You're not ok

You're not ok and it is unreasonable to expect yourself to be ok. Have you seen what is going on? Britain is under massive lockdown. The US is preparing for widespread violence. 

Not you Miffy. You're ok. :-)

My co-worker apologized and said she didn't understand why she was having so much trouble focusing, her neck hurt, her head hurt. I told her she was under stress, we are all under stress, people attacked her government, people tried to kill her lawmakers. She's been in countries where this has happened, she knows how badly this sometimes turns out, she's probably more stressed than the rest of us with no such experience. 

Tours are not allowed at the Capitol because of Covid. To be inside you have to work there or be let in by a Congressperson or a staff member. On January 5th there were tours. This was noted by Congresswoman Sherrill. She and 30 other Congresspeople signed a letter saying they noticed this and want an investigation into whether some of the Congresspeople were leading terrorists on recon trips. 

Approximately 20,000 troops have been mobilized for the inauguration, more than four times the number of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are troops sleeping in the Capitol building. 

Of course we're not ok. There would have to be something very wrong with us for us to be ok. 

We will be ok, but we have to get through a bit more before then. But please cut yourself some slack. We're going to be tired, we're going to be grouchy, our necks will hurt, our heads will hurt. We will cry. 

I finished a proposal that I dearly hope we win. This means of course that I'm second-guessing a lot of it. Cross your fingers for me. 

This is intentional movement with a stand of bamboo. We have a lot more bamboo than you might expect of Maryland, USA.