When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

Comments

[troisoiseaux]

Yeah, "trying to pay attention in class while an armed coup goes down four miles away" was not how I expected to spend my Wednesday.

Congrats on the poetry acceptance! Sorry about, you know. *waves hands at the state of the world*

[sovay]

Yeah, "trying to pay attention in class while an armed coup goes down four miles away" was not how I expected to spend my Wednesday.

I was quite pleased with the progress of the review! I was looking forward to posting it before it got much later in the day! Who knew I was on a deadline of inciting civil war?

I would consider it very reasonable of your professors to dismiss class under the circumstances, honestly. The attention span is under some strain.

Congrats on the poetry acceptance! Sorry about, you know. *waves hands at the state of the world*

Thank you! God.

[troisoiseaux]

I would consider it very reasonable of your professors to dismiss class under the circumstances, honestly.

They did cancel evening classes (my last class of the day juuust didn't make the cutoff) and my professor said at the beginning of class he'd be flexible if people needed to hop off to get groceries or stuff before the curfew. (Downside of virtual classes; if we were in person, I imagine they'd have locked down the campus.)

Ironically, the two classes I had this afternoon were Constitutional and criminal law.

[sovay]

Ironically, the two classes I had this afternoon were Constitutional and criminal law.

Ouch.

[selkie]

God forbid anything else happen, but if you are a student at AU/GW and need to bolt to the suburbs, I come well vouched for and we don’t see anyone because, well, plague.