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