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So...here it is, 48 minutes before my Top Comments diary needs to be up in the queue to be formatted and I haven’t the slightest idea what this is going to say...so I will just...wing it for the next 47 minutes! (I type slooooow!)
What can I “scribble, scribble, scribble?”
I am so glad that I was approved for my unemployment and that I finally got those funds. Rent is paid up. I had already been told that I was in no danger of being evicted at this time but...still...I HAVE been homeless before, homelessness is just something that I DO not want to go through during a pandemic.
Especially since it seems as if this pandemic will NEVER end, at least here in the U.S.
So now I’ve been able to spend a little extra on some of my media subscriptions. Once upon a time, I wanted to be a journalist (I suppose that I can still do that!) and I love all of my various...duties here at Daily Kos. (I know, I do things like the Overnight News Digest and even the Sunday Pundit Round-up because I really do enjoy doing it...but I also feel as if it is my duty).
I rely on these publications for much of what I do. Within reason, I need to toss them a little something when I can.
I was reading earlier that a lot of the gyms in some of the wealthier parts of Dallas, Texas are packed with members. Whereas I work in a gym that was closed down a few days before Illinois went into shelter-in-place status and, other than a few outdoor classes, the gym is still closed here.
Then again, our COVID-19 curve has flattened and is sloping downward. The Texas curve continues to rise.
I prefer living in Illinois right now.
THAT...is a big thing at a powerhouse school like the University of Texas at Austin. Let’s see what happens. Even changing the fight song!
Look, as long as they don’t get rid of Bevo...although...one little tough someone might disagree!
Well...then again…
Seven minutes to go.
With everything that is going on in the world, it still seems to me like there’s more activity than actual lasting action that’s taking place. Things are changing...I guess...but how long will these changes (as far as police culture, anyways) last?
I still don’t trust it...the political moment...not quite yet.
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This comment by dmhlt 66 from this recommended diary (by Quebecois on Taylor Swift’s comments regarding Confederate statues) is a picture worth ten thousand words!
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