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For when one of us goes on the job, the other hits the hay
I hate wearing masks. I have done it before for medical and other protective reasons, but it sets off some of the same sensory issues as certain textures or kinds of touch and a substrate of my brain just screams chokingly at me the entire time that we can't deal with these sensations and my face needs to be clear now now now now now. I have never even covered my mouth with scarves in winter. At the end of these three or six or nine months, I am either going to be amazingly desensitized or no one is ever going to be able to touch my face again. So I hope the entire goddamn Commonwealth appreciates my sacrifice and also check out these cherry blossoms.
I saw a red-tailed hawk, too, but could not successfully photograph it on either of its perches on the cross-tree of the telephone pole or the corner of the Litchfield Block.
I have a new go-to quote every time I hear that the man in the White House has said anything at all, courtesy of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's "The Paperhanger," written for the American Theatre Wing's Lunchtime Follies c. 1942–45: "Isn't it wonderful how they always believe me? It's not as though I kept it a secret—I come right out and tell them what I'm going to do. They just can't believe that anyone can be as big a bastard as I am. You know, you can't tell how far a fellow could go, with a nature like mine."
I saw a red-tailed hawk, too, but could not successfully photograph it on either of its perches on the cross-tree of the telephone pole or the corner of the Litchfield Block.
I have a new go-to quote every time I hear that the man in the White House has said anything at all, courtesy of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's "The Paperhanger," written for the American Theatre Wing's Lunchtime Follies c. 1942–45: "Isn't it wonderful how they always believe me? It's not as though I kept it a secret—I come right out and tell them what I'm going to do. They just can't believe that anyone can be as big a bastard as I am. You know, you can't tell how far a fellow could go, with a nature like mine."
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When I hear the occupant of the White House, I myself tend to think of a quotation from the late president of Fredonia: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
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The blossom is gorgeous!
Nine
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I run and walk outside unmasked and do my darnedest to stay twelve feet away from other folks, usually across the street. I appreciate your sacrifice. I was furious this afternoon when we walked near the Lexington soccer fields and counted almost thirty people spread across two of the fields (we stayed on the Temple side of the street). I am making a mask tonight to wear to get curbside bagel pickup tomorrow.
Iago was like that. It kind of makes the audience into accomplices.
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Thank you. I regret the necessary relevance of the latter.
When I hear the occupant of the White House, I myself tend to think of a quotation from the late president of Fredonia: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
That also covers it.
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I think history repeats as tragedy the second time around, too.
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It was an era for them. Plus ça change.
The blossom is gorgeous!
Thank you! I was so glad it wasn't raining and I could finally get out.
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No marathon in three weeks, here. I am finding the destruction of communal activities difficult to deal with. I am not a person who participates in most of them, but it is important to me that they happen. It is just also important to me that as many people as possible stay alive, so.
I run and walk outside unmasked and do my darnedest to stay twelve feet away from other folks, usually across the street. I appreciate your sacrifice. I was furious this afternoon when we walked near the Lexington soccer fields and counted almost thirty people spread across two of the fields (we stayed on the Temple side of the street).
Thank you. People are generally keeping their distance around here, which I appreciate. I do not appreciate the dudes who seem to think that because they're jogging or running, they don't have to make space, just speed up.
I am making a mask tonight to wear to get curbside bagel pickup tomorrow.
I hope they are good bagels.
Iago was like that. It kind of makes the audience into accomplices.
I am sick at how many accomplices this particular Iago has.
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*hugs*
I quite like many of the things mine does. There are just some aspects of the wiring that are sub-optimal for, like, embodied existence.
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Well, except for -- all right, never mind.
I am reminded of a conversation I just had with Lydy about Nuit. The latter was being extremely sweet and mellow, lying around asking to have her belly rubbed and squinching up her little pointy face in contentment and being all lovey, and Lydy said, "She's a very good girl, except when she is absolutely terrible."
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I understand the relevance of this anecdote, but also: good cat! (As I type, Autolycus has fallen asleep on my wrist, pinning me to the keyboard.)
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*hugs*
Stay safe however you can.
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Oh, also good cat! I am glad we both have good cats to do what is necessary.
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I hope they work for you! At least they should be stylish.
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Yeah, that's on brand.
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(For other readers who don't know me: my child goes to a Mandarin immersion daycare even though no one in our family on either side speaks it, because language learning is important to me and that's the language that was on offer in our neighborhood and with an open seat at the right time. I myself was sent to a French immersion daycare and kindergarten in my time for the same reason. I do speak Japanese, although it's rusty, and lived in Japan for a time -- not teaching English!)
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That's wonderful. Thank you for telling me!
my child goes to a Mandarin immersion daycare even though no one in our family on either side speaks it
And you totally paid it back, since there are now at least two non-Gujarati-speaking families out there now whose kids are going to keep asking for, like, more amchur on everything.
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And, yes me too on masks. Gnar. (I mean. I'll cope. But gnar.)
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You're welcome!
And, yes me too on masks. Gnar. (I mean. I'll cope. But gnar.)
There must be people it doesn't viscerally bother. I wonder if I know any of them.
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I think this probably means something about how good, as a percentage, this year is, but I don't know what yet. Mostly I know about dogs, cats, small children and their goodness percentile.
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The blossoms are beautiful, and from a distance, when I first open Dreamwidth, they look like pink lilacs (though I know they're not).
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The blossom pic is gorgeous!
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Wicked Bagel does a good job. It also didn't require a mask. We called ahead with our order, paid with credit card on the phone, and called from the car when we parked. The worker came out and put the bagels in the trunk, so we never had close contact with anybody. I would think that for people without a car, they could leave the bag on the sidewalk, to be picked up and carried away. When we got home, we decanted the bagels from their bag to some bags of our own, did extensive hand washing, etc. Their bag did not come into our house. I did use the mask for Trader Joe's, and may post about that.
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I think I might need a better camera. They always come out blurry, which makes me think it's a shutter speed problem, or whatever the digital equivalent is. (I might still need a better film camera! I am just at the moment feeling slightly bitter toward digital because of a photo yesterday which did not come out at all because the camera had a problem with contrast. You can screw up a lot of ways with photographic film, but at least it just captures whatever the light is bouncing off of, not whatever it expects to adjust its light levels to.)
The blossoms are beautiful, and from a distance, when I first open Dreamwidth, they look like pink lilacs (though I know they're not).
I can see that! It's the profusion. Man, I wanted to visit the Arboretum this spring. Maybe I can walk there, if they don't close it.
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Thank you.
*hugs*
The blossom pic is gorgeous!
And thank you! I'm so happy things are really starting to flower.
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Oh, lovely. Photos?
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Man, I wanted to visit the Arboretum this spring. Maybe I can walk there, if they don't close it.
I hope they leave it open. They should leave open places where people can walk widely spaced, because all of us cooped up isn't healthy either.
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Thank you so much! Those are beautiful.
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*hugs*
Maybe everyone hates masks and just doesn't talk about it. Statistical evidence in my comments is certainly trending that way. The headache just sounds bonus unnecessary.
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