yesterday i missed a perfectly good all-day drinking party

[thene]

and when I walked from one job to the other, after the power was back on, long after I'd quit even vaguely pretending to do any actual work for the Dingbat, the streets seemed much the same as ever but with less road rage, and all the people who were out and about were happy and relaxed and glad to see each other. I had already decided that Boston was doing it wrong, because I can be a haughty Londoner when I have to be. I always go back to what that one high court judge in the UK said a few years ago, while ruling that yes, people accused of terrorism do still have legal rights; these people 'do not threaten the life of this nation.' They are not worth our abandoning the city, not even for one day. I am looking forward to seeing an estimate of the economic cost, no joke. I want someone to stand up and explain why they think it was worth every wasted cent.

I DO have today off, and tomorrow, and I have no idea what other days, both jobs being in this weird transition state. I am going to a different drinking party and am taking cake, and I already cleaned the kitchen, and I need to iron everything ever, and get studying - I feel so very industrious.