January:
- The President taunts the other idiot with nuclear weapons. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- I lose my wedding ring because I can’t stop taking it off and nervously playing with it due to the state of …well …everything. Husband doesn’t divorce me. Doesn’t get mad. Isn’t offended. In fact, he consoles me and says it’s okay. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Mudslides after fire season, cold spells, winter storms, painful medical tests, sick pets. 🔪❤️🔪❤️ 🔪❤️🔪❤️
February:
- Parkland High School shooting🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- Commercial corporations take a moral stand in response to Parkland ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- The President says something stupid about being “sad” that the FBI missed the signs for Parkland. Blames the error on the election investigation. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- Russians are indicted ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- My 20 + year-old hand-me-down bed breaks causing a massive expenditure of funds because now I am old and cannot sleep on crappy-hand-me-down beds anymore. Now I have back problems from hunching over, paying for adult things like student loans and alcohol. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
March:
- A beloved pet dies. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- Stormy Daniels appears on the national radar. A porn star who slept with the President. The fact that the President’s sex life is center-stage in our national news angers me in a way I cannot describe. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- Facebook is found to be shady again, but in the UK. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪
- The shooting of another unarmed black man, Stephon Clark, for holding what turned out to be a cell phone. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- The President gets in a Twitter war with Joe Biden over who is tougher. Like anyone wants to see the most anticlimactic fight since the last Steven Seagal movie was released.
- My dog does something cute. ❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
April:
- There was another shooting (the one at YouTube) 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 And another shooting (at a Waffle House—A FUCKING WAFFLE HOUSE—where people go to eat yummy, delicious, golden-brown carbs covered in sugar that comes from trees.) 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- My in-laws are not well. They are ill with diseases that affect the elderly, although they aren’t the “right” age yet. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- The President does another really stupid thing, letting the world know that an attack on Syria by the U.S. is imminent…or maybe we won’t attack at all. The U.S. isn’t my drunk college girlfriends, and Syria isn’t a club that we can’t decide whether to go to. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- Black people can’t barbeque in a park, use a restroom in Starbucks, sleep in a college common room, shop in stores, or work as a home inspector without the cops being called. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪
- My attitude becomes one of “fuck it”: it doesn’t matter anyway, why even write words because the whole world is going to shit. I want to quit graduate school but am stopped because a friend tells me that my words matter and that she wants to see me walk across that stage. My heart performs a grinch-like enlargement. ❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
- Then the Cosby thing goes down and my childhood is forever retroactively altered. 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
May:
- Another shooting at another high school, this time in Texas. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Morgan Freeman is accused of sexual assault. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Then Harvey Weinstein. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- More white people being racist about the protests against their racism.🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I get offered an editorship. Something I can sink into and emerge from when the world is a better place. ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
June:
- Another fucking shooting at another workplace. The newsroom at The Capital. I guess freedom of the press now means the privilege of bleeding for a byline. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Hundreds, thousands of voices rise up in protest about ICE separations. Their pleas fall on deaf ears. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- The President THROWS starbursts at Merkel. (Should I be grateful he didn’t call her “unexplainably juicy”?) 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 And then mocks and isolates a dying man (McCain). 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Koko dies and the last vestiges of my childhood are burnt to a fucking crisp. There’s no saving it. It’s just ashes.🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I get to see my chosen family who remind me that there are good, kind, caring people in the world. ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
- Then my computer literally catches fire. It smokes in my lap. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
July:
- While I’m finding out that I haven’t backed-up my burnt computer since March, both bicycles are stolen off our back patio. Money we don’t have goes to a replacement computer. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- The President threatens nuclear war with Iran saying “WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH.” Iran isn’t allowed to say “demented words” (whatever those are) of violence and death, but we can use those kinds of words against our own citizens and it’s all good. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪
- Family separations at the border intensify. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪
- Facebook is an asshole (again) 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪
- 17 people die in the duck boat. We can’t even have the fucking duck boat tour anymore. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- But my dog passes his intermediate obedience test, so there is that. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ which is quickly dwarfed by the fact that the entire state of California decides to light itself on fire.🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
August:
- Lots of racist shit goes down because Mollie Tibbetts is allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- THERE IS ANOTHER FUCKING SHOOTING (at a Madden gaming tournament! Playing video games won’t keep the kids safe anymore), and the President is just publicly stupid all the time. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Trump teaches us that: 1) The press is the enemy of the people, 2) Truth isn’t truth, 3) There are alternative facts, 4) He believes he controls the market which would, obviously, crash upon his impeachment, and 5) If you tape record what Trump says and use it against him, he will be mad that you were smart and he was stupid. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Oh– and California continues to burn, including my microwave, which spits out bright sparks while heating food.🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I run away from all the fires (personal and public) to Chicago. I find good friends, good food, and great theatre there. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
September:
- The Kavanaugh hearings 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- The Cosby sentencing. The outcry of people upset that he was even sentenced makes me so angry that my eyes want to pop out of their sockets. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- Our other computer dies. Nothing–not even the power of our yellow sun–will revive it. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- My body is so stressed out from life that it also stops functioning properly. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I run away to nature (what’s left of it) and enjoy not thinking about things like life and how crazy shit is right now. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
October:
- The President says the USPS is failing, terrorists prove him right by using it to mail pipe bombs. We can’t just disagree in this country anymore, we need to eviscerate each other. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪
- The Pittsburgh shooting. The realization that nothing is off limits. Nothing is sacrosanct or safe from violence especially places of worship where people try to find peace and understanding. 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I run away again to nature. I find bigger trees that dwarf this world in their enormity. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- My thesis is approved. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
November:
- Midterm elections ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- The President taunts Macron and the whole of France about the size of their – ahem – army. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- California burns again 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- ANOTHER FUCKING SHOOTING. This time at a bar where people go to, you know, dance, have fun, and unwind. It doesn’t matter if it’s in California, which is also burnt to a crisp. It could have been anywhere.🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- I write well. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Doggo is an advanced pupper now. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- I see the band that brought my husband and I together, playing again, ten years later. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
December:
- The Dow drops and continues to drop. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- The government shuts down and over a million people stop getting paid. 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- The President insults Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala because … (does it even matter why anymore?) 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪 🔪🔪 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
- People are interested in my writing. I graduate. I spend time with the people I love (and family, too). ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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- We reflect on 2018. We hope for a better 2019. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Oh—and my dog does something cute. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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