Greetings from Flyover Country

Hello Friends in the Computer,

Today’s edition feels like it’s is going to be a disjointed collection of thoughts hovering around a theme but never quit sticking the landing enough to be an official blog post, because THOSE of course I always meticulously plan and proofread to make sure all the logic is sound and words are spelled correctly.

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ANYWAY.

Happy third anniversary to the last time I worked in an office environment. I was so happy about getting a few weeks reprieve from my god-awful cubicle that I probably wasn’t fully appreciating the full possibilities of what was coming. We were told to work from home for two weeks and then they’d reassess. Someone knew someone who knew someone in government (the Deep State government not the collection of grifters and reactionaries in the old regime) who was predicting we’d be WFH until July which seemed like an impossibility but my fingers were crossed. I stopped at ALDI on the way home it wasn’t so much that the shelves of staples were cleared, but the fact that the parking lot was filled with carts that people didn’t bother to return to get their quarter back that made me suddenly feel like I was in a horror movie.

Things are back to normal…?

Things will never feel normal again…?

The old normal wasn’t that great to begin with…?

The only thing that I’m absolutely sure of is that most opportunities presented by a global pandemic to change things for a more inclusive and improved future were completely pissed away.

Coincidentally, I just had the most middle America couple of days that I’ve had since before March 2020.

[author note, went into perhaps excessive detail about what I’ve done over the last few days. Deleted that, since I’ve decided to not share my “how that relates to current events” later on in this post. Instead, have a selection of photos from that section in this photo array feature that I just realized I can do.]

This is where my thoughts get messy yet feel like they’re circulating around…something related to current events.

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You know what? I wrote a lot. Deleted it. Tried again. Deleted it. Couldn’t quite nail it.

Suffice it to say it was about community, how to be a good member of a community, and the tradeoffs you sometimes have to make for the protection of the same. But also how those in power tend to insist upon tradeoffs for others that they refuse to make themselves.

Is this about SVB? Stanford? Twitter? Trans rights? Abortion? Legal tech? UPL? The British Royal family?

Yes.

Anyway.

I don’t know if it can be chalked up to the bastardization of the concept of free speech , or social media FOMO, or both, but it seems a lot of people have a need to have an opinion on everything, and to put that opinion in writing in a public forum. I’ve been trying to break myself of that, so as far as that goes, I guess can consider this post a success.

Be well,

Sarah

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