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Monday, November 30th, 2020 05:32 pm
( politics )

FYI, the test for COVID-19 antibodies came back negative. So... *shrug* What does it all mean? And will I be able to smell lavender again someday? Who knows.
I tried reading The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, but didn't get very far. It just didn't click for me. Same with And I Darken, by Kiersten White. It's an interesting miss because I found her Guinevere novel to be so compelling. Ah, well.

Currently re-reading Courtney Milan's The Duke Who Didn't, and wondering if the book misses have more to do with my own state of mind than with, well, anything else. I do have at least two other books downloaded that I ought to want to read, but I'm not feeling it for the moment.
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links (again): education, politics... Star Wars?!

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Friday, July 10th, 2020 04:12 pm
  • 9 things to make Black Lives Matter in our public schools  The disparity in funding education--even within a single state, much less across the nation--is a form of racism. American schools are notoriously underfunded, but nowhere more so than in schools that have a large population of students of color.
  • Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought
  • Want Schools Open In The Fall? All The Money In The World Can’t Solve These Problems

  • blog post: Nobody Asked Me: A Teacher’s Opinion on School Reopening
  • Changing subjects now: I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America (protests against racial inequities)
  • The Race-Hustler-in-Chief. Ten years ago President Obama tweeted in the mildest of terms about racism when Cornell West was arrested on the front porch of his own home. This opinion piece examines the difference in reactions then and now from right-wing demagogues.

  • REALLY changing the subject: What Happened to Finn’s Arc in TROS? (I’ve been saying for months that there was a big change in Boyega’s level of enthusiasm for episode IX from before the cast screening to after; the conclusion that much was left on the cutting room floor is unavoidable, even if you don’t find some of the production leaks plausible.)
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