So I had the news on for a bit and the CBS news personalities were doing one of those ads supposed to "uplift" us (I can hear my dad sarcastically saying "they have their 'sincere shirts' on") and they made a comment about us figuring out the "new reality" together, and my immediate reaction was:
"I don't want a NEW reality. I want my OLD reality back. Now I realize my old reality was pretty damned good"
Yeah, the whole "you don't miss your water until your well has run dry" thing but yes, I would love to wake up some morning and have this all turned out to be a bad dream, I would happily truck off to class and do my teaching thing and write my exams and sit through all the silly meetings and worry about doing research not because I cannot do it but because it's hard to fit time in for it.
I don't know what the future is going to look like but I admit my fear of the unknown is strong, and when I don't know what the path forward is, I get stressed (All those dreams I had earlier in the year about driving in fog, or driving at night with no headlights. Were the prescient dreams, or is reality just now something that triggers my deepest fears and worries)
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Maybe more later. I have to eat and start the next chapter for Soils.
1 comment:
Hell, yeah! I've already tired of all the cheery talk - "We're in this together". My news consumption's WAY down. Because it's all the same, or worse. This one has it (Brian Stokes), that one (the guy from Fountains of Wayne) died (at age 52!)
And I'm irritated that "underlying conditions" has been so cavalierly thrown around. I think about half of Americans under 70 have underlying conditions -obesity or heart condition or asthma or cancer survivor or....
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