Eric Garner

Have you seen the political cartoon done in reaction to the grand jury decision to not indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner? The one showing Lady Liberty lying on the sidewalk, her scales and sword fallen next to her on the ground, as she gasps "I...can't...breath."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bramhall-cartoons-december-2014-gallery-1.2028602

This sums up my feelings. This is not ok. This is so very not ok. This makes me angry in ways I'm not used to being angry, even with the rampant systemic failures within law enforcment and public service in general. Not. Ok.

Doggies!!

Here's something completely different that doesn't make anything better, but at least it keeps me from sitting around in an unproductive fit of anger and sadness.

In fact, in all honestly, it may be impossible for me to feel unhappy while looking at this image.





That's Miles, a therapy dog who was at the UW-Parkside library today. More pictures of he and two others (Finnegan the Otter Hound and Paxton the Pug who was there yesterday) ( behind the cut. )

I'm Popular in Minneapolis...

I got an invitation on Fetlife to join a swingers group. In Minneapolis. Since that's about a six hour drive from here, I'd be puzzled even if my profile said anything about being a swinger. Which it doesn't. Not that I object to swinging; I just don't know if it would work for me and I don't want to jump into that scene at this point.

I sent a note back thanking him for the invitation, but saying that neither my partners nor I are swingers and I don't think that I'm the target audience for his group.

I'm still trying to figure out what *would* work for me in terms of taking a few steps into the kink community. I enjoyed the local munch I went to a few months ago, but I've been too busy to go back. I might start again in the new year, but I'm also likely to be moving away somewhere, so I can't help but wonder if it makes sense to start making social connections now. *sighs*

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I finished a draft of my personal statement for grad school. I still have more to do on it, and I have a take-home final to work on. But other than that, I'm kind of at loose ends. I feel like I should be doing something productive. I really do. But I just as badly want to just relax and not do much. But I don't want to keep sitting and refreshing social media like I've been doing off and on.

I think...I think I'm going to read something! I remember what that's like! Probably non-fiction still, but hey, baby steps.