One More Monday, One More Week

I put in only 4 hours at work yesterday, and was home before noon. That was a good thing, I had spent most of Sunday evening with an upset stomach. It even woke me in the middle of the night. I was rather tired, so a short workday was pretty much a good thing since I needed to get things done.

I did come back here first and ate a light lunch and changed my shirt. Then it was off to Family Services to check on my Medicaid. I think I got the problem fixed, or the fix started. The woman at the counter was a bit unclear.

Then I hopped the bus back towards town, only to stop at Payless. I stopped up on all that I could not eat during Lent. 

It looked like rain, so I stayed put. Then there was no rain. I still need to do laundry.

I had started working on my prison journal in the morning before work, and so I went back to it. About 4 pm, my neck was stiffening, and I was getting a headache. Time for a nap. I did, only to be awakened by a man standing in my hallway looking at me. This was around 4:30. He was the maintenance guy from the property company come to fix the light over the sink. That was all a bit embarrassing. Worse, I still had the headache and the stomach was still rolling. He got the light installed, and I went back to the prison journal. Look for that next week, I am only getting started on the packet after weeks of inaction.

In the background, I ran The Blacklist while working through my email. Some items I want to share.

 ‘The Leopard’: novel into film (The Article); a novel not read but a movie seen - Burt Lancaster was magnificent.

Who Were Those Gullible People Who Believed Donald Trump’s Bullsh*t? (The New Republic) does not really give the answer, but Michael Tomasky does writer:

But these other promises—that he’d bring peace to Ukraine in one day, that his tariffs would produce economic nirvana, that he’d lend a more sympathetic ear to the Palestinian plight—were ridiculous and obvious lies. Anyone who couldn’t see that was either brainwashed by right-wing media and social media or—well, or what?

It’s hard to say. Maybe those people’s instinct is to hate liberals. Maybe they believed all that “he’s a businessman” crap. Maybe they just didn’t want a woman in the White House. Whatever the case, they’re poor judges of character, and we—and this is a “we” that includes them—are about to pay a high price for their bamboozlement.

Could it be Americans are just too stupid for the world's good? 

Or have we been miseducated as part of the Right's long counter-revolution: The Long American Counter-Revolution (Boston Review)

Pope Francis died; Trump continues to pull down the American government; but I am trying hard to write on more than politics. Life is supposed to go on.

I woke up way too early this morning, feeling like I have Silly Putty for brains. I hope today will be successful for all of us.

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