Things in Book Six: Trying to Hold On 2019

(1) Life isn’t awesome.
(2) This weekend’s professional communications make my week murky at best
(3) The world is… messed up.
(4) But I’m excited to meet the cast of the play tonight and see which part I got.
(5) I will be morbidly laughing like an idiot if the role I get is “Recently Divorced Depressed Dentist”
(6) CNN said it best this morning:
“Here’s the situation. The nation’s leader has behaved in ways that experts have denounced as unconstitutional. His opposition is livid and calling for his removal, while many in the leader’s party slavishly attempt to justify his conduct. The media cannot stop talking about it. The general public hasn’t entirely made up its mind, but seem much less up in arms. Overall, in all likelihood, the leader’s potential breach of the law will yield no immediate consequences for him.

Now here’s the thing that’s truly mind-boggling. This week, that brief, damning summary describes the political reality of two of the world’s leading nations, both the United Kingdom and the United States.”