10 morning thoughts, the day after the election started (it ain’t finished yet): 1. The Philadelphia vote-counting livestream is both immensely soothing and brilliant — THANK YOU to whichever social media person or election official decided to put it up. Particularly at a time when some are already questioning legitimacy, this is what the republic […]
By 10:30, it had become clear that we weren’t going to have an answer tonight, but I was still too wound up to go to bed. I ended up watching a few episodes of The Great Pottery Throwdown. It’s on HBO Max, and if you’re stressed right now, it’s totally worth signing up for the
Very choppy day. I do something, check FiveThirtyEight, do something else, check the NY Times needle, etc. and so on. I did manage to vote, hooray, but very little else has gotten accomplished today. I guess that’s okay. From fivethirtyeight: W.Va. »—D. Trump, projected winner Ind. »—D. Trump, projected winner Tenn. »—D. Trump, projected winner
Four years ago, I had a conversation with an older man, an immigrant with a serious, demanding job, a job where he saved lives, a man who didn’t pay a lot of attention to politics. He asked me if I wasn’t getting a little hysterical, when I said people would die if we elected Trump.
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Just for the record, I’m basically not even trying to think about anything other than the election today, and have communicated the same to my students, while encouraging them to go vote. I’m grateful my job allows me that flexibility. Today is a day for just trying to breathe and maintain a little composure. Maybe
Tomorrow is election day in America. I’ve been re-watching The West Wing all the way through — I have it half-memorized at this point, since this is at least my fourth rewatch. I’ve just gotten to the point where Republican Walken is saying to C.J Cregg that he truly believes “the things that unite us
Have just finished what I suspect will be my last annual budget board meeting for the Oak Park library, since it’s unlikely that I’ll run again for this seat in the spring. It’s been a tremendous education for me, learning what goes into running a big library (with two branches), and I just want to
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Took two hours out this morning to be part of a political gathering (via Zoom) about the spring local elections. Terrific, energizing group, really excited that we’re going to have some strong candidates (not incidentally, all people of color) to put forward soon. Watch this space.
The library is still determining if there’s an effective way we can support families this fall; we’ll know more after tomorrow night’s board meeting, fyi. I admit, it is more than a little worrying to me, that we might be deliberately choosing to bring people together in the library building(s) — but the alternative right
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Last night we had a Zoom library board special meeting to do anti-racist training. It’s funny — I do think and read and even teach about this stuff a lot, but still, I think I learned some things about myself last night. Setting aside time to work through issues and language as a group, with
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