Show me the money and the milk and the honey
My family did not hold its seder tonight for reasons, but I met my mother after finishing my work for the week and we broiled lamb chops and we opened the door with matzah and wine: let all who are hungry come and eat, let all who are thirsty come and drink, let all who are in slavery be free. That is the most important thing.
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spatch and I took the cats for their first claw-clipping at Stinky's Kittens & Doggies Too in Ball Square. I am sure it is hackneyed to describe Jo-Ann Keith as a cat whisperer, but she encouraged Hestia out of her carrier with nothing more than a gentle voice and an unthreateningly presented hand and divested her of her latest crop of stilettos with neither rush nor fuss; Autolycus took longer on account of his greater number of claws, but he huffed only once in the general way of registering protest and then tried to pour himself off her table to explore the rest of the store. We have had many, many more stressful interactions around our cats' quick-growing claws. Two opposable thumb-paws up. I spent the evening at a meeting of the Somerville Democratic City Committee, taking notes on minimum wage and the necessity of voting in November to uphold the trans-protecting anti-discrimination laws currently in place. One of the longtime Somerville representatives spoke about Massachusetts' reputation as a bastion of queer rights and how honestly recent and all the more vital it is to defend: as she told the story, the Catholic grip on local politics prevented any forward movement on marriage equality etc. for so long that it took the sexual abuse scandal of 2002 to break the archdiocese's influence, after which she thinks it's no accident that the very next political cycle, the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts went through. So, thanks, Spotlight as well as Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. Let us not let that legacy down. Not to mention any number of people currently residing in this state who deserve, you know, life and liberty and access to medical care and not being hassled on their way to the bus.
Then I spent most of the night having an unpleasant and exhausting environmental allergic reaction (I suspect a combination of dust and pollen, but the net effect was: my skin exploded) with the result that I slept about three hours and half of that wrapped in the sole clean fitted sheet in the house while Rob did emergency four a.m. laundry, but I made it out to Arlington this afternoon to pick up my new reading glasses with blue-light filter and then to Lexington to celebrate the holiday with my mother, which is where we came in. I greatly appreciatehandful_ofdust tagging this Dmitri and Giles fix-it for me. Is Dmitri Jewish? Michael Stuhlbarg is Jewish. Headcanon accepted. Chag sameach, all.
Yesterday
spatch and I took the cats for their first claw-clipping at Stinky's Kittens & Doggies Too in Ball Square. I am sure it is hackneyed to describe Jo-Ann Keith as a cat whisperer, but she encouraged Hestia out of her carrier with nothing more than a gentle voice and an unthreateningly presented hand and divested her of her latest crop of stilettos with neither rush nor fuss; Autolycus took longer on account of his greater number of claws, but he huffed only once in the general way of registering protest and then tried to pour himself off her table to explore the rest of the store. We have had many, many more stressful interactions around our cats' quick-growing claws. Two opposable thumb-paws up. I spent the evening at a meeting of the Somerville Democratic City Committee, taking notes on minimum wage and the necessity of voting in November to uphold the trans-protecting anti-discrimination laws currently in place. One of the longtime Somerville representatives spoke about Massachusetts' reputation as a bastion of queer rights and how honestly recent and all the more vital it is to defend: as she told the story, the Catholic grip on local politics prevented any forward movement on marriage equality etc. for so long that it took the sexual abuse scandal of 2002 to break the archdiocese's influence, after which she thinks it's no accident that the very next political cycle, the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts went through. So, thanks, Spotlight as well as Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. Let us not let that legacy down. Not to mention any number of people currently residing in this state who deserve, you know, life and liberty and access to medical care and not being hassled on their way to the bus.Then I spent most of the night having an unpleasant and exhausting environmental allergic reaction (I suspect a combination of dust and pollen, but the net effect was: my skin exploded) with the result that I slept about three hours and half of that wrapped in the sole clean fitted sheet in the house while Rob did emergency four a.m. laundry, but I made it out to Arlington this afternoon to pick up my new reading glasses with blue-light filter and then to Lexington to celebrate the holiday with my mother, which is where we came in. I greatly appreciate
handful_ofdust tagging this Dmitri and Giles fix-it for me. Is Dmitri Jewish? Michael Stuhlbarg is Jewish. Headcanon accepted. Chag sameach, all.