So, today I got irritated...
My Spanish Language hour, usually a benign and relatively entertaining Monday afternoon activity, was replaced by a field trip to the SU to listen to an extremely unnerving presentation on the fast approaching extension of the hideousness called NAFTA into Central America.
I'm not sure why... maybe just a buildup of the election, the republican rejoicing of my grossly ignorant/fascist hagen relatives and their soon-to-be brainwashed children, and the already demanding nature of the academic lifestyle have just crept up and crawled in dangerously close to my gag reflex. Not being able to just step back, breathe, and rebalance myself has given me a kind of socio-political vertigo that not even more cowbell can cure. Instead I've just started to get mad.
I've not yet decided how to deal with it all, but I have decided that as a start my family will be receiving Christmas gifts that I hope will continue to remind them of the short-sighted, selfish, money-grubbing policies that the government that we've had gifted to us is laying down as we speak.
This Christmas we'll be bypassing Christ's birth and instead reflecting on how he's being carried as the ultimate cop-out, get out of jail free, "lip service charity and goodwill" banner by a group bent on creating the most discriminatory, colonialist, irresponsible, intolerant, hate-motivated law.
whew! hope i can still stomach that post in a couple months...
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