All Present and Accounted For

We three are all together in the new place, and the cats - after a period of pissed-offedness - have been bunting and sideswiping me to make sure I Smell Right again. And it's all good, except none of us seem to know what to do with so much room again, after a year in the wee studio. I'm unable to settle, and the cats follow me from room to room, and occasionally yowl into the space just to hear the echoes...

I suspect once all the bits and pieces of furniture are arranged and the art is in place, it will feel more-right. But the oh-my-god spaciousness isn't going to go away any time soon. And I think that's good. I want to be aware of my space, how strange it is, how wonderfully odd to have 800+ square feet just for me (and the cats) to live in. It's a privilege to have this personal space, and awareness of that is important.


(I think back to when I lived in an 11 room house, and how much of a cage it felt toward the end, and compare it to the feeling of a 1 bedroom apartment, and understand the appeal of small houses all over again. There's a freedom in limits, too. )

they're not even pretending any more....

To the surprise of nobody paying attention, senators who received very large checks from the NRA over the past year or so just voted against tightening the existing gun control laws, despite 14 people murdered yesterday, despite the appalling number of gun-related murders every single day in this country, despite popular and repeated calls for those laws to be tightened.

Oh, and the Senate just voted to defund Planned Parenthood again, too. And they're aiming at the ACA (again), despite the fact that it's a) working and b) certified legal by SCOTUS.

So. More guns, less health care, is that what they're saying?

Oh, wait, right. Just less actual health care for people who are middle class or below. But we can kill each other off, that's okay.

The Hunger Games, like The Handmaid's Tale, was not supposed to be a fucking MANUAL.

(Obama can and will veto the defunding. But this is what awaits us if the GOP takes the White House in 2016. And all you conservatives earning under 100,000/year? Or, god forbid, underemployed, or actually unemployed? You're going to be fucked over just as badly as the liberals. Don't kid yourself that you're going to get the golden key to the Well-To-Do Club just because you voted for them.)