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[kittydesade]

Oogh. So, yes, I made it through the protest. It was actually... it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. The first few minutes were very "My god it's full of old white people" but then we started getting a more diverse crowd. Someone brought a megaphone to direct chanting and crowds, mostly consisting of "Black Lives Matter" or "No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police", and we marched from the church to the center of downtown, such as it is. It's a tiny town, we have a tiny downtown. Then there were speeches from local people. The cops maintained A Presence, but it was a very low-key presence mostly consisting of two to four officers (depending on the size of the crowd? or just the area to walk, there's usually at least one bike/foot officer around downtown anyway) wandering around keeping an eye on things. They also halted traffic so we could cross streets, since it was a sidewalk march.

Anyway. So that went well. And afterwards I was not good for much, so I pretty much came home and curled up on the couch and watched TV and ... didn't do much of anything.

Sunday was more productive! There was house cleaning and we went and got a tree and a wreath for our door and things. We got lights for the tree, and I commented to the boy that I wondered if Mom still had our old boxes and boxes of ornaments. A few hours later as I'm chopping chicken for dinner and talking to Mom about how our various protests went, and I tell her we got and put up the tree and she says "Oh! I have a few boxes of those old ornaments." Completely fucking unprompted. My family is hilarious.

Monday happened, and Monday was half eaten by a migraine so all I managed to get done was endless language vocabulary quizzes, and now it is Tuesday. And yes, I have managed to do my Japanese, will do my Russian when I get home because I am a goober who forgot my book, and if I'm very lucky I can clear my day jobligations in time to get the last couple scenes of Nerd Girls drafted. My god it's full of edits. Or it will be. But still, a draft is better than nothing. I have to keep telling myself that or I'm going to go crazy when it comes time to rewrite it. And I need to get edits done on the other dime novel I want to release tomorrow (what the fuck tomorrow) and then I need ...

I need more time in the day is what I need. Or, once again (still) a week off work to get everything done that I need to get done. If only I didn't know that I'd come back to a shitpile of half done things. Oi. Right. Let's see how much of this I can get done today.

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[kikibug13]

They also halted traffic so we could cross streets
And this is where you know where they stand. Which is a good, good thing to know, especially when you live there.

*hugs tiiiight* This is the insanest time for retail. It's not you, it's the world.