It is the blight that man was born for, separating and thickening without clumps that you mourn for

[mallorys_camera]

So I continue fumbling along in this perfectly hideous mood. Not exactly sure what’s behind it. Stress? Exhaustion? Yesterday I went on a two hour crying jag because I’d misplaced a mostly used-up sheet of stamps. Stamps! You are ruining perfectly good mascara over $2.22, the little voice in my head told me sternly. But hey! what’s a little mascara when you’ve already ruined your life and in another 25 years you’re gonna be dead?

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[thewindrose.livejournal.com]

I think there might be something going around. In the last 2 days I've read four posts now where people are feeling depressed and they aren't sure why. Change in the weather, maybe? I haven't been depressed - just very bland. Not happy, not sad, not anything, almost on autopilot which isn't like me. Although yesterday I almost started a fight with my boyfriend because when I was following him home last night I got caught at a stop light and he dared to wait for me!! Fortunately I realized just in time what a stupid thing that was to get mad about. It still took me the rest of the drive home to shake it off though.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've noticed a vague brown cloud floating over lots of people's heads over the past couple of days.

I'm not sure I would describe myself exactly as an upbeat person, but I have a sense of humor and that helps. A lot. It's unusual for me to feel down two days in a row. For me a lot of it is really tied in with what's going on internationally right now, the revelations from the Abu Ghraib prison. They just sicken me. Some of the torturers were from the National Guard. I mean, these are not sociopaths who learned these skills in prison -- these are people who shop at Safeway just like I do. The analogies to what went on in Germany just before WWII -- these [insert ethnic slur of choice] are not really human so I can do whatever I want to them -- are inescapable.

[thewindrose.livejournal.com]

I was reading more about the torture incidents on the web last night. You know, it's to the point of where I don't want to admit that I am an American anymore. Michael and I were talking about doing some traveling overseas and I am seriously considering saying I'm a Canadian. I'm from Michigan, we're right next door - half the change in my wallet is Canadian. I could be from there.

I understand that some war crimes will happen every time there is a war. I realize that the aggressions of people who have been shot at and who's friends have been killed are likely to come out on the people they capture. But the things I've read about just sicken me, I would have thought we were a little beyond that.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I would have thought we were a little beyond that

Well, that's the reason I keep flashing on Sarajevo. I mean, it was a modern industrial city -- okay, a little shabby by U.S. standards -- but there were people with briefcases, a morning commuter rush. The goddamn Olympics! And now, it's utterly destroyed in the barbary of "ethnic cleansing." Makes you wonder what euphemisms and rationalizations that Virgina National Guard unit deployed for their actions in that Iraq prison.

[idylld.livejournal.com]

All I can say is, Me Too.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've been keeping up with your LJ.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I felt myself fighting off that kind of depression early in the week so I've filled every moment with plans. no crying jags yet, but they're lurking. Hope you feel better soon.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks! You too. The international situation has really got me down. And I don't see it getting better -- call me paranoid but I'm not even sure there will be an election in November.

[warhooligan.livejournal.com]

Me three!!