Catching up on LJ and there are lots of depressing things happening in the world.
The US government has purportedly assassinated the leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
I can’t actually find a specific post of patchworkkid’s to link to, as it’s all just full on, so go read it all.
zarabee pointed out the joy of the Bakhtiari family’s claims being true after all.
And on top of all that, my day sucked.
Maybe e_dan is right about the whole avoiding media thing.
On the other hand, good things:
Every so often, hawk_eye posts things that remind me why I fell in love with him.
From antiminke: Quick! There are still some words left in its pockets! [1]
Had coffee with Matt.
Daniel is wonderful.
The chiropractor made my back hurt less and did some sort of cranial massage thing that she said gave me better movement for the circulation around my head because I was very, very tense after nasty conversations and after she did that I felt like I was stoned for a little while.
[1] A reference to one of my favourite quotes about English: “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James D. Nicoll