I'm frustrated and on-edge. I'm waiting for election results, and I'm waiting on my biopsy. If it's not why they think, h. pylori-- stomach ulcer bacteria, the diagnosis will enter the twilight zone.
It might seem like moderately inflamed stomach would be painful, and yes, I guess some people experience pain with it. Actually, the main symptom is the stomach acts like it doesn't know what it wants. At night, I'll go to bed and take Tums for reflux. Twenty minutes later, I'm starving and I eat literally like a pregnant woman: pickles and butterbread seem like Fillet Mignon. Fifteen minutes later, I go to bed, only to have reflux again. I have to pop Tums to quiet it down so I could sleep.Then I'll wake up with phlegm in my throat and no voice due to GERD. I have to take Tums again.
The election: 3 days. Just 3 more days. I said before that the texbanking is completely done. They try to persuade us to phone bank. I HATE PHONE BANKING. And I'm terrible at it. But I might go for it Tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday just to keep myself busy. I encourage everybody to vote for Nicole Galloway and a Democratic state Rep. She's so much better than Parson. I've made up my mind: I won't phone-bank after all, but I will donate. Galloway is so much better than Parson. Missourians voting for him over is like voting for Chester Arthur instead of George Washington (if we can break history a bit).
As for the elephant in the room, the Biden-Trump choice, I don't understand why any person in all of humankind would vote for Trump. It depresses me. I do believe that only the darkest cynicism explained it. The cynicism that started with Vietnam and Watergate, which has congealed since then.
But Charlie, people say, Trump's not that bad, and it's not the End of the World if he wins. He'll ignore both COVID, and far worse, climate change. If he wins, it will literally be The End of the World. The only question then is if you have the reserves of morbid curiosit--and the tolerance for grief-- necessary to stick around to witness it. I did the first time he won. I don't if I could find it in myself again.
The election: 3 days. Just 3 more days. I said before that the texbanking is completely done. They try to persuade us to phone bank. I HATE PHONE BANKING. And I'm terrible at it. But I might go for it Tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday just to keep myself busy. I encourage everybody to vote for Nicole Galloway and a Democratic state Rep. She's so much better than Parson. I've made up my mind: I won't phone-bank after all, but I will donate. Galloway is so much better than Parson. Missourians voting for him over is like voting for Chester Arthur instead of George Washington (if we can break history a bit).
As for the elephant in the room, the Biden-Trump choice, I don't understand why any person in all of humankind would vote for Trump. It depresses me. I do believe that only the darkest cynicism explained it. The cynicism that started with Vietnam and Watergate, which has congealed since then.
But Charlie, people say, Trump's not that bad, and it's not the End of the World if he wins. He'll ignore both COVID, and far worse, climate change. If he wins, it will literally be The End of the World. The only question then is if you have the reserves of morbid curiosit--and the tolerance for grief-- necessary to stick around to witness it. I did the first time he won. I don't if I could find it in myself again.
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