It’s the end of my work week. I still have a meeting with my research assistants tomorrow though, so it’s not totally the end of my work week. But it is the end of my teaching for the week. I taught two classes, but one was in two parts and the other had a main class and then three labs that all had to be taught also. So it’s really like, five events over three days. But what is cool about this is it’s closer to a full time schedule than just one class at a time. So I am going to see what it’s like to have that kind of workload. So far so good! I’m tired, but relatively gruntled. So that’s good.

It’s been really awful seeing what is happening in the US right now. I feel for everyone who is being terrorized by ICE right now. And I also feel bad that they don’t have a true opposition party. We have similar issues up here with our political system, but at least we have more than two parties. It’s really heartbreaking to see all the violence there. I watched the video from the ICE Agent’s point of view of the murder of Renee Good and I can tell he made the decision to shoot her based on his anger at her wife for making fun of him. He wanted to punish Becca by shooting her wife and its so chilling. And the fact that he moved his phone to his other hand so he could reach for his gun shows it was premeditated murder, not self defense at all. It’s just all gross. And lesbophobic. It’s disturbing.

Fascists need to go to hell. I think the problem was after WW2 when the nazi’s largely got away with their crimes. I know there were trials of high level nazis, but a lot of lower level party faithful still moved on with their lives and continued even being judges and things. I don’t know what should have happened. But this shit goes down and people tend to get away with it. Like those rapist priests and nuns got away with it here in Canada. They even put a clause in that we couldn’t charge them criminally to get the common experience payment.

Anyway, what do I have to say about my life? My health has improved a lot since I got on these antibiotics. Someone send me some money so I was able to get real groceries. I taught all my classes for the week and got the dogs some food. I have two weeks until I get paid. I’m looking into more teaching work for next year so we’ll see how that goes.

I get to go to Helsinki in May so I’m looking forward to that. I know nothing about Finland. I guess I am going to learn!

I have some editing to do myself on my film so I can meet a deadline to get maybe more money to finish it. So I will probably work on that this weekend also. I am also going to take some time off to do beading. I am practicing singing still and have a recital coming in a couple weeks. I will be singing Do I Wanna Know. So that’s going to be fun! I have not sung alone in public, except I guess I sang and played guitar last year at that guitar recital. And I am not playing guitar for Do I Wanna Know. I’ve looked at some of the tabs for that song but he actually plays it on a twelve string guitar so I don’t know how accurate I could get with a six string guitar. I know logically they all have the same notes though.

I found a chocolate edible from Christmas in my fridge, so I’m going to wrap up this blog now and go chill out. I definitely need to put my feet up.