I can do the dishes and I could climb your walls

[sovay]

So, look, all sorts of things are wrong with the world right now and I'm sure tomorrow will add to their list, but the Republicans' much-vaunted, stupidly cruel "American Health Care Act" went the way of the Hindenburg this afternoon (I have been saying to people that I can't even admit to feeling schadenfreude, because I don't feel at all bad about rejoicing in this misfortune of 45 and his administration) and rushthatspeaks and I made sesame candy from a cup of toasted sesame seeds, a half-cup of jaggery, and a tablespoon of butter with results that were almost indistinguishable from the storebought (there was a faint smokiness that we will eliminate next time by crushing more of the jaggery first so that it doesn't have to spend as much time over the heat melting) and I found one of those things on Tumblr that makes me basically happy, in this case people discussing seriously which of the various Powell and Pressburger incarnations of Roger Livesey is hottest (I saw him first as Torquil, but I do like Frank) and it's been a very long week and I'll take the good things I can get, but the failure of the ACA repeal is a very good one.

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[thistleingrey]

the failure of the ACA repeal is a very good one

Oh, I'm so glad. I haven't wanted to look.

[sovay]

Oh, I'm so glad. I haven't wanted to look.

It was the last news I saw before leaving the house this afternoon; I got back to my computer to much rejoicing.

[davidgillon]

I saw a Guardian article saying it was about to fail in the middle of the night, so went looking for an update, and that put a very big smile on my face :)