to the point of being inseparable? Sure, but it still doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist anymore or that structural racism isn't a problem in medicine.

Enormous fucking blind spot there. Wow.