I gotta be honest: everything feels vastly stupid right now. Tom and Ol returned home Wednesday night from an extended family trip to the Grand Canyon; both had Covid. On Thursday, Jack’s last day of school, they decamped to WV while J and I kept everything crossed that we would not get sick. What that means is that we haven’t spent any real time together since then whilst in the same house. This is vaguely stressful and depressing. He feels fine. I do not. Where are my PCR results? I dunno.

What I do know is that my sister and her kids arrived on Wednesday, and Oliver has not seen them at all, I have seen them briefly behind a mask, and lucky negative Jack got to spend the day with them.

What I do know is that the boys and I are supposed to leave for Maine on Thursday, as camp move-in is Friday. Oliver has to test negative on both Thursday and Friday to get to move in. He tested positive, again, today.

What I do know is that the Texas state GOP just enshrined into its platform that Biden didn’t win the 2020 election. This is bullshit, but the largest state GOP has decided it’s fact. Just for fun! Because, “alternative facts!” Which is shorthand for, “we’re snowball racing into fascism and about 3 Republicans care.”

What I do know is that a weekend we were all looking forward to was spoiled by Covid and that the idea that this is now endemic could really blow. Endemic like the flu is totally doable. Endemic like unless you mask and distance you get sick 3+x/year and it could lead to long-Covid is absolute shit. It’s like NOT life. And really, I think that is further indication of everything just breaking completely apart at the seams.

Today, some assholes in Tennessee had a White Lives Matter rally, and someone in Baltimore wrote and distributed a neighborhood-wide letter accusing a neighbor of decorating their yard in “relentlessly gay” fashion. “There are Christian children” here. Have y’all ever met a child who didn’t love a rainbow and twinkly lights? Also, it is 2022, private property, and NOT EVERYONE IS CHRISTIAN or straight, thank god.
Jack asked if we could decorate our house in relentlessly gay fashion, and I said, yes, absolutely. Truly, America is so goddamned stupid and pathetic in so many ways.

Because I am frustrated, pissed, repulsed, and glum, I share with you variously funny things I seem to have saved over the past year.

I recognize that “fuck” is the common, and frequent, thread uniting these saves (see also: asshole), but really, is anything far off? Rand Paul is SUCH an asshole; that turkey has accosted MANY a person; crypto is both dumb and an enormous environmental degradation; Marj and BoBo are twats, at best; no one is fine; and honest to god, if one of my children tries to explain Magic the Gathering or one of several video games once more, I will either A) die a la Yoda, or B) ugly cry like ScarJo.

These are basic, unassailable facts, and I’m sticking to them.