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For a while, you can’t quite believe this thing has happened. The absolute horror of it was something there were no words for. It seemed utterly impossible, like a natural disaster that lasts for multiple years that was somehow chosen again purposefully or like a whole country choosing an abuser and giving him ultimate power over all of us.
I didn’t know if I was ever going to even post a photo again. I didn’t sleep on the night of the election and I still had to go to work the next day. I have to be stronger than I actually am. I have to at least pretend in a way that might garner an Oscar performance as the main protagonist in the ongoing story of my life. Because, I feel like I am falling apart. The first student I saw on Wednesday morning was a fifth grader who I know was very hopeful Kamala would win. I couldn’t speak because I was so emotional but gave her a hug instead. Now, she’s growing up in a world where she will have no body autonomy. It is so hard to process the election when you are in front of others and have to function as if the world is still in a full state of rotation.
I took two Ibuprofen PM on Wednesday night so that I could fall asleep and, on Thursday, when I initially woke up, it was like my brain was in a bit of a fog and forgot all about what happened. As if, maybe it was all just a passing night terror. And then, it hit me all over again and it was somehow even worse that day. Like, when you find yourself distracted by something beautiful and then you quickly remember the overall reality right now that you are faced with. I managed to put my clothes on and then started weeping into my coffee before biking to work.
I feel sorry for my students the most. For the past few yeas, I have felt so terrible about climate change in the world and how it is changing and now we have someone in office who will do far more damage in this and other respects. His first plans are to abolish the Department of Education and the FDA. Environmental protections will fall by the wayside. Medicare will be privatized. Money for people with disabilities will be cut or eliminated and birth control will either be eliminated or very expensive and hard to get depending on where you live. Forget about human rights for those who are transitioning genders or who are nonbinary. He is of a limited mind and feels strongly that there are only two genders in existence (despite many centuries across the world of multiple genders). He plans on even deporting the citizens who may have voted for him. These are his actual plans in writing and he controls all three branches of our government *and* has declared he now has a mandate. So, I really don’t feel I am over-reacting. In fact, I was told I was over-reacting the first time he was in office and that Roe v. Wade would never be overturned. So, I guess maybe my fears are pretty realistic. I also want to be clear that I will not entertain any right wing, pro-Trump fascist comments on here. If you are in that category, your viewpoints are harmful to people I care about and now you are the ones in power. When you have respect for others, that means you don’t wish for policies that do extreme damage to their lives and vote for politicians to act out all of your fears, hatred, and ignorance. If you voted for Trump, I already know what your opinions are and they are responsible for destroying my county. We’ve let a group of famous billionaires (we all knew enough about to be cautious) join forces to define policies that will control us and I doubt the price of groceries will go down any time, either.
I’m going to try to write a little bit each day on my life experiences from now on. I don’t expect others to care or read it. If you do, that’s ok. If you don’t, you’re busy. Some days, it might be more about a film I’ve watched, a book I’m reading, a dream I’ve had or what music I have been listening to and how that is affecting me. Other days, it might just be a poem. There might be days I am just too devastated to lift my head up and navigate an unwieldy language around incomprehensible things. I have been encouraged by someone in my family to figure out a way to fly under the radar so to speak in terms of my strong opinions. This is the opposite of that and I carry this forward with a sense of anxiety yet also human responsibility. I have been so depressed I am not sure there is anything left in this world worth living for but I am definitely not going to live out whatever time I have left being silent.
Note: the above title is from a Mission of Burma song that you can listen to here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU5XEJmn0A
The lyrics seem very relevant:
genius.com/Mission-of-burma-fame-and-fortune-lyrics
The fortune cookie saying was from one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago called Yummy Yummy in Lakeview. The restaurant has a Vegetarian menu and many delicious options and is not as expensive as so many others these days.
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These are the Absolute Towers (AKA Monroe Buildings) from Hurontario Street in Downtown Mississauga just as the morning rush begins
Surely she would not betray me...
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✦ No Match → No Collision Hair
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Showcasing my beloved Kar'niss on the Hybrid Arachne Head from BeSpoke! This head offers so many creative possibilities with not only a toggle-able unhinged jaw, but ALSO toggle-able extra eyes on the forehead! So in one moment, you can be perfectly humanoid, but the next, you can don the spider-y features of a beautiful nightmare! All with just two clicks through the HUD! This magnificent head can be found at the mainstore, ☆HERE☆!
And no, I'll never get over how dirty Larian Studios did my beloved drider husband... (Also sorry for the 50th picture that features a full moon, OOPS!)
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hello everyone! i hope you are all wonderful and thank you all so much for all the comments and faves and emails:-) i've been really really busy working these last few days but i'll be back to visit all of you within the next couple of days, i promise:-) love & peace from me to you...
Halteverbote gelten immer nur auf der Straßenseite, auf der die Beschilderung angebracht ist. Meistens ist das der rechte Fahrbahnrand. Der Bereich, in dem nicht gehalten oder geparkt werden darf, beginnt am Halteverbotsschild und endet in der Regel an der nächsten Kreuzung oder Einmündung.
Absolutes Halteverbot, Beginn und Ende Verkehrsschild.
Durch die weißen Pfeile werden Anfang und Ende eines Halteverbots gekennzeichnet.
Befinden sich zusätzlich kleine weiße Pfeile auf den Schildern, deutet dies auf eine räumliche Begrenzung des Halteverbotsbereichs hin. Ein Pfeil am oberen Rand des Schildes kennzeichnet den Beginn der Halteverbotszone, am unteren Rand des Verkehrszeichens markiert er das Ende der Halteverbotszone. Im Bereich zwischen diesen beiden Schildern darf nicht geparkt werden. Kurzes Halten kann erlaubt sein, wenn es sich um ein eingeschränktes Halteverbot handelt.
Aber was macht man, wenn man einen Parkplatz brauch?
Ganz einfach; das hintere Schild einen Meter nach links schieben.