Jasper Johns On the Side of a Barn
Oct. 6th, 2024 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraThis is the popular new campaign sign on the Walker Valley canvassing trail:
It joins these two standbys:
I don’t quite get the controversy surrounding Tim Walz’s military service. I mean, at least he has military service—unlike Trump, who was a draft dodger.
Apparently, Walz misrepresented something?
People do have a tendency to tell small lies about themselves & their experiences that often don’t stand up to the more scrupulous fact checks of the data superhighway.
At least he’s not on record saying soldiers who die in wars are suckers & losers.
Anyway, we—the few, the proud, the brave Shawangunk Dem canvassers—soldier (heh, heh, heh) on.
Nancy, my weekend canvassing partner, casually remarked she runs four and a half miles every morning.
“May I ask you a personal question?” I said. “How old are you?”
“Seventy-five,” Nancy said.
Seventy-five!
I stopped running—if you could even call it running—at 69.
Of course, Nancy is built like one of those Cretan bulldancers out of The King Must Die whereas evolution designed me to give birth in ditches & sub for the donkey when the donkey was feeling too indisposed to pull the cart to market. I’m a great big hulking peasant lass. I’m not really designed for activities that put too much weight on joints.
Still.
Nancy did put The Shame in me. (Inadvertently, of course! Nancy is the nicest person in the world.)
I really must exercise more.
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But I didn’t exercise more yesterday!
Instead, I came home from canvassing & promptly fell asleep.
I don’t much like taking naps. When I wake up from them, I always feel groggy & extremely out of it.
So, all I did yesterday after I awakened, was Remunerate (inefficiently) and mediate cat disputes.
At this point, I think Molly would be quite happy to drop territorial disputes, but Mabel is still angry at having her Only Cat status yanked.
The Fellliway is scheduled to arrive today.
It joins these two standbys:
I don’t quite get the controversy surrounding Tim Walz’s military service. I mean, at least he has military service—unlike Trump, who was a draft dodger.
Apparently, Walz misrepresented something?
People do have a tendency to tell small lies about themselves & their experiences that often don’t stand up to the more scrupulous fact checks of the data superhighway.
At least he’s not on record saying soldiers who die in wars are suckers & losers.
Anyway, we—the few, the proud, the brave Shawangunk Dem canvassers—soldier (heh, heh, heh) on.
Nancy, my weekend canvassing partner, casually remarked she runs four and a half miles every morning.
“May I ask you a personal question?” I said. “How old are you?”
“Seventy-five,” Nancy said.
Seventy-five!
I stopped running—if you could even call it running—at 69.
Of course, Nancy is built like one of those Cretan bulldancers out of The King Must Die whereas evolution designed me to give birth in ditches & sub for the donkey when the donkey was feeling too indisposed to pull the cart to market. I’m a great big hulking peasant lass. I’m not really designed for activities that put too much weight on joints.
Still.
Nancy did put The Shame in me. (Inadvertently, of course! Nancy is the nicest person in the world.)
I really must exercise more.
###
But I didn’t exercise more yesterday!
Instead, I came home from canvassing & promptly fell asleep.
I don’t much like taking naps. When I wake up from them, I always feel groggy & extremely out of it.
So, all I did yesterday after I awakened, was Remunerate (inefficiently) and mediate cat disputes.
At this point, I think Molly would be quite happy to drop territorial disputes, but Mabel is still angry at having her Only Cat status yanked.
The Fellliway is scheduled to arrive today.
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Date: 2024-10-06 02:19 pm (UTC)I'm in the camp that believes running is BAD for women, lol. But a good couple mile walk? I'm all about that!
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Date: 2024-10-06 02:26 pm (UTC)I think it's more about body type than gender. I ran for 40 years, though it was never my primary exercise. Bicycling was my primary exercise!
But I had a lot of friends who were runners, & running with them was a great way to socialize.
I def do not have the body type for running. 😄
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Date: 2024-10-06 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-07 09:30 am (UTC)I have friends who are Trump supporters. (I try very hard not to use politics as a way of choosing friends.) So long as they are supporting Trump for what I consider legitimate reasons—i.e. they agree with policies or platform positions—I'm okay with their support. We just don't discuss politics.
It's those people who support Trump for emotional reasons that I can't stand. It's as though they're part of some horrible cult.
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Date: 2024-10-07 11:37 am (UTC)